Notice

This is currently broken due to an API change (see issue #1). Hopefully I or someone else will get around to updating it soon.

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A Python library to download data from flightradar24.com.

Supports downloading both archived ("playback") as well as "real-time" data, and can convert all units to SI.

Note

This uses an unofficial and completely unsupported API that can (and has in the past) change at any moment, so try not to abuse it. Also there are two unknown fields (unknown1 and unknown2) which don't seem important (they're usually zero), but are still returned.

Requirements

• Python 2.7 (3.x may also work)
• requests

Usage

Sample usage:

import flightradar

zone = 'full' # gets current data for every tracked flight in the world!
data = flightradar.get_current(zone)

print data.next() # ranges in the thousands (e.g. 7,000+) so just print the first flight

gives:

{'src': 'HGH', 'squawk': '1306', 'track': 253, 'type': 'A333', 'icao_addr': '78012D', 'reg_num': 'B-HLJ', 'long': 115.46, 'unknown2': 0, 'dest': 'HKG', 'radar': 'T-VHHH21', 'unknown1': 0, 'callsign': 'HDA623', 'time': datetime.datetime(2014, 6, 15, 20, 35, 23), 'flight_num': 'KA623', 'lat': 22.62, 'alt': 8092.4400000000005, 'time_epoch': 1402882523, 'speed': 240.759999792, 'id': '395791a', 'vert_speed': -12.354560000000001}

All units are (optionally) converted to SI (m and m/s) and time stamps are made available as Python datetime objects.

API

• get_historical() will get data from a given time span (going back a few weeks) and return an iterator yielding dictionaries as above.

• get_recent() is a helper that does the same for a given time span, beginning from the current date and time.

• get_current() returns all the current data for a given zone. A list of supported zones can be found here.

Also see logger.py for some CSV logging functionality.

Credit

This is based on some code by @palli found here.