Last updated: January 2026
PocketWorld exposes 50+ JSON endpoints aggregating live data on flights, ships, satellites, weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, wildfires, and more — pulled from NASA, NOAA, USGS, OpenSky Network, CelesTrak, Open-Meteo, AIS, FAA, and other authoritative sources.
No API key. No registration. Open CORS. Use these endpoints in research, side-projects, AI agents, dashboards — anything that needs live planetary data without dealing with 30 different upstream APIs.
/api/flights — All live aircraft worldwide (~10,000), merged ADS-B from OpenSky + FlightRadar24 + adsb.lol, deduplicated by callsign./api/airport/{IATA_or_ICAO}/flights — Arrivals and departures for any airport. Example: /api/airport/JFK/flights/api/airports — Directory of 200+ major airports with metadata./api/airport-delays — Live airport delay statistics./api/notams — Live FAA NOTAMs across 17 FIRs (no-fly zones, hazards), Q-line parsed, 15-min cache./api/flight-track/{icao24} — Recent track for a specific aircraft./api/ships — All live vessels worldwide (~19,000) from AIS WebSocket./api/ports — Directory of 467 major commercial ports./api/port-info/{key} — Detailed information for any port./api/sst — Global sea surface temperature grid (NOAA)./api/iss — Current International Space Station position (lat/lon/alt/speed)./api/iss-passes/{city_slug} — Predicted ISS passes for a city. Example: /api/iss-passes/london/api/tle-catalog — Full CelesTrak catalog (17,000+ objects), TLE + SATCAT, gzip-cached for 6h./api/tle/{norad_id} — Two-Line Elements for any NORAD ID. Example: /api/tle/25544 (ISS)./api/launches — Upcoming rocket launches (Launch Library 2)./api/planets — Solar system planet positions (JPL Horizons), 1h cache./api/asteroids — Near-Earth objects from NASA NeoWs./api/space-weather — NOAA SWPC: solar flares, K-index, CMEs./api/deep-space/{object_id} — Deep-space object information./api/quakes — Earthquakes worldwide, USGS + EMSC merged, deduplicated./api/volcanoes — Active volcanoes, NASA EONET + NOAA NCEI merged./api/storms — Tropical cyclones, NOAA NHC + NASA EONET + GDACS merged./api/wildfires — Active fires, NASA EONET + NASA FIRMS merged./api/floods — Active floods, NASA EONET + GDACS merged./api/drought — Drought events, NASA EONET + GDACS merged with static fallback./api/tsunamis — Tsunami alerts, USGS + PTWC./api/disaster-news — Humanitarian news from ReliefWeb + Google News./api/weather/{country_code} — Current weather for major cities of any country (Open-Meteo). Example: /api/weather/US/api/weather/cities — Pre-batched current weather for 121 global cities./api/air-quality — Open-Meteo AQI for 20 major cities (batch)./api/lightning — Real-time lightning strikes (Blitzortung MQTT)./api/countries — All 197 countries./api/country-info/{code} — Capital, population, languages, etc. Example: /api/country-info/JP/api/currency/{country_code} — Local currency + exchange rates. Example: /api/currency/JP/api/holidays/{country_code} — Public holidays. Example: /api/holidays/US/api/news/{country_code} — Latest news per country. Example: /api/news/US/api/top-news — Aggregated top headlines./api/webcams/{country_code} — Live webcams. Example: /api/webcams/JP/api/crypto — Top cryptocurrencies, prices, 24h change./api/crypto/{coin_id}/history — Price history./api/stock/{symbol}/history — Stock price history./api/commodity/{symbol}/history — Commodity price history./api/radio/{country_code} — Free streaming radio stations per country. Example: /api/radio/US/api/tv/{country_code} — Free streaming TV channels (HLS). Example: /api/tv/USContent-Type: application/json.Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *) — use directly from any web app.Free. No key, no signup, no quota beyond reasonable rate limits. PocketWorld is funded by display ads on the main globe interface; the APIs themselves carry no ads. If you'd like to sponsor or partner, get in touch.