angelosaadeh/velib

Vélib' Métropole station status, every minute (unofficial)

Bikes (mechanical and electric) and free docks at every Vélib' Métropole station (about 1,520), recorded about once a minute from the operator's open GBFS feed since 2026-10-27. One Parquet file per day (Europe/Paris), plus a station table. Each day is uploaded once complete.

Files and columns

snapshots/YYYY-MM-DD.parquet

One file per Europe/Paris day (DST days hold 23 or 25 hours). One row = one station in one snapshot, sorted by station_id, then src_ts. About 2.2 million rows and 2–3 MB per day.

column	type	meaning
src_ts	int64	feed timestamp (lastUpdatedOther), Unix seconds, UTC; shared by all rows of a snapshot
station_id	int64	station id; join key with stations.csv
bikes	int16	bikes available (num_bikes_available)
docks	int16	free docks (num_docks_available)
mechanical	int16, nullable	mechanical bikes among bikes
ebike	int16, nullable	e-bikes among bikes
last_reported	int64	last_reported as published by the feed, Unix seconds, UTC
is_installed	int8 (0/1), nullable	feed flag
is_renting	int8 (0/1), nullable	feed flag
is_returning	int8 (0/1), nullable	feed flag

stations.csv

One row per station in the latest station_information feed; rebuilt with every upload.

column	meaning
station_id	join key with the snapshots
station_code	operator's station code
name	station name
lat, lon	coordinates (WGS84)
house_number, street, postal_code, city	nearest address from reverse geocoding; may be empty or approximate
capacity_official	capacity from the feed
observed_capacity	max(bikes + docks) seen over all published days
capacity_gap	capacity_official − observed_capacity
geocoded_at	UTC date the address was fetched

Notes

Collection started on 2026-10-27 at 10:34 Paris time, so that day is partial. Values are kept as published: nothing is corrected or filled in.

• Snapshots are not evenly spaced. Missing minutes are absent (no placeholder rows), and the feed sometimes publishes the same counts again a few seconds later under a new src_ts. Check the spacing of src_ts before computing per-minute rates.
• mechanical / ebike are null for every station in some snapshots; bikes and docks are still given.
• last_reported can be stale even for working stations.
• Past days can be revised if missing snapshots are recovered; use the commit history to pin a version.

How to load it

import pandas as pd

day = pd.read_parquet("hf://datasets/angelosaadeh/velib/snapshots/2026-10-28.parquet")
day["time"] = pd.to_datetime(day["src_ts"], unit="s", utc=True).dt.tz_convert("Europe/Paris")
stations = pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/angelosaadeh/velib/stations.csv",
                       dtype={"station_code": str, "postal_code": str})

from datasets import load_dataset

some_days = load_dataset("angelosaadeh/velib", data_files="snapshots/2026-10-2*.parquet", split="train")
stations = load_dataset("csv", data_files="hf://datasets/angelosaadeh/velib/stations.csv", split="train")

Sources and licence

Released under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). You may copy, redistribute, adapt and use it commercially, provided you credit this dataset and the sources below, with their update dates.

Suggested credit: Vélib' Métropole station status, every minute (unofficial), Angelo Saadeh (https://www.angelosaadeh.fr), https://huggingface.co/datasets/angelosaadeh/velib, data from Vélib' Métropole (GBFS) and the Base Adresse Nationale, accessed YYYY-MM-DD (revision [commit hash], if pinned).

• Station data: Vélib' Métropole (Smovengo / Syndicat Autolib' et Vélib' Métropole), GBFS feeds station_status and station_information, from the open data page, under the Etalab Licence Ouverte. Each row's src_ts is the feed's update time.
• Addresses: reverse-geocoded with the Géoplateforme geocoding service (IGN), based on the Base Adresse Nationale (Licence Ouverte 2.0); fetch dates in geocoded_at. These are the nearest addresses, not addresses published by Vélib' Métropole.

Changes from the source data: reformatted from JSON snapshots to daily Parquet files, duplicate snapshots removed, columns renamed and bike types flattened (see the tables), unused fields dropped, and capacity and address columns added to stations.csv.

Disclaimer

Independent dataset, not affiliated with or endorsed by Vélib' Métropole, Smovengo, IGN or any public body. Provided as is, without warranty; it may contain gaps from outages and errors from the upstream data. Questions: www.angelosaadeh.fr.