The Property Railway Station API is a means to access the location of Australian railway stations. For most users, this information isn't necessary nor relevant, but many have technical skills that permits them to integrate various types of data with their existing applications. The API itself is used extensively by the Yabber property modules.
Property Module: Yabber's Property Module is extensive. The module makes property listing, analytical, and other data available to you, your child users, and partners. A large number of APIs may be used to access data for other applications. Review an introduction to the Property Module here. A commonly referenced FAQ details how to include a Property Listing Widget on your website, and another details how to assign a property to an existing widget location.
Property API Key: The Property API Key is different to your standard 'Personal' API Key and must be accessed through the Property Module 
(and then saved on your website ). The Property Module is a completely standalone module that integrates directly with Yabber. Basic API Documentation introducing the Property API may be found here.If you would like to access the API programmatically, you may reference a basic PHP function here.
The primary purpose of the API is to make distance information available to property widgets (such as distances to nearest stations etc.) and to provide general information on user websites via a search engine.
Property API Endpoint
The Endpoint for all requests to the Property API is structured as follows:
api.beliefmedia.com/property/{category}?/{action}.json?apikey={apikey}
The preferred method of authentication of your API Key is in the Authorisation Header (Authorization: Bearer {token}) as support for the URL parameter will soon be deprecated. Requests to child datasets will always include a {category} while the primary (listing) property endpoint is accessed directly. More information on the Property API is available here.
Introduction
The Railway Station API is a very simple RESTful service that provides a facility to query Australian rail stations. Queries to the Rail API are made to property/rail/{action}.json with the various 'actions' detailed in this FAQ. Each action and typical responses will be introduced in turn.
Data is updated on the first Monday of each week.
State
The state action returns all stations within a particular state. The purpose is to provide a package that you can query individually and cache locally. A request to rail/state.json?state=nsw unfolds as follows. If no state is provided nsw will be used.
Results are indexed on the query key (valid for the Property listing API).
Nearest and Radius
The nearest and radius endpoints are virtually identical and will return stations within a defined radius of a specific geographical point. The latitude, longitude and radius are required. If the former two are not provided no results will be returned.
Results are indexed on the query key (valid for the Property listing API).
Browse and Search
The browse and search endpoints are virtually identical with the exception that the search endpoint is used if filtering URL attributes are provided. The browse endpoint requires the page, limit, orderby, and order attributes (else default values are used). The search parameters are simply name and state. Since both results are similar, a basic (paginated) response for a search of 'burwood (with just two results)' is shown. Had we included '&nsw=nsw' only a single result would be returned.
The search feature is usually used for partial name matches.
Conclusion
Property widgets have the option of showing a small rail icon with a distance to the nearest rail station, and it's this function that is the primary purpose of this API. That said, we do include a rail search engine on your website simply because we can.
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