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Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper
Capture live flights from Flightradar24 with flight ID, callsign, airline, aircraft type, registration, origin IATA, destination IATA, altitude, speed, heading, latitude, longitude, and status. Filter by bounds, airline, or route. Useful for aviation dashboards and travel apps.
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✈️ Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper
🚀 Export Flightradar24 live flight positions in seconds. Callsigns, airlines, aircraft types, altitudes, speeds, routes - all within your bounding box.
🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 16 fields per flight · Global bounding box · Real-time positions · Airline, origin, destination filters
The Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper queries FR24's public feed endpoint for live aircraft positions within any bounding box. Filter by airline, origin, or destination and export every flight in seconds.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| ✈️ Aviation enthusiasts | Track specific airlines or routes |
| 📊 Logistics analysts | Build congestion dashboards |
| 📰 Aviation journalists | Snapshot live air traffic |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Train flight prediction models |
| 👩💻 Developers | Mirror live traffic into your app |
📋 What the Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper does
- Queries FR24 live feed for a bounding box.
- Returns every airborne and on-ground aircraft inside.
- Filters by airline, origin IATA, destination IATA.
- Uses impit for Chrome TLS fingerprint to bypass bot detection.
- Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.
💡 Why it matters: FR24's live feed is the gold standard for ADS-B aggregation. This actor turns it into a clean structured dataset, no contract required.
🎬 Full Demo
🚧 Coming soon.
⚙️ Input
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
bounds | string | No | north,south,west,east. Default continental US. |
airline | string | No | ICAO substring filter (e.g. UAL). |
originIata | string | No | Origin IATA filter. |
destIata | string | No | Destination IATA filter. |
maxItems | integer | No | Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000. |
Example 1 - all US flights:
Example 2 - JFK departures:
⚠️ Good to Know: Tighter bounds = faster and more relevant. Don't query the entire planet at once.
📊 Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
🆔 flightId | string | FR24 hex ID. |
📡 callsign | string | Callsign. |
✈️ airline | string | ICAO airline. |
🛩️ aircraftType | string | Aircraft ICAO type. |
🔖 registration | string | Tail number. |
🛫 originIata | string | Origin IATA. |
🛬 destIata | string | Destination IATA. |
📈 altitude | number | Feet. |
💨 speed | number | Knots. |
🧭 heading | number | Degrees. |
🌐 lat | number | Latitude. |
🌐 lon | number | Longitude. |
📡 status | string | airborne or on_ground. |
🔗 url | string | FR24 detail URL. |
🕒 scrapedAt | string | Fetched at. |
❌ error | string | Set on error. |
✨ Why choose this Actor
| 🌐 | Global bounding box. | | 🛡️ | Chrome TLS via impit - bypasses basic bot walls. | | 🎯 | Airline, origin, destination filters. | | 🧹 | Clean flat schema. | | 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML export. |
📈 How it compares to alternatives
| Approach | Setup | TLS handling | Filters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roll your own | 2 hrs | manual | manual |
| FR24 paid API | $$ | yes | yes |
| This Actor | 5 sec | yes | yes |
🚀 How to use
- Click Try for free.
- Set a bounding box (default = US).
- Click Start.
💼 Business use cases
✈️ Airline ops. Snapshot competitor flight density. 📊 Logistics. Airspace congestion analysis. 📰 Newsroom. Instant aviation incident maps. 🤖 Modelling. ADS-B training data.
🔌 Automating Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper
- Make / Zapier: poll every 5 mins.
- Cron: hourly snapshots.
- Webhooks: instant push.
- BigQuery: native pipeline.
🌟 Beyond business use cases
🎓 Education. Aviation analytics teaching. 🧪 Personal. Track your incoming flight. 🤝 Non-profit. Noise-monitoring dashboards. 🧰 Tinkering. Discord plane-spotting bot.
🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper
Drop this README into ChatGPT or Claude for ideas.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
❓ API key? No. ❓ Global coverage? Yes, bounding box. ❓ Filters? Airline, origin, dest. ❓ Update frequency? Real-time pull. ❓ Format? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML. ❓ Schedule? Yes. ❓ Rate-limited? Use tight bounds and reasonable intervals. ❓ Free tier? 10 flights preview. ❓ Schema stable? Core fields stable. ❓ TLS bypass? Yes via impit.
🔌 Integrate with any app
Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, REST/webhook.
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Disclaimer: This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with Flightradar24. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
