Retrieve Parks on the Air activation spots and park reference data
domain: pota.app · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Send a GET request to https://api.pota.app/spot/activator to retrieve the current list of live activator spots as JSON.
Send a GET request to https://api.pota.app/park/{reference} (e.g. US-0001) to retrieve metadata for a specific park reference.
Send a GET request to https://api.pota.app/spot/comments/{activator}/{park} to retrieve spotting comments tied to a specific activation.
Treat all of these as unauthenticated read-only GET endpoints, but verify current response shape empirically since POTA's own docs site (docs.pota.app/api) marks the public API reference as still 'under construction.'
Cross-check endpoint behavior against actively maintained open-source POTA API client code before depending on a specific field name in production.
Known gotchas
POTA has not published formal, versioned API documentation as of this writing; endpoints are stable in practice but not contractually guaranteed, so build in tolerance for schema drift.
There is no documented authentication for these read endpoints, but posting spots or reading per-user private stats requires the logged-in web app flow, not a public write API.
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