sumitgouthaman / onebusaway-tracker-chrome

Handy little extension for monitoring bus stops near you for arrival times of upcoming buses.
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Deprecated

I decided to abandon this and re-write with Angular 2 and material design. Refer: https://github.com/sumitgouthaman/onebusaway-chrome-angular2

OneBusAway Tracker Chrome extension

This is a handy little extension that lets you monitor bus stops near you for arrival times of upcoming buses.

Bug Fixes / Features / Documentation contributions welcome.

Screenshot

Extension popup

OneBusAway

How to run the extension

  1. Make sure your local transit agency uses OneBusAway. This might be mentioned on their website. For eg. here's Sound Transit's open transit data website.
  2. Update app/apikey.js with the API_URL and KEY.
    1. For Sound Transit the API_URL is https://api.pugetsound.onebusaway.org. This may vary based on your local transit agency. Check their website for details.
    2. The KEY can be obtained by emailing your local transit agency. For Sound Transit, send an email to OBA_API_Key@soundtransit.org.
  3. The app folder contains the extension code. You can load this in chrome as an unpacked extension by following the instructions here.