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Alejandro

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Apr 18, 2026, 3:01:19 PM (7 days ago) Apr 18
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Hello everyone. Is there any way to bring the data from a station from aprs.fi? I am trying to do it with this command

https://api.aprs.fi/api/get?name={$call}&what=loc&apikey={$APRS_API_KEY}&format=json

but it doesn't work, it tells me query rate limited, and it's the first time I use it.

Heikki Hannikainen

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Apr 18, 2026, 4:14:49 PM (7 days ago) Apr 18
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There are quite a few clients using that successfully, so it's not
outright broken.

If you can provide a timestamp when you're calling it (accurate to the
second, UTC, please), and the name/callsign you're looking up, I can check
from the logs what is going wrong.

Perhaps there were some accidental extra calls to the API which caused it
to be rate limited, or perhaps the new API implementation is returning the
wrong error code for some other issue. It's new code, it might have bugs.

- Hessu

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