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FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper
Track public flights on FlightAware by flight number with airline, origin, destination, scheduled and actual departure, scheduled and actual arrival, aircraft, status, gate, and URL. Useful for delay monitoring, travel apps, logistics workflows, and operations dashboards.
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📡 FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper
🚀 Export FlightAware public flight tracker data in seconds. Scheduled times, actuals, aircraft, gate, status - one flight number at a time.
🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 14 fields per flight · Worldwide coverage · Scheduled and actual times · Gate and aircraft type
The FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper fetches public flight tracker pages from flightaware.com and parses scheduled/actual times, aircraft type, origin, destination, gate, and status for any flight number you supply.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| ✈️ Aviation enthusiasts | Track specific flights |
| 📊 Operations teams | Monitor your carrier's on-time perf |
| 📰 Aviation journalists | Verify flight details |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Build delay-prediction datasets |
| 👩💻 Developers | Mirror FA public tracker into your app |
📋 What the FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper does
- Fetches the public tracker page for each flight number.
- Extracts the trackpollBootstrap JSON embedded in HTML.
- Returns scheduled and actual departure/arrival times, aircraft, origin/destination, status, gate.
- Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.
💡 Why it matters: FlightAware's public pages have the cleanest single-flight view in aviation. This actor turns them into a structured feed without an enterprise contract.
🎬 Full Demo
🚧 Coming soon.
⚙️ Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
flightNumbers | array | No | List of flight numbers / callsigns. |
maxItems | integer | No | Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000. |
Example 1:
Example 2 - multiple flights:
⚠️ Good to Know: Use the full ICAO callsign (UAL100), not the IATA flight number (UA100), for best results.
📊 Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
🆔 flightNumber | string | Flight callsign. |
✈️ airline | string | Operating airline. |
🛫 origin | string | Origin IATA/ICAO. |
🛬 destination | string | Destination. |
📅 scheduledDep | string | Scheduled departure. |
⏰ actualDep | string | Actual departure. |
📅 scheduledArr | string | Scheduled arrival. |
⏰ actualArr | string | Actual arrival. |
🛩️ aircraft | string | Aircraft type. |
📡 status | string | Scheduled, en route, landed. |
🚪 gate | string | Gate. |
🔗 url | string | Tracker URL. |
🕒 scrapedAt | string | Fetched at. |
❌ error | string | Set on error. |
✨ Why choose this Actor
| 📡 | Real FlightAware data, single-flight precision. | | ⚡ | One HTTP roundtrip per flight. | | 🧹 | Parses embedded trackpollBootstrap JSON. | | 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML export. |
📈 How it compares to alternatives
| Approach | Setup | Single-flight detail | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| FlightAware AeroAPI | hours + contract | yes | $$$ |
| Roll your own | 2 hrs | manual | free |
| This Actor | 5 sec | yes | free tier |
🚀 How to use
- Click Try for free.
- Type a flight number.
- Click Start.
💼 Business use cases
✈️ Crew ops. Track inbound aircraft. 📊 Performance monitoring. Audit on-time stats. 📰 Newsroom. Verify flight details on breaking stories. 🤖 Modelling. Delay prediction training.
🔌 Automating FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper
- Make / Zapier: poll inbound flights.
- Cron: hourly status pulls.
- Webhooks: instant push.
- BigQuery: native pipeline.
🌟 Beyond business use cases
🎓 Education. Aviation analytics teaching. 🧪 Personal. Track family flights. 🤝 Non-profit. Volunteer pilot dashboards. 🧰 Tinkering. Discord arrivals bot.
🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper
Drop this README into ChatGPT or Claude for pipeline help.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
❓ API key? No. ❓ Single flight or many? Pass an array. ❓ Live updates? Yes, page refreshes. ❓ Gate info? Yes when published. ❓ Format? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML. ❓ Schedule? Yes. ❓ Rate-limited? Be reasonable. ❓ Free tier? 10 flights preview. ❓ Schema stable? Core fields stable. ❓ ICAO or IATA? ICAO callsign recommended.
🔌 Integrate with any app
Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, REST/webhook.
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