with the VBB GTFS/GTFS-RT feeds, it seems that no RT fetching/validation is ever happening

[derhuerst]

I'm trying to validate the VBB realtime feed (https://production.gtfsrt.vbb.de & https://www.vbb.de/vbbgtfs).

It seems like the Schedule data has been imported, and I see a log message about the RT feed, but the UI doesn't show any fetchings/validations. :confusing

[qtp497104907-18] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - Downloading GTFS data from https://www.vbb.de/vbbgtfs...
[qtp497104907-18] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - GTFS zip file downloaded successfully
[qtp497104907-18] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - GTFS URL is new - saving metadata to database...
[qtp497104907-18] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - Loading GTFS from downloaded zip file on disk to memory...
[qtp497104907-18] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - Writing GTFS data to database...
[qtp497104907-17] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - Downloading GTFS data from https://www.vbb.de/vbbgtfs...
[qtp497104907-17] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - GTFS zip file downloaded successfully
[qtp497104907-17] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - GTFS URL already exists exists in database - checking if GTFS data has changed...
[qtp497104907-17] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsFeed - GTFS data hasn't changed since last execution
[qtp497104907-22] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.api.resource.GtfsRtFeed - https://production.gtfsrt.vbb.de/data is a valid GTFS-realtime feed
[pool-3-thread-1] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.lib.validation.GtfsMetadata - Building GtfsMetadata for https://www.vbb.de/vbbgtfs...
[pool-3-thread-1] INFO edu.usf.cutr.gtfsrtvalidator.lib.validation.GtfsMetadata - Processing trips and building trip shapes for https://www.vbb.de/vbbgtfs...

[rudiejd]

The same thing is happening to me while trying to validate the MBTA GTFS-realtime feed against the static feed. No warnings on the page, but in my case I get a stack trace:

@davidgamez (or anyone else from the mobility data org...) is this fork still supported? Seems like it hasn't been touched for about a year, and the webapp doesn't seem to work locally. We'd love to have a way to validate GTFS-RT at the MBTA in the same way that we validate the static feed. I'm happy to put in some work on this project, but I just wanted to make sure there's not another validator somewhere out there.

[davidgamez]

Hi @rudiejd, thanks for raising this. Although there haven’t been many visible updates in this repository, it is still maintained. As a small in-house team working across multiple open-source initiatives with different tech stacks and requirements, we have to distribute our focus carefully.
That said, we definitely welcome contributions and efforts to improve the tooling we maintain. If you’d like to put in work here, that would be very valuable. There isn’t another GTFS-RT validator project from us at the moment, so this is the right place to start.