🛫 Opensky Client

A lightweight and easy-to-use library to interact with the OpenSky Network API.

✨ Features

• Uses the new OAuth2 Client Credentials Flow
• Normalizes API responses into simple, user-friendly formats
• Supports fetching
  • State Vectors
  • (More endpoints coming soon!)

🚀 Example usage

Unauthenticated call to the API to get all states

import { OpenSkyClient } from 'opensky-client'

const opensky = new OpenSkyClient()

// Get all states
const states = await opensky.getStates()

// Print all state vectors (aircraft infos)
console.log(states)

📂 Authenticated Example

📊 OpenSky API Rate Limits

| User Type | API Credits | Requirement | | --- | --- | --- | | Unauthenticated | 400 credits/day | No authentication needed | | Default | 4,000 credits/day | Requires OpenSky account | | Active Contributing | 8,000 credits/day | Requires active ADS-B receiver ≥30% uptime monthly |

Check Limitations for more details about rate limits and other API limitations.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This library is in no way officially affiliated with or endorsed by the OpenSky Network.

By using this library, you agree to the OpenSky Network's Terms of Use and Data License Agreement.