A number of code examples in different programming languages were prepared for you to get up and running with the Aviationstack API as quickly as possible. You will find them below in PHP, Python, Node.js., JQuerys, Go and Ruby .

Code Example - PHP

$queryString = http_build_query([\n  'access_key' => '2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85'\n]);\n\n$ch = curl_init(sprintf('%s?%s', 'https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights', $queryString));\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);\n\n$json = curl_exec($ch);\ncurl_close($ch);\n\n$api_result = json_decode($json, true);\n\nforeach ($api_result['results'] as $flight) {\n    if (!$flight['live']['is_ground']) {\n        echo sprintf(\"%s flight %s from %s (%s) to %s (%s) is in the air.\",\n            $flight['airline']['name'],\n            $flight['flight']['iata'],\n            $flight['departure']['airport'],\n            $flight['departure']['iata'],\n            $flight['arrival']['airport'],\n            $flight['arrival']['iata']\n            ), PHP_EOL;\n    }\n}

Code Example - Python

import requests\n\nparams = {\n  'access_key': '2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85'\n}\n\napi_result = requests.get('https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights', params)\n\napi_response = api_result.json()\n\nfor flight in api_response['results']:\n    if (flight['live']['is_ground'] is False):\n        print(u'%s flight %s from %s (%s) to %s (%s) is in the air.' % (\n            flight['airline']['name'],\n            flight['flight']['iata'],\n            flight['departure']['airport'],\n            flight['departure']['iata'],\n            flight['arrival']['airport'],\n            flight['arrival']['iata']))

Code Example - Nodejs

const axios = require('axios');\nconst params = {\n  access_key: '2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85'\n}\n\naxios.get('https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights', {params})\n  .then(response => {\n    const apiResponse = response.data;\n    if (Array.isArray(apiResponse['results'])) {\n        apiResponse['results'].forEach(flight => {\n            if (!flight['live']['is_ground']) {\n                console.log(`${flight['airline']['name']} flight ${flight['flight']['iata']}`,\n                    `from ${flight['departure']['airport']} (${flight['departure']['iata']})`,\n                    `to ${flight['arrival']['airport']} (${flight['arrival']['iata']}) is in the air.`);\n            }\n        });\n    }\n  }).catch(error => {\n    console.log(error);\n  });

Code Example - jQuery

$.ajax({\n  url: 'https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights',\n  data: {\n    access_key: '2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85'\n  },\n  dataType: 'json',\n  success: function(apiResponse) {\n    if (Array.isArray(apiResponse['results'])) {\n      apiResponse['results'].forEach(flight => {\n        if (!flight['live']['is_ground']) {\n          console.log(`${flight['airline']['name']} flight ${flight['flight']['iata']}`,\n              `from ${flight['departure']['airport']} (${flight['departure']['iata']})`,\n              `to ${flight['arrival']['airport']} (${flight['arrival']['iata']}) is in the air.`);\n        }\n      });\n    }\n  }\n});

Code Example - Go

package main\n\nimport (\n  \"encoding/json\"\n  \"fmt\"\n  \"net/http\"\n)\n\ntype Airline struct {\n  Name string `json:\"name\"`\n}\n\ntype FlightInfo struct {\n  IATACode string `json:\"iata\"`\n}\n\ntype Destination struct {\n  Airport string `json:\"airport\"`\n  IATACode string `json:\"iata\"`\n}\n\ntype LiveData struct {\n  IsGround bool `json:\"is_ground\"`\n}\n\ntype Flight struct {\n    Airline Airline `json:\"airline\"`\n    FlightInfo FlightInfo `json:\"flight\"`\n    Departure Destination `json:\"departure\"`\n    Arrival Destination `json:\"arrival\"`\n    Live LiveData `json:\"live\"`\n}\n\ntype Response struct {\n\tFlights []Flight `json:\"results\"`\n}\n\nfunc main() {\n  httpClient := http.Client{}\n\n  req, err := http.NewRequest(\"GET\", \"https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights\", nil)\n  if err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n  }\n\n  q := req.URL.Query()\n  q.Add(\"access_key\", \"2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85\")\n  req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()\n\n  res, err := httpClient.Do(req)\n  if err != nil {\n    panic(err)\n  }\n  defer res.Body.Close()\n\n  var apiResponse Response\n  json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&apiResponse)\n\n  for _, flight := range apiResponse.Flights {\n    if (!flight.Live.IsGround) {\n        fmt.Println(fmt.Sprintf(\"%s flight %s from %s (%s) to %s (%s) is in the air.\",\n            flight.Airline.Name,\n            flight.FlightInfo.IATACode,\n            flight.Departure.Airport,\n            flight.Departure.IATACode,\n            flight.Arrival.Airport,\n            flight.Arrival.IATACode))\n    }\n  }\n}

Code Example - Ruby

require 'net/http'\nrequire 'json'\n\nparams = {\n  :access_key => \"2073bd914dab866afeef7d0c88ae8d85\"\n}\nuri = URI('https://api.aviationstack.com/v1/flights')\nuri.query = URI.encode_www_form(params)\njson = Net::HTTP.get(uri)\napi_response = JSON.parse(json)\n\nfor flight in api_response['results']\n    unless flight['live']['is_ground']\n        puts sprintf(\"%s flight %s from %s (%s) to %s (%s) is in the air.\",\n            flight['airline']['name'],\n            flight['flight']['iata'],\n            flight['departure']['airport'],\n            flight['departure']['iata'],\n            flight['arrival']['airport'],\n            flight['arrival']['iata']\n        )\n    end\nend

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