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GET /v1/vam

Vertical ascent metres/hour

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api.oanor.com/cycling-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cycling-api/v1/vam" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cycling-api/v1/vam", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cycling-api/v1/vam");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/cycling-api/v1/vam",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "mode": "from elevation & time",
        "time_min": 60,
        "elevation_m": 1000,
        "vam_m_per_h": 1000
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-03T17:42:04.739Z",
        "request_id": "43aa179f-0bb7-4835-86cd-cb4673c3fd24"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "VAM",
    "success": true
}