Cannot pull in live data from API for the flights about aviationstack HOT 7 OPEN

Luke,

'live' is null when there is no live data for the flight (not being cute)

This makes sense because look at the "flight_status" variable - its "scheduled" which means the aircraft hasn't taken off, it just has a flight plan filed, definitely isn't airborne.

If you're only looking for live data then filter your API request to 'flight_status' : 'active' to only get flights that are currently in the air which have a better chance of containing 'live' data which will look something like this instead of null:
'live': {'updated': '2022-10-07T22:41:04+00:00', 'latitude': 56.11, 'longitude': 40.45, 'altitude': 10668, 'direction': 88, 'speed_horizontal': 926, 'speed_vertical': 0, 'is_ground': False}}]

Hope this helps! I've been knee deep in this API for a class so getting fairly familiar with it, let me know if you have other questions!

-jinxyCat14

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Luke,

'live' is null when there is no live data for the flight (not being cute)

This makes sense because look at the "flight_status" variable - its "scheduled" which means the aircraft hasn't taken off, it just has a flight plan filed, definitely isn't airborne.

If you're only looking for live data then filter your API request to 'flight_status' : 'active' to only get flights that are currently in the air which have a better chance of containing 'live' data which will look something like this instead of null: 'live': {'updated': '2022-10-07T22:41:04+00:00', 'latitude': 56.11, 'longitude': 40.45, 'altitude': 10668, 'direction': 88, 'speed_horizontal': 926, 'speed_vertical': 0, 'is_ground': False}}]

Hope this helps! I've been knee deep in this API for a class so getting fairly familiar with it, let me know if you have other questions!

-jinxyCat14

Hi jinxyCat14,

If the lack of real-time data is understandable, then why is the data of aircraft also null, I need this data.So I'm trying to figure this out.

Looking forward to your reply.

Jaryn

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Good question, the other fields that are null are all sections that may not be populated yet. A flight that is only scheduled obviously doesn’t have any ‘actual’ data - it only exists inside the computer system. The null fields will become filled with data when the flight becomes ‘active’.
-jinxyCat14

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Did you ever figure this out? @lukemenziesAA
I have having the same issue, it is also present for ''active'' flights..

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