OpenSky Network Tracks API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: OpenSky Network REST Tracks API
  description: REST API for retrieving real-time and historical ADS-B aircraft state vectors, flight tracks, and airport arrival and departure data from the OpenSky Network crowd-sourced receiver network. Intended for non-commercial research and educational use.
  version: 1.0.0
  termsOfService: https://opensky-network.org/about/terms-of-use
  contact:
    name: OpenSky Network
    email: contact@opensky-network.org
    url: https://opensky-network.org/about/contact
  license:
    name: OpenSky Network Terms of Use
    url: https://opensky-network.org/about/terms-of-use
servers:
- url: https://opensky-network.org/api
  description: OpenSky Network REST API
security:
- {}
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Tracks
  description: Endpoints for retrieving aircraft trajectory tracks with detailed waypoint data.
paths:
  /tracks:
    get:
      operationId: getTrackByAircraft
      summary: Get track by aircraft
      description: Retrieve the trajectory for a certain aircraft at a given time. The track is a list of waypoints containing position, altitude, and velocity information. Set time to 0 to get the live track.
      tags:
      - Tracks
      parameters:
      - name: icao24
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Unique ICAO 24-bit address of the transponder in lower-case hex string representation (e.g. 3c6444).
      - name: time
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Unix timestamp within the time window of the flight to retrieve. Set to 0 for the live track of the aircraft.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response with the aircraft track.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/TrackResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request. Invalid parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '404':
          description: No track found for the given aircraft and time.
          content: {}
        '429':
          description: Too many requests. Credit limit exhausted.
          headers:
            X-Rate-Limit-Retry-After-Seconds:
              schema:
                type: integer
              description: Number of seconds to wait before retrying.
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message.
    TrackResponse:
      type: object
      description: A track representing the path of an aircraft over time.
      properties:
        icao24:
          type: string
          description: Unique ICAO 24-bit address of the transponder in hex string representation.
          example: 3c6444
        startTime:
          type: integer
          description: Time of the first waypoint in Unix time (seconds since epoch).
          example: 1517220000
        endTime:
          type: integer
          description: Time of the last waypoint in Unix time (seconds since epoch).
          example: 1517223600
        callsign:
          type: string
          nullable: true
          description: Callsign of the aircraft. Can be null.
          example: 'DLH400 '
        path:
          type: array
          description: 'Array of waypoints. Each waypoint is an array with 6 fields: [time, latitude, longitude, baro_altitude, true_track, on_ground].'
          items:
            type: array
            description: A waypoint with 6 indexed fields.
            items: {}
            prefixItems:
            - type: integer
              description: Unix timestamp of the waypoint.
            - type: number
              format: float
              nullable: true
              description: WGS-84 latitude in decimal degrees.
            - type: number
              format: float
              nullable: true
              description: WGS-84 longitude in decimal degrees.
            - type: number
              format: float
              nullable: true
              description: Barometric altitude in meters.
            - type: number
              format: float
              nullable: true
              description: True track in decimal degrees clockwise from north.
            - type: boolean
              description: Boolean indicating if the aircraft is on the ground.
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: OAuth2 client credentials Bearer token obtained from https://auth.opensky-network.org/auth/realms/opensky-network/protocol/openid-connect/token. Tokens expire after 30 minutes.
externalDocs:
  description: OpenSky Network REST API Documentation
  url: https://openskynetwork.github.io/opensky-api/rest.html