VATSIM Feed - is a current information about online controllers, pilots, booked flights, available data and voice servers of VATSIM network.
We do parse VATSIM feed and provide it as a JSON-formatted data, so you can use it in your own project for whatever you need.
Output contains these key sections:
feed_info
: information about current feed, including update timestamp, number of connected clients, etc.fields_def
: name of the fields of each main section (voice_fields
, client_fields
, prefile_fields
, server_fields
)clients
: divided then on atc
and pilot
, representing online controllers and pilotsprefile
: prefiled flightsvoice_servers
: available voice serversservers
: available data serversUsage
Endpoint: /feed
Request method: GET
Headers:
Header parameter | Description | |
---|---|---|
X-API-Key |
Your unique API key | |
pretty |
If not set or set to 0 - return minified JSON output. If set to 1 - will return pretty-printed JSON. |
Example request:
Python
import requests
url = "https://api.vacc-ua.org/api/feed"
headers = {
'X-API-Key': "123456",
'pretty': "1",
'Cache-Control': "no-cache"
}
response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)
PHP
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
CURLOPT_PORT => "443",
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.vacc-ua.org/api/feed",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
"X-API-Key: 123456",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"pretty: 1"
),
));
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
Example response:
{
"fields_def": {
"voice_fields": [
"hostname_or_IP",
"location",
"name",
"clients_connection_allowed",
"type_of_voice_server"
],
"client_fields": [
"callsign",
"cid",
"realname",
"clienttype",
"frequency",
"latitude",
"longitude",
"altitude",
"groundspeed",
"planned_aircraft",
"planned_tascruise",
"planned_depairport",
"planned_altitude",
"planned_destairport",
"server",
"protrevision",
"rating",
"transponder",
"facilitytype",
"visualrange",
"planned_revision",
"planned_flighttype",
"planned_deptime",
"planned_actdeptime",
"planned_hrsenroute",
"planned_minenroute",
"planned_hrsfuel",
"planned_minfuel",
"planned_altairport",
"planned_remarks",
"planned_route",
"planned_depairport_lat",
"planned_depairport_lon",
"planned_destairport_lat",
"planned_destairport_lon",
"atis_message",
"time_last_atis_received",
"time_logon",
"heading",
"QNH_iHg",
"QNH_Mb"
],
"prefile_fields": [
"callsign",
"cid",
"realname",
"clienttype",
"frequency",
"latitude",
"longitude",
"altitude",
"groundspeed",
"planned_aircraft",
"planned_tascruise",
"planned_depairport",
"planned_altitude",
"planned_destairport",
"server",
"protrevision",
"rating",
"transponder",
"facilitytype",
"visualrange",
"planned_revision",
"planned_flighttype",
"planned_deptime",
"planned_actdeptime",
"planned_hrsenroute",
"planned_minenroute",
"planned_hrsfuel",
"planned_minfuel",
"planned_altairport",
"planned_remarks",
"planned_route",
"planned_depairport_lat",
"planned_depairport_lon",
"planned_destairport_lat",
"planned_destairport_lon",
"atis_message",
"time_last_atis_received",
"time_logon",
"heading",
"QNH_iHg",
"QNH_Mb"
],
"server_fields": [
"ident",
"hostname_or_IP",
"location",
"name",
"clients_connection_allowed"
]
},
"feed_info": {
"UPDATE": "20180429192112",
"VERSION": "8",
"RELOAD": "2",
"CONNECTED CLIENTS": "974",
"ATIS ALLOW MIN": "5"
},
"voice_servers": {
"rw1.vatpac.org": {
"location": "Sydney, Australia",
"name": "VATPAC",
"type_of_voice_server": "R",
"clients_connection_allowed": "1"
}
},
"prefile": {
"AAL2": {
"planned_hrsenroute": "1",
"planned_depairport": "KORD",
"planned_revision": "0",
"planned_remarks": "+VFPS+/V/SEL/BHCL RVR/75 OPR/WWW.JOINAVA.ORG RMK/AIRAC-CURRENT/ CHARTS AVAILABLE ORD/JOHN MANELY UPDATED SCENERY DFW/FSDT",
"planned_flighttype": "I",
"planned_depairport_lon": "0",
"realname": "Craig Moulton KLPC",
"planned_route": "ACITO ADELL ARLYN STL/N0448F380 J8 SGF J105 RZC FSM KOMMA RRNET SEEVR4",
"planned_minenroute": "50",
"planned_tascruise": "447",
"planned_deptime": "1900",
"planned_destairport": "KDFW",
"planned_hrsfuel": "3",
"planned_altitude": "36000",
"planned_aircraft": "B738/L",
"planned_destairport_lon": "0",
"planned_depairport_lat": "0",
"cid": "810358",
"planned_minfuel": "32",
"planned_altairport": "KDAL",
"planned_destairport_lat": "0",
"planned_actdeptime": "1900"
}
},
"clients": {
"pilot": {
"AAL1224": {
"planned_revision": "0",
"planned_hrsenroute": "0",
"planned_depairport": "KMIA",
"cid": "817334",
"planned_remarks": "Adv RNAV w Single FMC /t/",
"QNH_Mb": "1019",
"server": "USA-E",
"planned_depairport_lon": "0",
"realname": "Clive Morris KOPF",
"transponder": "2200",
"heading": "357",
"planned_route": "SOUBY5 SKIPS BR53V ZQA",
"altitude": "24",
"planned_minenroute": "42",
"planned_tascruise": "480",
"protrevision": "100",
"planned_deptime": "1800",
"planned_destairport": "MYNN",
"groundspeed": "0",
"planned_hrsfuel": "2",
"QNH_iHg": "30.099",
"time_logon": "20180429164813",
"planned_altairport": "KMIA",
"rating": "1",
"planned_altitude": "23000",
"planned_aircraft": "B738",
"planned_destairport_lon": "0",
"planned_depairport_lat": "0",
"planned_flighttype": "I",
"planned_minfuel": "30",
"latitude": "25.04771",
"planned_destairport_lat": "0",
"planned_actdeptime": "0",
"longitude": "-77.46629"
}
},
"atc": {
"EGMC_TWR": {
"altitude": "0",
"rating": "3",
"cid": "1339604",
"time_last_atis_received": "20180429190805",
"server": "UK1",
"realname": "Louie Lister",
"visualrange": "50",
"facilitytype": "4",
"frequency": "127.720",
"planned_tascruise": "0",
"latitude": "51.57139",
"protrevision": "100",
"time_logon": "20180429183752",
"longitude": "0.69556",
"atis_message": "$ uk.voice.vatsim.net/egmc_twr^Southend Tower - ATIS 128.950^Hello there, *erm*, I'm just here to show you how easy it is,^to clear an aircraft for takeoff."
}
}
},
"servers": {
"USA-W": {
"location": "San Francisco, USA",
"name": "USA West",
"hostname_or_IP": "50.116.3.203",
"clients_connection_allowed": "1"
}
}
}
Only one object in each section provided as example just to consume space, as whole feed in a prime-time could be up to 200kb in a size.