Real Time Encoding

Hi,

Ran into a bit of an issue with the encoding of the real time data. No issues with requesting the data with GET, but the data comes back all funny. I believe some other people have asked about this before, but I can’t seem to find any solution…

I’ve tried using “Advanced REST Client” in Chrome and the response looks like this: (same data looks funny in Notepad++ too, with all different encoding settings)

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106N.1419.111.124.T.8.43460953 *NL_2a

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'2843.2844.2845.2846.2847.2848.2849.2850.20:59 North Sydney Station to Central Station �
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11-S.1419.111.56.M.8.43460077 *BL_1b

When trying with HTTPWebRequest in VB.NET, I receive no errors, but it just cuts off at:

1.0

I’ve tried using some website that does decoding, but had no luck with it as it doesn’t decode to JSON…
Also tried using encoding: null in the request as a header, but that has no difference at all. So all I have in the header is the bearer.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

The GTFS Realtime data is in Protocol Buffer format, see Protocol Buffers  |  Google Developers for more info.

Any reason you were expecting JSON?