# Magic Bus (U-M Transit) BusTime API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/magic-bus/  
**Provider:** University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/  
**Base URL:** https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/bustime/api/v3  
**Documentation:** https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/

Magic Bus (U-M Transit) BusTime API is one of 7 APIs that [University of Michigan-Ann Arbor](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Transit, Campus Life, Real-Time, Gated, and BusTime. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Real-time campus transit API for U-M's Magic Bus service, served from a U-M host on Clever Devices BusTime. Live and gated by an API access key — GET /bustime/api/v3/getroutes and /bustime/api/v3/gettime both returned HTTP 200 text/xml with "<bustime-response><error><msg>No API access key supplied</msg></error></bustime-response>" on 2026-08-19. No public self-service key issuance page was found. The rider-facing app at the root is an Angular single-page application. One of the few genuinely small, institution-run campus-life surfaces U-M has.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://mbus.ltp.umich.edu/

## Other University of Michigan-Ann Arbor APIs (6)

- [Deep Blue Documents OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/deep-blue-documents-oai/)
- [U-M Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/shibboleth-idp/)
- [U-M ITS API Directory](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/api-directory/)
- [Deep Blue Data REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/deep-blue-data/)
- [Materials Commons](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/materials-commons/)
- [Canvas LMS (U-M tenancy on Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor/canvas-lms/)

## Tags

Transit, Campus Life, Real-Time, Gated, BusTime

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