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Datalastic Live Tracking API

Real-time AIS vessel position and voyage data.

Datalastic Live Tracking API is one of 6 APIs that Datalastic publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Live Tracking. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 3 operations across 3 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version v0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.datalastic.com/api/v0.

3 operations 3 paths 7 schemas 3 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
v0
Base URL
https://api.datalastic.com/api/v0
Authentication
API Key
Contact
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Datalastic Live Tracking API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as api-key (apiKey). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKey — Personal API key issued with a Datalastic subscription. Passed as the api-key query parameter on every request.

Paths & Operations 3

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Live Tracking 3

Real-time AIS vessel position and voyage data.

GET
/vessel
Basic live ship tracking
getVessel 3 params → 200401404429
GET
/vessel_pro
Pro live ship tracking with ETA
getVesselPro 3 params → 200401404429
GET
/vessel_bulk
Bulk live ship tracking
getVesselBulk 3 params → 200401429

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are VesselPosition (16 properties), Meta (3 properties), VesselListResponse (2 properties), VesselPositionResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

VesselProResponse
object
2 properties
Meta
object
Response metadata.
3 properties
VesselPositionResponse
object
2 properties
VesselProPosition
VesselPosition
object
Real-time AIS position data for a vessel.
16 properties
Error
object
1 property
VesselListResponse
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

datalastic-live-tracking-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Datalastic publishes across the network.

Datalastic Historical API
Datalastic Ports API
Datalastic Reports and Usage API
Datalastic Vessel Data API
Datalastic Zone Traffic API
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