Analyzing Flightradar24's API structure

Interesting reading on how FR24 takes the ADS-B data and display's it on their website map.



Analyzing Flightradar24's API structure.

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Airlines & Airports

Then, the app then proceeds to get a list of the airports and airlines. It does so by using the following two URLs:

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http://ift.tt/1kXFMO2



Zones

To prevent longer loading times, the application does not load all the aircraft data all at once. It only gets the necessary information that it needs for a user's location. Therefore, the earth is divided into zones. The app gets all the zones from this URL:

http://ift.tt/1xtXtPh



Aircraft data

( “na_ne” zone, which stands for “north america, north east”.)

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It is possible to get more information for a specific aircraft using this API:

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