{"id":39489,"date":"2026-03-09T06:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/need-free-api-for-real-time-flights-with-origin-and-destination-like-opensky-but-with-routes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:27:11","slug":"need-free-api-for-real-time-flights-with-origin-and-destination-like-opensky-but-with-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/need-free-api-for-real-time-flights-with-origin-and-destination-like-opensky-but-with-routes\/","title":{"rendered":"Need Free API For Real-time Flights With Origin And Destination (like OpenSky But With Routes)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi guys, <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m building a real time aviation monitoring dashboard using python n right now I\u2019m using the opensky api to get live aircraft positions.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is that opensky only provides aircraft state data (lat, lon, altitude, callsign, etc.), but it doesn\u2019t include the flight\u2019s origin and destination airports.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking for a free api that provides:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 real-time flight positions<br \/> \u2022 origin airport<br \/> \u2022 destination airport<br \/> \u2022 preferably no strict monthly request limits (or at least generous ones)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve looked at a few options like aviation and airlabs, but their free tiers are very limited in the number of requests.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A free api that provides route info with live flight data?<\/li>\n<li>A workaround people use to infer origin\/destination from ads-b data?<\/li>\n<li>Any open datasets or community feeds that include this info?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Appropriate-Tip935\"> \/u\/Appropriate-Tip935 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1roqkrv\/need_free_api_for_realtime_flights_with_origin\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1roqkrv\/need_free_api_for_realtime_flights_with_origin\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-39489 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='39489' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-39489 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-39489 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, I\u2019m building a real time aviation monitoring dashboard using python n right now I\u2019m using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}