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airportsapi

Look up an airport's name and website by ICAO code

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 3h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Give it a four-letter ICAO code and it returns the airport's official name and homepage URL as JSON. Minimal but keyless, with CORS enabled for browser use. The underlying dataset is static and hasn't been refreshed since 2017.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 73 · healthy
Uptime history
88.2%90 days
85.0%30 days
821P50 · ms
4969P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 297 ms, slowest 4880 ms, most recent 329 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://airport-web.appspot.com/_ah/api/airportsapi/v1/airports/EDDF

{
  "ICAO": "EDDF",
  "last_update": "2017-07-28T14:18:23.168000",
  "name": "Flughafen Frankfurt Main",
  "url": "https://www.frankfurt-airport.com/"
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://airport-web.appspot.com/_ah/api/airportsapi/v1/airports/EDDF"
const res = await fetch("https://airport-web.appspot.com/_ah/api/airportsapi/v1/airports/EDDF");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://airport-web.appspot.com/_ah/api/airportsapi/v1/airports/EDDF")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 5HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /airports/EDDF821 mschecked 3h ago
GET/airports/EDDFPROBED

Look up an airport's name and website by ICAO code

GET/airports

Airports — documented GET route.

GET/airports/1

Airports details by ID (example: 1).

GET/airports?limit=10

Airports — documented GET route.

GET/airports/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

airportsapi: common questions

Is airportsapi free to use?

Yes — airportsapi is a free transport API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does airportsapi need an API key?

No — airportsapi needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call airportsapi from the browser?

Yes — airportsapi returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is airportsapi up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, airportsapi is healthy with 88.2% uptime over 90 days and a 821 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.