Opensky
live AviationTransportOpenSky Network API — live aircraft positions, flight history by callsign/ICAO24, and airspace activity summaries (free, anonymous access).
Tools
get_states Live ADS-B state vectors for aircraft currently transmitting — position, barometric and geometric altitude (metres), velocity (m/s), heading, vertical rate, squawk, and on-ground flag, plus registrati
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get_aircraft Look up one aircraft by its ICAO24 transponder address (hex, e.g. "3c675a") and return where it is right now: position, altitude, speed, heading, squawk, registration, type and operator. Keyless. Hist
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get_flights Historical flight legs (departure and arrival airports) for a past time window. NOT AVAILABLE from a hosted environment: OpenSky is the only source of this data and it cannot be reached from cloud inf
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airspace_activity Summary of live flight activity over a named region — aircraft count, country-of-registration breakdown, average altitude, and airborne vs on-ground split. Built for "is this airspace still operating"
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Test with curl
The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opensky/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/opensky/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_states","arguments":{}}}'Use with the SDK
Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("get_states", {});// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("opensky network api — live aircraft positions, flight history by callsign/icao24, and airspace activity summaries (free, anonymous access)");Related packs
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