Flight Recorder for BoardConnect

recorder.py

# Flight Recorder for BoardConnect (Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co. KG)
# Records flight data in a csv format, see the headers variable for the headers.

import requests
import csv
from time import sleep

header = ('utc', 'flightNumber', 'aircraftRegistration', 'aircraftType', 'callSign', 'altitude', 'groundSpeed', 'heading', 'lon', 'lat', 'distDest', 'temperature')
first = True

with open("flight.csv", 'a', newline='') as f:
    writer = csv.DictWriter(f, header)
    writer.writeheader()
    try:
        while True:
            json_data = requests.get("https://www.boardconnect.aero/map/api/flightData").json()
            utc = json_data['utc']
            # Strip out the excess data, stripping whitespace from strings in the process
            data = {k: (v.rstrip() if type(v) == str else v) for k, v in json_data.items() if k in header}
            print(utc, data)
            writer.writerow(data)
            # Data seems to only update every 5 seconds
            sleep(5)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print("Exiting...")