SpaceTradersAPI API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://api.spacetraders.io/v2

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 3,220 bytes

Response time

302 ms (median of 3) · fastest 298 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 · certificate issued by Let's Encrypt

Browser CORS

Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

Rate limit

Retry-After: 1s (1 remaining at test time)

Recorded

2026-08-10

Fields Returned

Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://api.spacetraders.io/v2 on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "status": "SpaceTraders is currently online and available to play",
  "version": "v2.3.0",
  "resetDate": "2026-08-09",
  "description": "SpaceTraders is a headless API and fleet-management game where players can work together or against each other to trade, explore, expand, and conquer in a dy…",
  "stats": {
    "agents": 70,
    "ships": 3480,
    "systems": 6962,
    "waypoints": 202462,
    "accounts": 4553
  },
  "health": {
    "lastMarketUpdate": "2026-08-10T19:50:16.213Z"
  },
  "leaderboards": {
    "mostCredits": [
      {
        "…": "(2 more fields)"
      }
    ],
    "mostSubmittedCharts": [
      {
        "…": "(2 more fields)"
      }
    ]
  },
  "serverResets": {
    "next": "2026-08-16T13:00:00.000Z",
    "frequency": "weekly"
  },
  "announcements": [
    {
      "title": "Server Resets",
      "body": "We will be doing complete server resets frequently during the alpha to deploy fixes, add new features, and balance the game. Resets will typically be conduct…"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "name": "Website",
      "url": "https://spacetraders.io"
    }
  ]
}

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

const url = "https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/register";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

url = "https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/register"
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl -X POST "https://api.spacetraders.io/v2/register" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"symbol":"MY_AGENT","faction":"COSMIC"}'

What Can You Build?

// Fetch character or game data
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://spacetraders.io?rel=pub-apis`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const items = data.results || data.characters || data.data || [data];
const characters = Array.isArray(items) ? items : [items];
characters.slice(0, 5).forEach(c => {
  console.log(`🎮 ${c.name || c.title}: ${c.description || 'No description'}`);
});

// Get random trivia or game fact
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://spacetraders.io?rel=pub-apis`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const trivia = data.results?.[0] || data;
console.log('Trivia:', trivia.question || trivia.text || JSON.stringify(trivia));
if (trivia.correct_answer) {
  console.log('Answer:', trivia.correct_answer);
}

// Fetch game statistics
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' };
const response = await fetch(`https://spacetraders.io?rel=pub-apis`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Game data from SpaceTradersAPI:', data);
const entries = Array.isArray(data) ? data : data.data || data.results || [data];
entries.slice(0, 5).forEach((entry, i) => {
  console.log(`#${i+1}: ${entry.name || entry.title} - Score: ${entry.score || 'N/A'}`);
});

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

{
  "message": "Route GET:/apisscore-nonexistent-path not found",
  "error": "Not Found",
  "statusCode": 404
}

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.