🎯Flight Tracking API

With this API you will be able to track any plane with its number.

API endpoint for this API is: https://api.flightapi.io/airline

Guide

Your API requests are authenticated using API keys. Any request that doesn't include an API key will return an error.

You can generate an API key from your Dashboard at any time.

Here is the list of default parameters you have to use with this API:

Parameters	Description	Type
api_key required	This is your personal API key. You can find this on your Dashboard.	String
num required	This is the official flight number. You should know this in advance.	String
name required	This is the airline code.	String
date required	This is the date for which you wan to track this plane. Format - YYYYMMDD	String

Usage

You have to send a GET request to https://api.flightapi.io/airline along with all the parameters.

Take a look at how you might call this API using various different coding languages.

curl

curl "https://api.flightapi.io/airline/6537facc0175698b26894ef8d67bc?num=33&name=DL&date=20231024"

Node

// require the Unirest or any other module to make an HTTP GET request
const unirest = require('unirest')

unirest.get('https://api.flightapi.io/airline/6537facc0175698b26894ef8d67bc?num=33&name=DL&date=20231024')
  .then(response => {
    console.log(response.body);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error);
  });

Python

// Set your API key before making the request
import requests

resp = requests.get('https://api.flightapi.io/airline/6537facc0175698b26894ef8d67bc?num=33&name=DL&date=20231024')
print (resp.json())

Response

The sample response of the API will look somewhat like this.

// Sample Response

[
    {
        "departure": [
            {
                "Airport:": "LHR",
                "Scheduled Time:": "1:55 PM, Oct 24",
                "Takeoff Time:": "2:37 PM, Oct 24",
                "Terminal - Gate:": "Terminal 3 - 31"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "arrival": [
            {
                "Airport:": "ATL",
                "Scheduled Time:": "6:30 PM, Oct 24",
                "At Gate Time:": "6:05 PM, Oct 24",
                "Terminal - Gate:": "Terminal I - F12"
            }
        ]
    }
]
  

It is just a sample API response. Some objects will have more attributes. A new array might also be there.