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Historical Flight List Data
4 years 6 months ago #1135
by wsmith
Historical Flight List Data was created by wsmith
I am working on a personal project (while quarantined) and I am interested in using the OpenSky API to get historical flight data.
I am specifically looking for a daily (or weekly) updated dataset containing the recent flights for all the planes tracked.
I noticed that I can get this historical data for specific planes (ex: opensky-network.org/api/flights/aircraft...62&limit=25&offset=0) but not for all planes in a bulk download.
Sending a bunch of API requests for lots of different planes seems like it would put a lot of unnecessary strain on your servers.
Could this aggregated data be uploaded to the /datasets/ page?
I am specifically looking for a daily (or weekly) updated dataset containing the recent flights for all the planes tracked.
I noticed that I can get this historical data for specific planes (ex: opensky-network.org/api/flights/aircraft...62&limit=25&offset=0) but not for all planes in a bulk download.
Sending a bunch of API requests for lots of different planes seems like it would put a lot of unnecessary strain on your servers.
Could this aggregated data be uploaded to the /datasets/ page?
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4 years 6 months ago #1136
by strohmeier
Replied by strohmeier on topic Historical Flight List Data
If you are only looking for the flight metadata, we do upload this at the moment, as linked on the frontpage: opensky-network.org/datasets/covid-19/
I'm afraid monthly updates is all we can get done though, we are all volunteers with day jobs. None of which got curbed by corona (fortunately!).
I'm afraid monthly updates is all we can get done though, we are all volunteers with day jobs. None of which got curbed by corona (fortunately!).
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4 years 6 months ago #1137
by wsmith
Replied by wsmith on topic Historical Flight List Data
Thanks for your quick response. I totally understand.
Could I pass more than one icao24 to the api (for the historical data)?
ex: opensky.../api/flights/aircraft?icao=a2b8db+a2a32b+a2aa93&begin=1587066862&end...
That might be an easier way to get the desired result (i really only care about a very small subset of the total planes).
I would be happy to help build that feature.
Could I pass more than one icao24 to the api (for the historical data)?
ex: opensky.../api/flights/aircraft?icao=a2b8db+a2a32b+a2aa93&begin=1587066862&end...
That might be an easier way to get the desired result (i really only care about a very small subset of the total planes).
I would be happy to help build that feature.
