Historic Route/Schedules: Download Transitfeed GTFS

[EddyIonescu]

Write a script that, given a date and agency, downloads the appropriate GTFS from TransitFeeds and uploads it to S3. It doesn't download anything from TransitFeeds if the GTFS is already in S3. This script would be deployed to run before save_routes does.

Is an extension of #642 but could be done concurrently

[EddyIonescu]

Once this and #642 are done modify save_routes to get the appropriate GTFS from S3 instead of downloading the latest directly from the agency by default (ie. when a date isn't provided, meaning it's the current date)

[architec]

hi I'm interested. Could you assign this issue to me?

[EddyIonescu]

Hey @arctdav have you joined our Slack channel and Github organization? If so then you can assign it to yourself. Note that it'd have to be written in Python (and for this PR you could test it on your personal S3 until the PR's approved).
Note that a naming convention like the one in #638 should be used.

[architec]

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[architec]

@EddyIonescu two questions

1. what directory should the GTFS store after download?
2. what file name should the script be?
3. are there any existing helper function for API calls from TransitFeed for this project?

[architec]

Seems to me that transitfeeds.com/api/swagger/#!/default/getLatestFeedVersion isn't working. For example if I pass feed ID "aachener-verkehrsverbund/836" with my key, it says "no response from server". However I assume we use the URL this API responded to download file?

[architec]

@EddyIonescu @Brian-Lee

[Brian-Lee]

@arctdav @EddyIonescu I think I know the problem. When using the "Try it out" button at https://transitfeeds.com/api/swagger/#!/default/getLatestFeedVersion, the result is "no content." This appears to be a bug. However, if you copy the link generated there in the "Request URL" field, you can successfully use that link by pasting it into a browser. It will go ahead and start a download of a gtfs zip file.

[architec]

@EddyIonescu PR created, waiting for review