About Spothole
Spothole is a utility to aggregate "spots" from amateur radio DX clusters and xOTA spotting sites, and provide an open JSON API as well as a website to browse the data.
While there are several other web-based interfaces to DX clusters, and sites that aggregate spots from various outdoor activity programmes for amateur radio, Spothole differentiates itself by supporting a larger number of data sources, and by being "API first" rather than just providing a web front-end. This allows other software to be built on top of it.
The API is deliberately well-defined with an OpenAPI specification and API documentation. The API delivers spots in a consistent format regardless of the data source, freeing developers from needing to know how each individual data source presents its data.
Spothole itself is also open source, Public Domain licenced code that anyone can take and modify. The source code is here.
This server is running Spothole version 2.2.
