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Bike points

GET /BikePoint returns Santander Cycles (cycle hire) docking stations with locations and availability. It's one of the operations in the API playground.

OpenAPI description (playground scope)

Download tfl-playground.json — includes all playground operations.

Resource

A bike point is a docking station. The live API returns identifiers, names, coordinates, and fields for available bikes and empty slots (exact property names vary; parse defensively).

Operation

MethodGET
Path/BikePoint
Base URLhttps://api.tfl.gov.uk

Parameters

None required for this list operation on the public API.

Responses

CodeDescription
200Success — JSON array of bike point objects.
429Rate limited — slow down; see Authentication.
500Server error — retry with backoff.

Example request

curl "https://api.tfl.gov.uk/BikePoint"
  • Quickstart — runs this operation as step 3
  • Search stops — companion playground operation for stop search