About InfraNode

Hi, I am Khaled Cherif, a software developer from Hamburg. InfraNode is my attempt to solve a problem I kept running into at work.

How it came about

As a developer I faced the same hurdle again and again: the moment I needed a city's open data, say on air quality, weather, traffic or public transit, I first had to sign up at yet another portal and request an API key. Every source had its own format, its own quirks and its own login. A small feature swallowed a disproportionate amount of time before the first line of useful code even existed.

That is where the idea behind InfraNode came from: to bring these fragmented sources together behind a single, unified REST interface and make them available to everyone without a key. The API passes the data of the official sources through, normalises it onto a shared envelope and states honestly where each response comes from and whether a source is currently returning anything.

How the project runs

The entire project is free to use and ad-free. A source code release is in preparation. It is built with accessibility in mind. Maintenance and operation rest with a single person, namely me. Everything runs on a server in Germany.

To make up for that, I use every available technique for a self-healing system: outages of individual sources are caught automatically and recover on their own as soon as the source returns. And just in case, I am connected directly via ntfy and always respond immediately.

Contact

For suggestions, bug reports and enquiries you can reach me at [email protected].