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caltrain API for agents (unofficial) — JSON over curl

Caltrain (San Francisco Peninsula commuter rail): real-time departures per station, GTFS-realtime trip updates and vehicle positions, service alerts, routes, station pages and site search as JSON commands.

Host: caltrain.com. Call these verified read commands with plain curl; no install, key, or account. Use the public JSON API with plain curl. No install, key, account, or browser is needed. Start with San Francisco and U.S. agent tasks: events, startup jobs, BART and Muni departures, Craigslist listings, local news, public datasets and prediction markets. Example: curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/search?q=SF+tech+events'. Responses are one JSON object. The hosted MCP and GitHub repo are also available.

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Commands

`get-station-departures`

Real-time departure predictions for one Caltrain station, with metadata for the routes serving it (Local, Limited, Express, South County). Params: stopId* Read-only

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/caltrain/get-station-departures?stopId=palo_alto'

`list-service-alerts`

Current Caltrain service alerts: delays, disruptions and notices, with their active periods. Params: none Read-only

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/caltrain/list-service-alerts'

`get-trip-updates`

GTFS-realtime trip updates for trains currently running: trip id, route, direction and predicted arrival/departure per stop. Params: none Read-only

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/caltrain/get-trip-updates'

`list-routes`

All Caltrain routes/service types (Local Weekday, Limited, Express, South County…) with route id, color and path. Params: none Read-only

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/caltrain/list-routes'

`get-station`

Station detail page (address, parking, amenities, zone) by station slug. Params: slug* Read-only

curl 'https://clify-dev.netlify.app/caltrain/get-station?slug=paloalto'

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