DTN · AsyncAPI Specification

DTN Lightning Stream API (event surface)

Version 1.0.0

Faithful AsyncAPI rendering of DTN's Lightning Stream API, which delivers lightning strikes as a continuous HTTP stream (chunked delivery). Derived from the provider's published OpenAPI (openapi/dtn-lightning-websocket-openapi.json); DTN publishes no AsyncAPI of its own. Strikes can be filtered by bounding box or radius plus startTime; data on the stream lasts 1 day.

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Channels

lightningStrikes
Continuous stream of lightning strike observations matching the query criteria (radius or bounding box, optional startTime).

Servers

https
production
HTTP streaming endpoint; OAuth2 client-credentials Bearer token (api.auth.dtn.com/v1/tokens/authorize)

AsyncAPI Specification

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asyncapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: DTN Lightning Stream API (event surface)
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Faithful AsyncAPI rendering of DTN's Lightning Stream API, which delivers lightning strikes as a continuous HTTP stream (chunked
    delivery). Derived from the provider's published OpenAPI (openapi/dtn-lightning-websocket-openapi.json); DTN publishes no AsyncAPI of its
    own. Strikes can be filtered by bounding box or radius plus startTime; data on the stream lasts 1 day.
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-07-22'
    method: generated
    source: openapi/dtn-lightning-websocket-openapi.json
defaultContentType: application/json
servers:
  production:
    host: lightning.api.dtn.com
    protocol: https
    description: HTTP streaming endpoint; OAuth2 client-credentials Bearer token (api.auth.dtn.com/v1/tokens/authorize)
channels:
  lightningStrikes:
    address: /v1/
    description: Continuous stream of lightning strike observations matching the query criteria (radius or bounding box, optional startTime).
    messages:
      strike:
        name: LightningStrike
        summary: A lightning strike observation (GeoJSON-style point with time and polarity attributes).
        payload:
          type: object
          description: See StrikeFeature schema in openapi/dtn-lightning-websocket-openapi.json
operations:
  receiveLightningStrikes:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/lightningStrikes'
    description: Subscribe to the strike stream (HTTP GET, chunked stream response). Backed by operation GET /v1/ in the published OpenAPI.

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