django-airports-apis

Airport data for Django. Using different API Endpoints

Features

1. Fetch Airport data from different API's
2. django-modeltranslation support
3. Basic views and serializers for django-rest-framework

Basic setup

Install django-airports-apis via PyPI

pip install django-airports-apis

Add airports to installed apps and configure your preferred API:

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'airports'
    ...
)

AIRPORT_API = {'openflights': ('airports.openflights.OpenFlights',{})}

Then run /manage.py migrate to sync your database.

Call the management command to fetch airports from the selected API (this may take a while):

/manage.py load_airports            #fetches airport data from API
/manage.py load_airports --flush    #deletes all airport records

Provided API Backends

openflights.org

Openflights provides free English airport data. You don't need to register to use this API:

# settings.py
AIRPORT_API = {'openflights': ('airports.openflights.OpenFlights',{})}

flightstats.com

Go to flightstats.com and register for an account. As soon as your account is active you can use the multilingual airport data. At the moment it supports 8 different languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Arabic

# settings.py
AIRPORT_API = {'flighstats': ('airports.flightstats.Flightstats',
                              {'app_id' : '1234asdfc',
                               'app_key' : 'asg5j67hzergrgevwe'}),}

Modeltranslation

The package supports django-modeltranslation out of the box. If the API supports different languages (like flightstats.com), the management command will automatically fetch the languages specified in your settings.py.

Rest Framework

The package also includes some basic support for django-rest-framework. To activate the views simply include the urls in your urls.py:

#urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'api/',include('airports.urls'),),
    ...
)

Example Application

Please see the example application. This was used to test the developed features. It also serves as a nice quicklook into django-airport-apis.