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Community Feed

The Community Feed allows you to share received AIS messages with the AIS-catcher community.

AIS-catcher -X [sharing_key]

On the CLI, -X enables sharing. If you provide a sharing key, the station is linked to your account; if omitted, sharing is anonymous.

In JSON configuration, Community Feed settings are configured via the root-level keys sharing and sharing_key (they are not part of an output array like udp).

Summary Settings

Setting (JSON key / CLI setting name) Type Default Description
sharing boolean - Enable community feed sharing (CLI equivalent: -X)
sharing_key string - Optional sharing key to associate your station with aiscatcher.org (CLI: -X <key>)