Fetch aircraft data from Flightradar24.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Airlines
  • Airport
  • Zones
  • Flights
  • Flight Details
  • Flights by Airline
  • Flights by Bounds
  • Airline Logo
  • Country Flag
• Documentation
• Development
• Contributing
• License
• Code of Conduct

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'flight_radar'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install flight_radar

Usage

Airlines

FlightRadar.airlines

Sample response:

[
  {"Name"=>"21 Air", "Code"=>"2I", "ICAO"=>"CSB"},
  {"Name"=>"25Only Aviation", "Code"=>"", "ICAO"=>"ONY"},
  {"Name"=>"40-Mile Air", "Code"=>"Q5", "ICAO"=>"MLA"},
# ...
]

Airport

airport = "LAX"
FlightRadar.airport(airport)

Sample response:

{
  "details" => {
    "name" => "Lodz Wladyslaw Reymont Airport",
    "code" => {
      "iata" => "LCJ",
      "icao" => "EPLL"
    },
    "position" => {
      "latitude" => 51.721882,
      "longitude" => 19.39813,
      "altitude" => 604,
      "country" => {
        "id" => nil,
        "name" => "Poland",
        "code" => "POL"
      },
      "region" => {
        "city" => "Lodz"
      }
    },
    # ...
  }
}

Zones

FlightRadar.zones

Sample response:

{
  "europe" => {
    "tl_y" => 72.57,
    "tl_x" => -16.96,
    "br_y" => 33.57,
    "br_x" => 53.05,
    "subzones" => {
      "poland" => {
        "tl_y" => 56.86,
        "tl_x" => 11.06,
        "br_y" => 48.22,
        "br_x" => 28.26
      },
      "germany" => {
        "tl_y" => 57.92,
        "tl_x" => 1.81,
        "br_y" => 45.81,
        "br_x" => 16.83
      },
      # ...
    }
  }
}

Flights

FlightRadar.flights

Sample response:

[
  "<(GRND) - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 146 - Heading: 146>",
  "<(DRON) TEST4A - Altitude: 374 - Ground Speed: 1 - Heading: 1>",
  "<(GLID) STM32 - Altitude: 2290 - Ground Speed: 1 - Heading: 1>",
  "<() - Altitude: 508 - Ground Speed: 7 - Heading: 7>",
  "<(B763) N142FE - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 0 - Heading: 0>",
  "<(GRND) - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 278 - Heading: 278>",
  "<(GLID) OM-2709 - Altitude: 1236 - Ground Speed: 1 - Heading: 1>",
  "<(B763) N196FE - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 0 - Heading: 0>",
  "<(B77L) N869FD - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 0 - Heading: 0>",
  "<(B763) N111FE - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 0 - Heading: 0>",
  "<(B763) N193FE - Altitude: 0 - Ground Speed: 0 - Heading: 0>",
# ...
]

Flight Details

flight_id = FlightRadar.flights.sample.id
FlightRadar.flight_details(flight_id)

Sample response:

{
  "identification" => {
    "id" => "2aaadc48",
    "row" => 5175915984,
    "number" => {
      "default" => "F980",
      "alternative" => nil
    },
    "callsign" => "FFT80"
  },
  "status" => {
    "live" => true,
    "text" => "Estimated- 14:01",
    "icon" => "green",
    "estimated" => nil,
    "ambiguous" => false,
    "generic" => {
      "status" => {
        "text" => "estimated",
        "color" => "green",
        "type" => "arrival"
      },
      "eventTime" => {
        "utc" => 1643652087,
        "local" => 1643637687
      }
    }
  },
  # ...
}

Flights by airline

airline = "LOT"
FlightRadar.flights(airline: airline)

Sample response:

[
  "<(B789) SP-LSG - Altitude: 39992 - Ground Speed: 451 - Heading: 451>",
  "<(B788) SP-LRA - Altitude: 38975 - Ground Speed: 537 - Heading: 537>",
  "<(B788) SP-LRB - Altitude: 38000 - Ground Speed: 463 - Heading: 463>",
  "<(E195) SP-LNF - Altitude: 31675 - Ground Speed: 420 - Heading: 420>",
  "<(B38M) SP-LVF - Altitude: 38000 - Ground Speed: 460 - Heading: 460>",
  "<(E195) SP-LNB - Altitude: 22475 - Ground Speed: 366 - Heading: 366>",
  "<(B789) SP-LSF - Altitude: 36000 - Ground Speed: 440 - Heading: 440>",
# ...
]

Flights by bounds

zone = FlightRadar.zones["oceania"]
bounds = FlightRadar.bounds(zone)
FlightRadar.flights(bounds: bounds)

Sample response:

[
  "<(B788) VT-ANP - Altitude: 41000 - Ground Speed: 494 - Heading: 494>",
  "<(B738) VT-AXZ - Altitude: 37000 - Ground Speed: 436 - Heading: 436>",
  "<(B772) PH-BQA - Altitude: 32000 - Ground Speed: 496 - Heading: 496>",
  "<(A388) 9V-SKS - Altitude: 33996 - Ground Speed: 498 - Heading: 498>",
  "<(B77L) A7-BFY - Altitude: 32000 - Ground Speed: 478 - Heading: 478>",
  "<(B78X) 9V-SCA - Altitude: 38996 - Ground Speed: 514 - Heading: 514>",
  "<(B77W) A6-ENU - Altitude: 34000 - Ground Speed: 504 - Heading: 504>",
  "<(A359) OH-LWF - Altitude: 40004 - Ground Speed: 476 - Heading: 476>",
# ...
]

Airline logo

iata = "TK"
icao = "THY"
FlightRadar.airline_logo(iata, icao)

Sample response:

%w[https://cdn.flightradar24.com/assets/airlines/logotypes/TK_THY.png https://www.flightradar24.com/static/images/data/operators/THY_logo0.png]

Country flag

FlightRadar.country_flag("Poland")

Sample response:

"https://www.flightradar24.com/static/images/data/flags-small/poland.gif"

Documentation

Live documentation of the gem is available at this GitHub page.

Development

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/kupolak/flight_radar. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Code of Conduct

Everyone interacting in the FlightRadar project's codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.