libhomeradar is an easy to use library for all type of programming language which can use libraries. libhomeradar can connect to different sources to collect aircraft informations arround the world with extended informations, powerful filtering and structured data access.
libhomeradar is written in C and is available for Linux and Windows (2003, XP, NT, Vista).
Currently libhomeradar works with the Kinetic Avionics SBS-1 base station and the Airnav Systems Radarbox.
libhomeradar online API
With our public available XML API everyone have access to our databases. If you need some informations about aircrafts, airports, airlines or flights, our API (can) help you.
All what you need is a simple HTTP GET or POST request to our public API and you'll get a short XML answer.
The API access is free for everyone. The only limit is the 150 requests / day limit and a timeout of 300 seconds before the next request for anonymous access. If you need a higher limit, please feel free to send us a short mail. Please describe short why the limit is too low for you and what is the service for which you wish to use our API.
Latest updates
Since some users have used our api access to collect informations about all aircrafts from our database, we have to include some limits for all type of requests.
- unlimited API accounts will only be assigned to users which will send aircraft contacts to our database or which pay 5€/month for the unlimited API access
- existing unlimited accounts are valid until 1st July 2011. After July 2011 we check for incoming contacts from the API users and if there are no registered contacts, the daily limit will be reduced to 200 requests (without timeouts)
- Account owners which use our API in commercial applications or non-public websites should pay from July 1st 10&euro/month
Why these limitations?
Our admins working daily to keep the database up2date and this work will be used by other databases and services which will not credit the data source and use our human resources to increase the quantity and quality of their database.
API requests with your smartphone
Now you can use the libhomeradar API also when on tour.
Enter the URL http://mobile.libhomeradar.org/api/ into your smartphones browser. You can use all main API request modes (except fleetlist, airline list and airport list)
For aircraft or contacts requests you will see (if available) a random selected picture from the aircraft.
Mobile access to our main database will follow soon.
Short example on how to use our API
API URL: http://www.libhomeradar.org/assets/lhr.api Request last seen information for Condor aircraft 'D-ABOM' - http://www.libhomeradar.org/assets/lhr.api?t=lastseen&r=D-ABOM Request informations about the MALEV aircraft 'HA-LOA' - http://www.libhomeradar.org/assets/lhr.api?t=acinfo&r=HA-LOA Request informations about the Germany airport 'STR' - http://www.libhomeradar.org/assets/lhr.api?t=airport&r=STR
Download API documentation
Please download our API documentation (PDF) to read all about the API functions and parameters.
You'll find all needed informations, examples and messages in the documentation.
Download API documentation [108 KB]
(updated January 31th 2009)