flightstats-flex

Ruby client for the FlightStats Flex API.

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem "flightstats-flex", "~> 0.3.0"

or

gem 'flightstats-flex', :git => 'https://github.com/diditclear/flightstats-client-ruby'

Note that there is an old flightstats gem on Rubygems, hence the name flightstats-flex for this library.

Usage

You only need to configure your FlightStats app id and keys:

FlightStats.app_id = '1234'
FlightStats.app_key = '5678'

You can also specify your own logger:

FlightStats.logger = Logger.new

When using Rails, you can set it up in an initializer (e.g. config/initializers/flightstats.rb):

require 'flightstats'

FlightStats.app_id = '1234'
FlightStats.app_key = '5678'
FlightStats.logger = Rails.logger

Extended options

The last argument of each API call is an optional hash. The :params key of that hash is used to pass query parameters.

For extended options, it looks like:

FlightStats::Airport.actives({ :params => { :extendedOptions => 'languageCode:fr' } })
FlightStats::Airport.actives({ :params => { :extendedOptions => 'useHTTPErrors+languageCode:fr' } })

Supported APIs

Airports

Active airports

airports = FlightStats::Airport.actives

Active airports for date

airports = FlightStats::Airport.actives_for_date 2013, 5, 1

All airports (active and inactive)

airports = FlightStats::Airport.all

Current airport by code (code type chosen via precedence order)

airports = FlightStats::Airport.current 'PDX'

Airport on date by code

airports = FlightStats::Airport.on_date 'PDX', 2013, 5, 1

Airports by city code

airports = FlightStats::Airport.by_city_code 'ABC'

Airports by country code

airports = FlightStats::Airport.by_country_code 'GB'

Airport by FlightStats code

airport = FlightStats::Airport.by_flight_stats_code 'PDX'

Airports by IATA code

airports = FlightStats::Airport.by_iata_code 'PDX'

Airport by IATA code on date

airport = FlightStats::Airport.by_iata_code_on_date 'PDX', 2013, 5, 1

Airports by ICAO code

airports = FlightStats::Airport.by_icao_code 'KPDX'

Airport by ICAO code on date

airport = FlightStats::Airport.by_icao_code_on_date 'KPDX', 2013, 5, 1

Airports within radius of location

airports = FlightStats::Airport.within_radius 17, 39, 150
airports.size # => 9
airports[5].name # => "Papola Casale Airport"

Flight Status & Track by Flight

Flight Status (by flight ID)

flight_status = FlightStats::FlightStatus.by_flight_id 1234

Flight status (flights departing on date)

flight_statuses = FlightStats::FlightStatus.departing_on 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Flight status (flights arriving on date)

flight_statuses = FlightStats::FlightStatus.arriving_on 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Flight track (by flight ID)

flight_track = FlightStats::FlightStatus.track_by_flight_id 1234

Flight tracks arriving on date (starting from specified hour of day)

flight_tracks = FlightStats::FlightStatus.track_arriving_on 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Flight tracks departing on date (starting from specified hour of day)

flight_tracks = FlightStats::FlightStatus.track_departing_on 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Schedules/Connections

Direct scheduled flights by arrival location and date

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_arriving_at 'EWR', 2013, 5, 1

Direct scheduled flights by departure location and departure date

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_departing_from 'EWR', 2013, 5, 1

Direct scheduled flights by carrier, flight number, and arrival date(s)

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_arriving_by_flight_number 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Direct scheduled flights by carrier, flight number, arrival location and arrival date(s)

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_arriving_by_flight_number_and_location 'UA', 901, 'FRA', 2013, 5, 1

Direct scheduled flights by carrier, flight number, and departure date(s)

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_arriving_by_flight_number 'UA', 901, 2013, 5, 1

Direct scheduled flights by carrier, flight number, departure location and departure date(s)

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_arriving_by_flight_number_and_location 'UA', 901, 'FRA', 2013, 5, 1

Direct and connecting scheduled flights between two locations by arrival date

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_and_connecting_arriving 'SFO', 'FRA', 2013, 5, 1

Direct and connecting scheduled flights between two locations by departure date

flights = FlightStats::Flight.direct_and_connecting_departing 'SFO', 'FRA', 2013, 5, 1

Contributing

There are two sets of tests.

The default one uses mock HTTP calls and can be run via:

rake test:spec

The remote ones will issue HTTP calls to FlightStats. You need to update your API credentials in spec/spec_helper.rb before running them:

rake test:remote:spec

License

(The MIT License.)

© 2013 DidItClear

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