FlyItalyADSB

FlyItalyADSB Live API

What the network is receiving now.

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Operations 4

GET /v2/icao/{hex} One aircraft by ICAO address #
GET /v2/callsign/{callsign} One aircraft by callsign #
GET /v2/reg/{reg} One aircraft by registration #
GET /v2/lat/{lat}/lon/{lon}/dist/{dist} All aircraft within a radius of a point #

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/flyitalyadsb/openapi/flyitalyadsb-live-api-openapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/flyitalyadsb/json-schema/flyitalyadsb-aircraft-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/flyitalyadsb/json-schema/flyitalyadsb-aircraft-list-schema.json

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https://artifacts.apis.io/flyitalyadsb/apis.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

flyitalyadsb-live-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: FlyItalyADSB Live API
  version: '2'
  summary: Live and historical aircraft positions worldwide from the FlyItalyADSB community ADS-B/MLAT network. Commercial use allowed on every plan, Free included; the whole world in one request from the Pro plan (€49/month).
  description: 'Unfiltered aircraft data (no FAA/LADD/BARR filtering; military aircraft included, many of them via MLAT) from a global community-run receiver network (about 3,200 receivers, densest in North America and Europe; any point on Earth can be queried), as readsb aircraft.json records (the same format as tar1090), plus an ADS-B Exchange v2–compatible variant at /api/aircraft/v2. Every endpoint except the key signup needs an X-Api-Key; keys are self-serve (see /auth.md). Plans and limits: https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/data/api/#piani. The same key works on the MCP server at https://flyitalyadsb.com/mcp. The same data is also served in the ADS-B Exchange v2 format (same paths, key headers and JSON; radius in nautical miles) at https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/api/aircraft/v2, documented at https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/data/api/docs/adsbx-v2/.'
  termsOfService: https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/terms/
  contact:
    name: FlyItalyADSB
    email: info@flyitalyadsb.com
    url: https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/contact/
  license:
    name: 'Data: CC BY-SA 4.0'
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://api.flyitalyadsb.com
security:
- ApiKey: []
tags:
- name: Live
  description: What the network is receiving now.
paths:
  /v2/icao/{hex}:
    get:
      summary: One aircraft by ICAO address
      tags:
      - Live
      parameters:
      - name: hex
        in: path
        required: true
        description: 24-bit ICAO address, hex (case-insensitive).
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The aircraft currently seen with this identifier.
          headers:
            X-FIA-Plan:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Plan'
            X-FIA-Used-Month:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Used-Month'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Aircraft'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          description: No aircraft with this identifier is being received right now.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unavailable'
      operationId: getV2IcaoByHex
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /v2/callsign/{callsign}:
    get:
      summary: One aircraft by callsign
      tags:
      - Live
      parameters:
      - name: callsign
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Flight callsign (case-insensitive).
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The aircraft currently seen with this identifier.
          headers:
            X-FIA-Plan:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Plan'
            X-FIA-Used-Month:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Used-Month'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Aircraft'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          description: No aircraft with this identifier is being received right now.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unavailable'
      operationId: getV2CallsignByCallsign
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /v2/reg/{reg}:
    get:
      summary: One aircraft by registration
      tags:
      - Live
      parameters:
      - name: reg
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Registration, e.g. MM62179 (case-insensitive).
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The aircraft currently seen with this identifier.
          headers:
            X-FIA-Plan:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Plan'
            X-FIA-Used-Month:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Used-Month'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Aircraft'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          description: No aircraft with this identifier is being received right now.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unavailable'
      operationId: getV2RegByReg
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /v2/lat/{lat}/lon/{lon}/dist/{dist}:
    get:
      summary: All aircraft within a radius of a point
      description: 'The radius is in kilometres (ADSBx v2 uses nautical miles). The maximum radius depends on the plan: https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/data/api/#piani.'
      tags:
      - Live
      parameters:
      - name: lat
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Latitude, decimal degrees.
        schema:
          type: number
      - name: lon
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Longitude, decimal degrees.
        schema:
          type: number
      - name: dist
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Radius in km.
        schema:
          type: number
          minimum: 0
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Aircraft within the radius.
          headers:
            X-FIA-Plan:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Plan'
            X-FIA-Used-Month:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/X-FIA-Used-Month'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AircraftList'
        '400':
          description: lat, lon or dist is not a number.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          description: The radius is above the plan's maximum (the body carries max_radius_km and a link to the plans).
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unavailable'
      operationId: getV2LatByLatLonByLonDistByDist
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  responses:
    Unavailable:
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
    Unauthorized:
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
  schemas:
    AircraftList:
      type: object
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
    Aircraft:
      type: object
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
  headers:
    X-FIA-Plan:
      type: object
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
    X-FIA-Used-Month:
      type: object
      description: Referenced by this document but never defined in it. API Evangelist added this empty placeholder so the document resolves; the shape is unknown and is NOT a claim about the API.
      x-ae-placeholder: true
externalDocs:
  description: 'API page: plans, endpoints, free key'
  url: https://flyitalyadsb.com/en/data/api/