opensky-cli

Unofficial CLI for the OpenSky Network API - live aircraft tracking data. Made with api2cli.dev.

Note: This is a community-maintained project and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by OpenSky Network. This tool is for non-commercial use only. Commercial use requires written permission from OpenSky Network.

Attribution

This tool uses data from The OpenSky Network. If you use this data in a publication, please cite:

Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic and Matthias Wilhelm. "Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research." In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), pages 83-94, April 2014.

Install

npx api2cli install pyry/opensky-cli

This clones the repo, builds the CLI, links it to your PATH, and installs the AgentSkill to your coding agents.

Install AgentSkill only

npx skills add pyry/opensky-cli

Usage

Authentication is optional. Anonymous access works with rate limits.

# Optional: set credentials for higher rate limits
opensky-cli auth set "username:password"

opensky-cli --help

Resources

states

Command	Description
opensky-cli states all --json	Get all current aircraft state vectors
opensky-cli states all --lamin 45.8 --lomin 5.9 --lamax 47.8 --lomax 10.5 --json	Get states in bounding box
opensky-cli states all --icao24 abc9f3 --json	Get state for specific aircraft
opensky-cli states all --extended --json	Get states with aircraft category
opensky-cli states own --json	Get states for your own sensors (requires auth)

flights

Command	Description
opensky-cli flights all --begin <unix> --end <unix> --json	Get all flights in time interval
opensky-cli flights aircraft --icao24 abc9f3 --begin <unix> --end <unix> --json	Get flights for specific aircraft
opensky-cli flights arrivals --airport EDDF --begin <unix> --end <unix> --json	Get arrivals at airport
opensky-cli flights departures --airport EDDF --begin <unix> --end <unix> --json	Get departures from airport

tracks

Command	Description
opensky-cli tracks get --icao24 abc9f3 --json	Get trajectory for an aircraft
opensky-cli tracks get --icao24 abc9f3 --time <unix> --json	Get trajectory at specific time

Global Flags

All commands support: --json, --format <text|json|csv|yaml>, --verbose, --no-color, --no-header