WebSocket
Live maps, dashboards, and alerting clients
Receive an initial aircraft snapshot and efficient sequence-numbered deltas without polling.
Read documentation →Other APIs
Choose the transport or data format that fits your workload. Availability labels describe what exists in production today.
Build a live display
Server-Sent Events
Browser and server clients that need one-way event streams
Consume a bounded geographic aircraft snapshot and sparse deltas over authenticated SSE.
Read documentation →Analyze history
Daily Parquet
Researchers, analysts, and bulk-data pipelines
Query or download one compressed open-data file per UTC day with no account or rate limit.
Read documentation →Connect automation and IoT
Node-RED
Automation, education, and low-code builders
Install the verified ADSBiq node for geographic WebSocket snapshots and reconstructed delta state.
Read documentation →MQTT
IoT and message-broker integrations
Subscribe to bounded retained per-aircraft state over authenticated MQTT WebSockets.
Read documentation →Home Assistant
Home automation and local aviation awareness
Install a bounded read-only integration for nearby and closest-aircraft sensors over retained-delta MQTT.
Read documentation →Build AI tools
MCP
AI tool and agent developers
Use the authenticated, read-only ADSBiq MCP server with strictly bounded aircraft tools.
Read documentation →Contracts and partner systems
AsyncAPI
Event-driven application developers
Download the validated, versioned AsyncAPI 3 contract for the production WebSocket protocol.
Read documentation →gRPC
Typed API and high-volume application developers
Call the authenticated, read-only ADSBiq gRPC API through public TLS using the versioned Protobuf contract.
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