Skylite Weather API

Provide METAR/TAF information to end users, and fetch NOAA every 5 minutes.

We are hosting our own deployment at https://weather.api.skylitefly.com/

API

GET /healthz

Health check.

GET /api/icao/<airport-icao>

Return METAR and TAF information.

Example: request:

GET /icao/ZGGG HTTP/1.1

response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

{"success":true,"data":{"airport":"ZGGG","metar":"ZGGG 081000Z 10002MPS 9999 -SHRA FEW016 BKN033 28/26 Q1000 NOSIG","taf":"ZGGG 080903Z 0812/0918 01005MPS 6000 SHRA FEW010 FEW026CB BKN033 TX27/0812Z TX29/0907Z TN24/0822Z TEMPO 0812/0816 2500 +TSRA SCT026CB BKN033 BECMG 0817/0818 NSW BKN033 TEMPO 0819/0824 SHRA FEW026CB BKN033"}}

Configuration

Env	Description	Required
SKYLITE_AVWX_TOKEN	Used as an fallback when no available data in Redis	Yes
SKYLITE_AVWX_BASE_URL	Base URL for avwx.rest API	No
SKYLITE_REDIS_WEATHER_LOCATION	Redis URL for storaging METARs	Yes
SKYLITE_REDIS_WEATHER_PASSWORD	Redis password	No
SKYLITE_REDIS_WEATHER_KEY_PREFIX	Redis key prefix	No