Was the power out at this address at a given time

Three parameters together answer it: a point, how close, and when.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AOT_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.aussieoutagetracker.com.au/v1/outages?near=-37.8136,144.9631&radius_km=0&active_at=2026-10-14T04:00:00Z"

• near=lat,lng — the address, geocoded by you. Latitude first.
• radius_km=0 — the point itself must fall inside the outage's area.
• active_at — the moment. An outage is in effect at it when it had started by then and had not yet been restored. Cancelled work is excluded: it never happened.

The example asks about 3:00pm in Melbourne on Tue 14 Oct 2026, which is 04:00Z in daylight saving. Give instants in UTC with Z, or with an offset written as %2B11:00: a literal + in a URL means a space, and the request is refused. A bare local time is ambiguous across a daylight-saving change.

The answer is only as good as the shape

radius_km=0 asks whether the point is inside a published footprint. That is the precise question for networks that publish areas, and it cannot match a network that publishes only a point, because a point has no inside. Several do — AusNet, Ausgrid, Horizon Power and Power and Water among them — and Networks and coverage lists which.

For an address in a point-publishing network's territory, widen the radius and read the results as candidates rather than proof:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AOT_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.aussieoutagetracker.com.au/v1/outages?near=-38.1100,145.2830&radius_km=2&active_at=2026-10-14T04:00:00Z"

Then confirm against each outage's location.localities (the network's own list of affected places) or filter by the address's suburb with suburb= instead — see Outages in a suburb. A result with location.approximate: true is near the address; it is not evidence the address was off.

How "restored by then" is decided

An outage stops being in effect at its restored_at. Where the network publishes a restoration time, that is the network's (restored_at_basis: reported). Where it does not, it is when the outage left the network's feed (observed), which is accurate to the few minutes between polls. See Outages.