#Overview
This library allows you to quickly and easily include Trimet -- the public transit system of Portland, Oregon -- transit arrival information to your application. The information is obtained via REST commands from their transit tracker site and returned to you as easy to use objects. More information about the API is at Trimet's developre site.
#Requirements
Any application that makes use of Trimet's API requires that developer to register a developer key. This allows them to better check who is using the resources that they provide free to the public. It also allows them to squelch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in case there's a bug in an app that ends up hammering their servers.
Having a general developer ID that is embedded in the library is a generally bad idea, in that the actions of one developer could end up locking out all other developers. For this reason, you will need to ask for your own developer key.
#Future Direction
- Other query types. Currently this only hits the arrivals API, but there are geolocation APIs that look fun.
- Verify things other than buses. I'm not sure if or how well this works with, for instance, Max trains.