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Some ADS-B API link notes (hoping to be able to get from/to airport data from it)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/28

For my link archive initiated because I was trying to find out why ADS-B Exchange does not list originating and destination airports for flights, then on how to get at that data.

It is grouped in a few parts, starting with:

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Reminder to self: re-check the Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/04

Still public merchant information

Still public merchant information

It looks like some store and merchang APIs were not protected back when [Wayback/Archive] Dotpe API Security Breach — bool.dev was published.

Reminder to self: check their status now as I can’t believe their “human error” got fixed properly.

History (reverse chronological order):

  1. [Wayback/Archive] How DotPe’s ‘Human Error’ Exposed Confidential Customer API Data
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “Today, Google-backed DotPe locked down their APIs by rate-limiting by IP on /external/merchant and blocking others. They sent a legal notice to the author before fixing it and haven’t publicly acknowledged the issue at all. Companies must be held accountable for poor security.…”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYSlTthakAEoojp.png:orig (2346×1838)

  3. Now protected private API

    Now protected private API

    [Wayback/Archive] Deedy on X: “6 hours later, the API is still very much public! …”

    [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON: [Wayback/Archive] GYK38dXbkAEEEs_.jpg:orig (1358×1798)

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Some resources on CORS proxies

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/04/19

Having my background before the web-development era, and having lived mostly in back-ends or client-server front-ends, I sometimes need to really dig into things in order to understand them better.

CORS is such a thing, so below are some links to get started. My main interest is CORS proxies as they will force me do go deep and really get what is going on below the surface.

Defunct CORS proxy sites:

Used searches:

–jeroen

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Random User Generator | Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/23

Cool tool for when you ever need random users to test a system [Wayback] Random User Generator | Home:

Random user generator is a FREE API for generating placeholder user information. Get profile photos, names, and more. It’s like Lorem Ipsum, for people.

This was used when extracting Parler data to substantiate evidence around the 20210106 USA Capitol riots.

You can even use a simple HTTP GET like [Wayback] randomuser.me/api and get a JSON result like this.

{"results":[{"gender":"female","name":{"title":"Miss","first":"Malou","last":"Mortensen"},"location":{"street":{"number":2669,"name":"Lyngbyvej"},"city":"Sundby","state":"Syddanmark","country":"Denmark","postcode":48047,"coordinates":{"latitude":"-35.1307","longitude":"113.7480"},"timezone":{"offset":"+1:00","description":"Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris"}},"email":"malou.mortensen@example.com","login":{"uuid":"981747de-66fe-40b0-87ea-adfe403fe1be","username":"purpleostrich871","password":"sweets","salt":"x86aQbIB","md5":"55497ac53530b428f98b9d36267ceeef","sha1":"358b94ffabe7d827c34da15791e5d6717c594428","sha256":"6e357e887877e29b7e6d53073f648174382c53c24f83479e25fed9c82075ed32"},"dob":{"date":"1995-06-05T04:50:35.145Z","age":26},"registered":{"date":"2018-07-21T00:59:50.523Z","age":3},"phone":"02990797","cell":"94800012","id":{"name":"CPR","value":"050695-9954"},"picture":{"large":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/women/27.jpg","medium":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/med/women/27.jpg","thumbnail":"https://randomuser.me/api/portraits/thumb/women/27.jpg"},"nat":"DK"}],"info":{"seed":"8971869bb62b73d7","results":1,"page":1,"version":"1.3"}}

Via:

–jeroen

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JSONPlaceholder – Fake online REST API for developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/25

A great way for testing REST JSON calls is using the [WayBack] JSONPlaceholder – Fake online REST API for developers:

Fake Online REST API for Testing and Prototyping
Serving ~200M requests per month
Powered by JSON Server [WayBack] + LowDB [WayBack]

It is like [WayBack] Placeholder.com: Placeholder Images Done For You [JPG, GIF & PNG] but for JSON and supports both CORS and JSON-P for cross domain requests.

You can either use that site (which has a predefined set of REST calls) or the basic [WayBack] My JSON Server – Fake online REST server for teams that allows you to respond it to a db.json file from github:

Fake Online REST server for teams

Create a JSON file on GitHub

github.com/user/repo/master/db.json
{
  "posts": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "title": "hello"
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "name": "typicode"
  }
}

Get instantly a fake server

my-json-server.typicode.com/user/repo/posts/1
{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "hello"
}

Related

Documentation

There is basic documentation at the repository [WayBack] GitHub – typicode/jsonplaceholder: A simple online fake REST API server:

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Insomnia REST Client

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/05/12

[WayBack] Insomnia REST Client  A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication for Mac, Window, and Linux.

Source code at [WayBack] GitHub – getinsomnia/insomnia: The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client 😴.

Via: [WayBack] Paw is nice – The Isoblog.

–jeroen

 

 

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Links to alternatives for Delphi REST clients

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/13

A few good links to a few alternatives for the built in Delphi REST client [WayBack] Hi looking for good and complete tutorial/course how to create RESTFul services with Delphi. Or if anyone use Delphi for creating RESTFul services feedb… – Gordan Paunovic – Google+

–jeroen

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Need to put some research in Google Calendar support for EXRULE and EXDATE

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/15

Though the Google Calendar UI does not support EXRULE and EXDATE to exclude certain slots (via dates or rules) from recurring events.

The API supports them: [WayBack] Google Calendar API, RRULE and EXDATE – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

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(52) You Give REST a Bad Name – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/02

(Usually the “state transfer” in Representational state transfer fails)

Video via +Kristian Köhntopp “Die 90er haben angerufen und wollen ihre Amiga Videos und ihre Corba Specs zurück haben.” (the 90s called wanting their Amiga Videos and Corba Specs back)

[WayBack] https://plus.google.com/+KristianK%C3%B6hntopp/posts/58D9BisX5Dj

–jeroen

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Sending various HTTP request kinds using curl

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/25

I’ve been using cURL but always had a feeling not to its potential basically because the cURL man page [WayBack] is both massive and lacks concrete useful practical examples.

For instance, I knew about the --header and --verbose options (I always use verbose names even though shorter -H and -v exist) to pass a specific header and get verbose output, but the man page basic examples like this by Tader:

curl --header --verbose "X-MyHeader: 123" www.google.com

source: How to send a header using a HTTP request through a curl call? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

There are some more examples at bropages.org/curl but they’re hardly organised or documented.

So I was really glad I found the below answer [WayBack] by Amith Koujalgi to web services – HTTP POST and GET using cURL in Linux – Stack Overflow.

But first note that recent versions (around 7.22 or higher) of cURL now need to combine the --silent and --show-error (or in short -sS) parameters to suppress progress but show errors: linux – How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

Back to the examples

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