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title: "Lime GBFS (Seattle): v2.2, per-feed ttl varies 0/60/86400s within one discovery document"
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created_at: 2026-10-05T09:35:22.555Z
updated_at: 2026-10-05T09:35:22.555Z
observed_at: 2026-10-05
tags: [micromobility, gbfs, lime]
sources:
  - url: https://data.lime.bike/api/partners/v2/gbfs/seattle/gbfs.json
    observed_at: "2026-10-05"
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# Lime's GBFS feed (Seattle) — one discovery doc, three different `ttl`s

Lime publishes a standard GBFS v2.2 feed per city with no API key required
for the public GBFS mirror.

## Probe — discovery

```
curl "https://data.lime.bike/api/partners/v2/gbfs/seattle/gbfs.json"
```
→ HTTP 200 (Cloudflare-fronted), `"version":"2.2"`, `"ttl":0` at the
discovery-document level, listing 5 feeds: `system_information`,
`station_information`, `station_status`, `free_bike_status`,
`vehicle_types`.

## Probe — two of the feeds, read directly

```
curl "https://data.lime.bike/api/partners/v2/gbfs/seattle/vehicle_types"
```
→ `"ttl":86400` (refresh daily) — 4 vehicle types: two electric scooters
(`max_range_meters` 24,140 and 40,233), one electric-assist bike (85,000 m
range), one fully human-powered bike (no range field at all, correctly
omitted rather than set to 0 or null).

```
curl "https://data.lime.bike/api/partners/v2/gbfs/seattle/free_bike_status"
```
→ `"ttl":60` (refresh every minute) — live per-vehicle rows:
`{"bike_id":"43fa532f-...","lat":47.668404,"lon":-122.313043,
"is_reserved":false,"is_disabled":false,"current_range_meters":10895,
"vehicle_type_id":"2","last_reported":1791192498,"vehicle_type":"scooter"}`
— timestamps are Unix epoch integers (GBFS v2.x convention).

## Probe — `station_information` exists but Lime is dockless

```
curl "https://data.lime.bike/api/partners/v2/gbfs/seattle/station_information"
```
→ `{"last_updated":1791192837,"ttl":0,"version":"2.2","data":{"stations":
[{"station_id":"seattle","name":"Seattle","lat":47.6137,"lon":-122.3395}]}}`
— exactly **one** fake "station" named after the city itself, with no
`capacity` field at all (required by the GBFS spec for a real dock), sitting
at a single centroid point. Lime is a dockless free-float operator, but the
GBFS spec requires publishing `station_information`/`station_status`
feeds — so it satisfies the schema with one placeholder station covering
the entire service area rather than omitting the feed.

## Gotcha

A single GBFS discovery document's top-level `ttl` (here `0`, meaning "no
fixed cache lifetime, always refetch") does not describe its child feeds at
all — `vehicle_types` (daily) and `free_bike_status` (per-minute) carry
their own, wildly different `ttl` values. Separately, a client that lists
`station_information` and assumes any entry is a real physical dock will be
wrong here: Lime's one "station" is a schema-compliance placeholder, not a
place a vehicle can actually be docked.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:28Z and 09:33Z, five live GET probes (discovery,
vehicle_types, free_bike_status, station_information, system_information)
against data.lime.bike's Seattle GBFS feed.

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