airports-data

Airports data: static, dynamic and custom dump. Data from OpenFlights Airports Database.

Installation

npm install airports-data

Usage

const fs = require("fs");
const getAirportsData = require("airports-data");

process.on("unhandledRejection", err => {
  console.error(err);
  process.exit(1);
});

async function dumpData() {
  const data = await getAirportsData({
    dynamic: true,
    keys: ["name", "iata"]
  });
  fs.writeFileSync("airports.json", JSON.stringify(data));
}

dumpData();

API

getAirportsData(options): Promise<AirportData[]>

Option	Type	Default	Description
options	object?
options.dynamic	boolean?	false	Request the latest data online.
options.keys	string?[] | string?	undefined	Apply a simple filtering to the loaded data (both statically and dynamically). Array of strings or string with comma separated keys.

CLI

Usage
	$ airports-data

Options
	--dynamic, -d  Get data from https://openflights.org/data.html#airport instead of the local dump [Default: false]
	--keys, -k  Keys to include [Default:
		id
		name
		city
		country
		iata
		icao
		latitude
		longitude
		altitude
		timezone
		dst
		tz
		type
		source
	]

Examples
	$ airports-data
	[..., {"id":1382,"name":"Charles de Gaulle International Airport","city":"Paris","country":"France","iata":"CDG","icao":"LFPG","latitude":49.0127983093,"longitude":2.54999995232,"altitude":392,"timezone":1,"dst":"E","tz":"Europe/Paris","type":"airport","source":"OurAirports"}, ...]
	$ airports-data --keys name,iata
	[..., {"name":"Charles de Gaulle International Airport","iata":"CDG"}, ...]

Data

Key	Description
id	Unique OpenFlights identifier for this airport.
name	Name of airport. May or may not contain the City name.
city	Main city served by airport. May be spelled differently from Name.
country	Country or territory where airport is located. See countries.dat to cross-reference to ISO 3166-1 codes.
iata	3-letter IATA code. null if not assigned/unknown.
icao	4-letter ICAO code. null if not assigned.
latitude	Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is South, positive is North.
longitude	Decimal degrees, usually to six significant digits. Negative is West, positive is East.
altitude	In feet.
timezone	Hours offset from UTC. Fractional hours are expressed as decimals, eg. India is 5.5.
dst	Daylight savings time. One of E (Europe), A (US/Canada), S (South America), O (Australia), Z (New Zealand), N (None) or U (Unknown).
tz	Timezone in "tz" (Olson) format, eg. "America/Los_Angeles".
type	Type of the airport. Value "airport" for air terminals, "station" for train stations, "port" for ferry terminals and "unknown" if not known.
source	Source of this data. "OurAirports" for data sourced from OurAirports, "Legacy" for old data not matched to OurAirports (mostly DAFIF), "User" for unverified user contributions.

License

MIT. See license file.