Retrieve Summits on the Air activation spots for a summit or callsign
domain: sota.org.uk · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Send a GET request to https://api-db2.sota.org.uk/api/spots/{minutes}/all/all, where {minutes} is a lookback window (documented as usable from roughly 15 minutes up to 24 hours).
Parse the JSON array of spot objects, each including the activator callsign, summit reference, frequency/mode, and free-text comment.
Cross-reference a spot's summit reference against the SOTA summits reference data (sotadata.org.uk) to enrich it with summit name, altitude, region, and point value.
Filter results client-side by activator callsign, association/region prefix, or mode, since the public spots endpoint does not appear to expose full server-side filtering in its documented form.
Verify field names against a live response before building a production integration, since SOTA's API is used by third-party tools but is not a formally versioned, guaranteed-stable product.
Known gotchas
Formal API documentation is sparse and hard to find, per SOTA's own community reflector discussions; behavior here is inferred from third-party client implementations rather than an official spec.
No authentication is published as required for the spots endpoint, but this could change without notice since it is not a documented, stable contract.
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