Bird Discovery API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Bird GBFS Feed Discovery API
  version: 2.3.0
  summary: Bird's Public General Bikeshare Feed Specification Feed
  description: OpenAPI description of Bird's public General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) v2.3 surface hosted at https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/{city}. Each Bird city exposes the same nine GBFS sub-feeds — gbfs (auto-discovery), gbfs_versions, system_information, vehicle_types, free_bike_status, station_information, station_status, geofencing_zones, system_pricing_plans, and system_regions — with a 60-second TTL. Bird operates 88+ city feeds across Austria, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Israel, Italy, Portugal, and the United States. Data is licensed under Bird's GBFS Data License Agreement.
  contact:
    name: Bird Government Partnerships
    email: city@bird.co
    url: https://www.bird.co/cities
  license:
    name: Bird GBFS Data License Agreement
    url: https://www.bird.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/GBFS-Data-License-Agreement-2018-09-25.pdf
servers:
- url: https://mds.bird.co/gbfs/v2/public/{city}
  description: Bird GBFS public feed for a given city
  variables:
    city:
      default: los-angeles
      description: City slug for the desired Bird market. Examples include los-angeles, madrid, barcelona, helsinki, munich, ulm, calgary, edmonton, ottawa, halifax, antwerp, zurich, basel, biel, ulm, wienerneustadt. The canonical list lives in the MobilityData systems.csv at https://github.com/MobilityData/gbfs/blob/master/systems.csv.
tags:
- name: Discovery
  description: GBFS auto-discovery and version metadata
paths:
  /gbfs.json:
    get:
      operationId: getGbfsDiscovery
      summary: Get GBFS Auto-Discovery
      description: Returns the GBFS auto-discovery document listing every sub-feed available for this Bird city, with URLs and feed names. Per GBFS v2.3, the response is wrapped in language-keyed feeds objects.
      tags:
      - Discovery
      responses:
        '200':
          description: GBFS auto-discovery payload
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GbfsDiscovery'
  /gbfs_versions.json:
    get:
      operationId: getGbfsVersions
      summary: List GBFS Versions
      description: Lists the GBFS specification versions supported by this Bird city feed.
      tags:
      - Discovery
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Supported GBFS versions
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GbfsVersions'
components:
  schemas:
    GbfsVersions:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GbfsEnvelope'
      - type: object
        properties:
          data:
            type: object
            properties:
              versions:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  required:
                  - version
                  - url
                  properties:
                    version:
                      type: string
                    url:
                      type: string
                      format: uri
    GbfsDiscovery:
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/GbfsEnvelope'
      - type: object
        properties:
          data:
            type: object
            additionalProperties:
              type: object
              properties:
                feeds:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: object
                    required:
                    - name
                    - url
                    properties:
                      name:
                        type: string
                      url:
                        type: string
                        format: uri
    GbfsEnvelope:
      type: object
      required:
      - version
      - data
      - last_updated
      - ttl
      properties:
        version:
          type: string
          description: GBFS spec version (e.g. "2.3")
        last_updated:
          type: integer
          format: int64
          description: POSIX timestamp at which the data was last updated
        ttl:
          type: integer
          description: Seconds before the consumer should re-fetch this feed
        data:
          type: object