Non professional user here who feeds ADS-B data and gets access to more flight alerts than the free tier
Wanting to be able to add a list of flights on different dates to the alerts using some kind of import that varies every week and every month, depending on my other half’s schedule. I do it manually, which works but it would be nice to create an import file each month with all the flights and have everything loaded automatically
THere is no csv import function I can find but I found AeroAPI but not sure that solve smy probelm in the free tier (if at all)
Yes, AeroAPI would allow you to automate your alerts. However, at this time, FlightAware does not support importing a CSV file directly to create flight alerts in bulk. Instead, alerts must be created by submitting an API request for each individual flight.
If you have your flights in a CSV file, you can automate this process by developing a script or using an integration platform to:
Read each row of the CSV file.
Submit an API request to create an alert for that flight.
Repeat the process until all flights have been processed.
This approach allows you to use your existing CSV as the source of your flight list while automating the creation of alerts without manually entering each flight.
Per our website users subscribed to the Personal tier of AeroAPI may receive a usage credit up to $5 a month for standard users, and up to $10 a month for ADS-B Feeder Hosts. Please ensure that you contact our General Support team at support@flightaware.com if you are a Feeder Host to confirm that your credit is properly applied to your account.
When creating alerts, it is not advised to start the alert the same day as our API defaults to a start time of 00:00Z. If you create an alert after this time to begin on the same day, then it will result in an error. Please try creating an alert beginning 1-2 days in advance and not setting an end date. You can turn off the alert when it is no longer relevant to your needs in lieu of adding an end date.
API push alerts will not automatically retry once they fail. In order to resolve this, we kindly ask that you delete the current alert and reconfigure it if you receive an error message.
