A professional-grade utility for monitoring live aircraft movements and retrieving detailed airport flight schedules.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install flight-tracker
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install flight-tracker using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Flight Tracker?
The Flight Tracker skill provides developers and AI agents with real-time access to global flight data and comprehensive scheduling information. By leveraging the OpenSky Network and AviationStack APIs, this addition to Openclaw Skills allows for precise monitoring of airspace activity, aircraft performance metrics, and arrival/departure logistics. Whether you need to track a specific aircraft by its callsign or analyze the traffic density over a specific region, this tool provides the necessary technical infrastructure.
This skill is designed to be highly accessible, offering both anonymous access for live tracking and authenticated requests for detailed schedule data. It serves as a foundational component for building aviation-aware applications within the Openclaw Skills ecosystem, enabling users to transform complex flight telemetry into actionable insights.
Flight Tracker Use Cases
- Monitor all aircraft currently navigating within specific geographical bounding boxes like Switzerland or Europe.
- Track the real-time altitude, velocity, and heading of a specific flight using its callsign or ICAO24 hex code.
- Retrieve structured arrival and departure schedules between major international airport hubs for logistics planning.
- Automate airspace surveillance for specific regions to identify incoming or outgoing traffic at local airports.
- Generate direct search links for popular aviation platforms when live API data is not required.
How Flight Tracker Works
- The user or agent initiates a request via Openclaw Skills specifying a region, callsign, or airport pair.
- For live tracking, the skill executes a GET request to the OpenSky Network REST API using geographic coordinates or aircraft identifiers.
- The system parses the raw state vectors, extracting critical telemetry such as barometric altitude, ground speed, and vertical rate.
- For scheduling queries, the tool utilizes the AviationStack API to fetch flight times, terminals, and gate information.
- If no API key is provided, the skill intelligently generates deep-links to external tracking services like FlightRadar24 and Google Flights.
Flight Tracker Setup
To integrate this capability into your environment, ensure Python 3 is installed. While basic tracking is available anonymously, detailed schedules require an API key.
# Optional: Set your AviationStack API key for detailed schedules
export AVIATIONSTACK_API_KEY='your_key_here'
# Track flights over a specific pre-defined region
python3 scripts/track.py --region switzerland
# Search for schedules between two airports (IATA codes)
python3 scripts/schedule.py HAM ZRH
Flight Tracker Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill processes aircraft state vectors and schedule metadata organized in the following structure:
| Attribute | Description | Data Type |
|---|---|---|
| icao24 | Unique ICAO 24-bit address of the transponder | String (Hex) |
| callsign | Identification callsign of the flight | String |
| baro_altitude | Barometric altitude in meters | Float |
| velocity | Ground speed in meters per second | Float |
| vertical_rate | Rate of climb or descent (m/s) | Float |
| origin_country | Country where the aircraft is registered | String |
| origin | Departure airport ICAO code (if available) | String |
Flight Tracker Advanced Features
- Pre-defined bounding boxes for major European regions and Swiss airspaces for instant monitoring.
- High-frequency data refresh rates supporting updates every 10 seconds for mission-critical tracking.
- Support for both ICAO and IATA airport coding standards to ensure compatibility across different aviation datasets.
- Seamless integration with the Openclaw Skills framework for natural language queries regarding live flight status.
- Fallback mechanism that provides curated search links to airline websites and flight trackers when API limits are reached.
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