Indonesia Transit Scraper — KAI Stations & TransJakarta BRT
Indonesia Transit Scraper — KAI Stations & TransJakarta BRT
Extract Indonesian public transit data from two verified public sources:
- KAI (PT Kereta Api Indonesia) — complete station catalog: 217 stations across Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. Each record includes the 3-letter station code, full name, city, and regional classification.
- TransJakarta BRT — all corridor listings from Jakarta's bus rapid transit network (one of the world's longest BRT systems). Each record includes corridor number, direction, and a link to the official route map image.
Output Fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
record_type |
kai_station or transjakarta_route |
operator |
KAI or TransJakarta |
service_type |
intercity_rail or brt |
station_code |
KAI 3-letter station code (e.g. GMR, BD, SBI) |
station_name |
Full station name (e.g. GAMBIR, BANDUNG) |
city |
City name |
city_code |
Internal city identifier from KAI catalog |
region |
Kabupaten / kota administrative region |
line |
TransJakarta corridor (e.g. 1 | BLOK M - KOTA) |
direction |
Route direction text |
route_map_url |
URL to TransJakarta official corridor map image |
source_url |
Source URL for the record |
scraped_at |
ISO 8601 scrape timestamp |
Input
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
operator |
select | any |
Filter by source: any, kai, or transjakarta |
maxItems |
integer | 15 |
Cap on total records returned |
Data Sources
KAI Stations: The actor fetches booking.kai.id/api/stations2 (KAI's official booking portal JSON API). This endpoint returns the complete station catalog without authentication. A CSRF token is extracted from the booking portal home page and included in the request as required.
TransJakarta BRT: The actor fetches transjakarta.co.id/peta-rute and parses the corridor listing from HTML. Each corridor is identified by a data-caption attribute in the format "N | DIRECTION" with a link to the official route map image hosted at smk.transjakarta.co.id.
What's Not Covered
Several sources from the original spec were investigated but are out of scope:
- KAI train schedules — the
/searchendpoint is behind a Cloudflare managed challenge - Pelni inter-island ships —
pelni.co.idwas unreachable (connection timeout) at build time - Whoosh KCIC, MRT Jakarta, LRT Jabodebek, RedBus — all use JavaScript SPAs with no accessible public API surface
Usage
For the complete KAI station catalog (217 stations), set maxItems to 250 or higher. For all TransJakarta corridors (31 routes), set maxItems to 50 or higher after selecting the transjakarta operator.
The default maxItems: 15 is designed for fast test runs.