Getting Realtime Transit Data from the STM API using Python looked at getting realtime transit data and displaying it in a notebook.
This post explores saving the same data to a Polars DataFrame so it's easy to analyze. I like working with Polars because it has a really intuitive API.
When we queried the STM Realtime API in Getting Realtime Transit Data from the STM API using Python, this is what the content we got back looked like:
I recently used one of the Realtime data APIs provided by Société de transport de Montréal (STM) to get data about bus locations using Python.
This was my first attempt at working with transit data and I learned a lot. In this post, I share what I learned as a tutorial.