http://status.vatsim.net/status.txt

[Kim Strandsbjerg]

Hi

Does this address still work when fetching data to for example Aivlasoft EFB?

Best regards 

Kim 962820

[Martijn Rammeloo]

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[Kim Strandsbjerg]

HI Martijn

Just to be sure, I have to use https://data.vatsim.net/v3/vatsim-data.json?

I cant get https://status.vatsim.net/status.json  to work. 

[Tobias Dammers]

https://data.vatsim.net/v3/vatsim-data.json currently works, but there is no guarantee that the address will remain valid; it can change without prior notice at any point, and load balancing may be introduced at some point as well.

The proper procedure is to query https://status.vatsim.net/status.json first, which will give you a JSON object that tells you which URLs to use for the datafeed API. At the time of writing, the JSON response you get looks like this:

{
  "data": {
    "v3": [
      "https://data.vatsim.net/v3/vatsim-data.json"
    ],
    "transceivers": [
      "https://data.vatsim.net/v3/transceivers-data.json"
    ],
    "servers": [
      "https://data.vatsim.net/v3/vatsim-servers.json"
    ]
  },
  "user": [
    "https://stats.vatsim.net/search_id.php"
  ],
  "metar": [
    "http://metar.vatsim.net/metar.php"
  ]
}

All you need to know out of all that is the data.v3 element, which is a list of URLs to use for the datafeed API. Currently, that list has only one entry, so that's the URL you need to use, but your code should be prepared to handle lists with multiple entries, and pick one of them at random for load balancing purposes.

[Kim Strandsbjerg]

OK. thanks for the explanation. 

I can´t seem to get them working though.