OpenSky Network State Vectors API
Endpoints for retrieving real-time and historical aircraft state vectors (position, velocity, altitude, etc.).
OpenSky Network State Vectors API is one of 4 APIs that OpenSky Network publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include State Vectors. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://opensky-network.org/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
OpenSky Network State Vectors API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated, though some operations may also be called without credentials.
bearerAuth— OAuth2 client credentials Bearer token obtained from https://auth.opensky-network.org/auth/realms/opensky-network/protocol/openid-connect/token. Tokens expire…
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for retrieving real-time and historical aircraft state vectors (position, velocity, altitude, etc.).
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are StateVectorResponse (2 properties), Error (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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