SBB does not work about tripkit HOT 5 CLOSED

@ myself: use either https://timetable.search.ch/api/help or https://blog.marudor.de/SBB-Apis/

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See this gist for list of SBB api requests.

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So the SBB api which is being used by the official apps unfortunately does not return intermediate stops for route requests and requires an additional http request for every trip instead.

Seeing that timetable.search.ch returns similar search results and, more importantly, has an official documentation, I am inclined to implement that instead. However, there are a few methods missing from their api:

• refresh trip is not available
• journey details (line route) is not available
• query earlier trips is realized by using the pre= parameter instead of a session context
• some missing real-time data

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I did some preliminary implementation of the native SBB api (/sbb) as well as the search.ch api (/searchch), but both apis unfortunately don't seem to really match the desired feature set of TripKit. Here's what I've found out:

SBB:

• authorization is unnecessarily complicated, but doable
• refresh trip, journey details and query later/earlier is supported
• but: there is no way to find out the names of the most basic parameters, like for example the time for queryDepartures. The api is so tightly coupled to their app, I don't even know if they support different times for departures etc.

SearchCH:

• no api authorization, public api documentation
• apart from listing all request parameters, the documentation of the api responses leaves out many important notes and edge cases
• many features aren't supported (see above), but most notably it seems like it isn't possible to do trips from/to coordinates?

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Update regarding SearchCH: coordinates are supported by supplying the lat/lon in WGS84 format, e.g. 46.961511,7.432251

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