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🚀 SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper

🚀 Pull every SpaceX launch with rocket, payloads, success flag, launch site, mission patch, webcast URL, and full mission details.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-07 · 📊 35 fields per record · 500+ launches · 200+ payloads · 100+ launchpads, capsules, cores, ships · launches, rockets, capsules, cores, launchpads, payloads

The SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper pulls every SpaceX launch from the public SpaceX-API. Output includes flight number, launch name, date (UTC + local), success flag, mission patch image, webcast URL, rocket details, launchpad info with geo coordinates, payload IDs, crew/ship/capsule/core IDs, articles, Wikipedia link, Reddit campaigns, and YouTube ID.

The dataset covers 500+ launches since the company's 2006 first launch through current operations, plus 200+ payloads, every active and retired rocket, every Dragon capsule and Falcon core, every launchpad and landpad, and the recovery fleet. Eight endpoints in one Actor: launches, rockets, capsules, cores, launchpads, landpads, payloads, ships.

📋 What the SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🚀 Full launch history. Every SpaceX launch with rich metadata.
• 🪧 Mission patches. High-res patch image URL per launch.
• 🎬 Webcast + Reddit + Wikipedia. Direct links to live coverage and discussion.
• 🏷️ 8 endpoints. Launches, rockets, capsules, cores, launchpads, landpads, payloads, ships.
• 🔍 Filters. Year, success-only, upcoming-only, rocket-name.

💡 Why it matters: clean, server-side filtering and fresh data on every run.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

⚙️ Input

Example: every successful 2024 launch.

{
"maxItems":100,
"endpoint":"launches",
"successOnly":true,
"yearFilter":"2024"
}

Example: all upcoming launches + Falcon Heavy.

{
"maxItems":50,
"endpoint":"launches",
"upcomingOnly":true
}

📊 Output

Each record contains 35 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Find the SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick filters and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🔌 Automating SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick an endpoint (launches, rockets, capsules, cores, launchpads, landpads, payloads, or ships) and optional filters. The Actor calls the SpaceX-API and emits records.

📊 How many fields per record?

Up to 35 for launches. Other endpoints return correspondingly different schemas.

🪧 Are mission patches high-res?

Yes. The Actor returns the largest patch image URL when available, falling back to small.

🎬 Does it include webcast video?

Yes. webcastUrl returns the YouTube live-stream link when one is published.

✅ How is success determined?

Pass-through from SpaceX-API. The success field is true for primary mission objectives met.

🔁 Can I schedule runs?

Yes. Schedule weekly to keep an external launch tracker fresh, or daily during launch-heavy periods.

⚖️ Is this data free?

Yes. SpaceX-API is community-maintained under MIT license. Only public mission metadata is collected.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan?

No. The free plan covers preview runs.

🆘 What if a run fails?

Apify retries transient errors. Partial datasets are preserved.

🚀 Does it include Starship?

Yes. Starship-related launches and the Starship vehicle appear in launches and rockets endpoints.

🔌 Integrate with any app

SpaceX Launches and Rockets Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets to Sheets

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), the SpaceX-API project, or any subsidiary. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.