Retrieve current and hourly-estimated airport security checkpoint wait times for a specific U.S. airport via a third-party wait-time API.
domain: tsawaittimes.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create a free account at tsawaittimes.com/myaccount and verify your email address — this is required before any API call will succeed.
Start the free trial or purchase a self-service monthly subscription to activate your API key.
Call the airports list endpoint (passing your API key and desired response format) to get the supported airports and their 3-character codes.
Call the per-airport endpoint with a specific airport code to get the current estimated wait time, hourly wait-time estimates, PreCheck checkpoint status, and any FAA ground-stop/delay alerts.
Optionally submit a crowd-sourced wait-time report via the report-time endpoint to contribute data back to the service.
Request the JSON or XML response format explicitly; JSON is returned by default if omitted.
Known gotchas
This is an independent third-party service (TayTech LLC), not TSA or DHS — the official public TSA wait-time web tool has been deprecated and there is currently no government-run public API for checkpoint wait times.
Requests fail with distinct error states for 'account not verified' vs. 'no active subscription' — completing signup isn't enough; you also need an active trial or paid plan.
The docs explicitly warn against calling the API from browser-side JavaScript (no CORS support, and it would expose your key) — proxy calls through your own backend.
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