Guides
The Aussie Outage Tracker API gives you every Australian electricity network's outages in one normalised shape: what is off right now, and everything recorded since each network's archive began. These guides take you from a first call to production, then explain the data well enough to trust it.
Getting started
What the API is, what it covers, and what it is not.
A key, a first call and how to read what comes back.
Sending your key, and what a refused key looks like.
What counts as a call, what it costs, and how you are charged.
How fast a key may call, and what to do when it is told to wait.
One error envelope, seven codes, and what to do about each.
Cursors, and why they are not page numbers.
What /v1 promises, and what would make a /v2.
Recipes
Live outages, for a state or for everywhere.
Find a suburb's id, then filter by it.
A point, a moment, and the outages in effect there.
Read only what changed since your last sync.
Outages, customers and durations over a window.
Data model
The outage object, field by field.
The five lifecycle states and how to count them.
One cause vocabulary across every network.
How an outage is placed in a suburb.
Each network, and what it does and does not publish.
How the data is checked, and its known limits.
Prefer to read the endpoints first? The API reference lists every parameter and field, with a real response for each.