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Summary
Deutsche Bahn's official station-board API (DB API Marketplace, CC BY 4.0): find stations by name or EVA number, read the planned hourly timetable of any station, and pull the live change feed — delays, platform changes, cancellations and disruption messages — straight from DB. Free key, 60 requests per minute. Boards only; use the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan connector for journey planning.
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Example prompts for Deutsche Bahn Timetables API
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
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Deutsche Bahn Timetables API + Microsoft Copilot
Deutsche Bahn's official station-board API (DB API Marketplace, CC BY 4.0): find stations by name or EVA number, read the planned hourly timetable of any station, and pull the live change feed — delays, platform changes, cancellations and disruption messages — straight from DB. Free key, 60 requests per minute. Boards only; use the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan connector for journey planning.
Prerequisites
See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:
DB_CLIENT_ID, DB_API_KEY
Step 1 — Get credentials
This connector calls Deutsche Bahn's official Timetables API v1 on the DB API Marketplace. It is the source of truth for what is happening at a station right now, published by DB itself (CC BY 4.0). It does not plan journeys — pair it with the Deutsche Bahn Fahrplan connector for that.
Getting a key: create a free account at https://developers.deutschebahn.com, create an application, subscribe it to the Timetables API (free plan, 60 requests/minute) and copy the application's Client ID and API Key into DB_CLIENT_ID / DB_API_KEY.
…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)
Step 2 — Install the adapter
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d
Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot
Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.
- In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
- Enter a Server name (for example
AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server. - Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to
X-API-Key, then select Create. - In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
- Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the
Deutsche Bahn Timetables APItools. - Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.
Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.
Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
dbt_search_stations | Find Deutsche Bahn stations by name prefix, DS100 code or EVA number |
dbt_get_station_board | Planned timetable of a station for one hour: every train with id (match it against dbt_get_changes), category (ICE, IC, EC, RE, RB, S …) |
dbt_get_changes | All currently known changes at a station, straight from Deutsche Bahn (refreshed every 30 s): per train id (matches dbt_get_station_board) |
dbt_get_recent_changes | Changes at a station from the last two minutes only — the same shape as dbt_get_changes, for polling a station you are watching without re-r |
FAQ
Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.
What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.
The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.
Next steps
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