Lighthouses API
Use this API to make lighthouse reference data searchable for maps, travel products, maritime history, and education apps. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.
Use Cases
- build maritime heritage maps
- enrich travel and coastal datasets
- filter landmarks by country and operational status
Access
These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.
Open the RapidAPI listing to subscribe, test requests, and get your API key.
Endpoints
/api/lighthouses/lighthousesList lighthouses or filter by name, country, continent, location, status, established year, or free text.
Query parameters: name, country, continent, location, status, established_from, established_to, q, limit
/api/lighthouses/lighthouses?name=example&country=example
/api/lighthouses/countriesList countries and territories represented in the dataset.
/api/lighthouses/countries
/api/lighthouses/continentsList source continents represented in the dataset.
/api/lighthouses/continents
/api/lighthouses/statusesList lighthouse status values found in the dataset.
/api/lighthouses/statuses
/api/lighthouses/sourcesList Wikipedia source pages used for collection.
/api/lighthouses/sources
Pricing
- Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
- Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
- Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.
Data Notes
Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 30d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.
Primary table: lighthouses