✈️ AirLive Aviation News Scraper

Turn AirLive's aviation news feed into rows you can filter, search and archive. Every article comes back with its headline, link, publication date, author, category tags, the excerpt and the full article HTML. No API key, no registration, no login.

AirLive publishes aviation incidents, diversions, military flights and airline news at airlive.net, and pushes them out over an RSS feed. RSS is fine for reading and useless for analysis: you cannot filter it by keyword, you cannot keep a history, and you cannot join it to anything else. This Actor reads the feed and writes each article into a dataset you can open in a spreadsheet, query, or append to day after day.

Who uses it	What they use the feed for
🛩 Buyers of aviation businesses	Watching incident and operator news around an MRO shop, FBO or charter operator under diligence
🏦 Aviation lenders and insurers	Keeping a dated record of incidents involving an aircraft type, registration or carrier
📊 Analysts covering airlines	Building a searchable archive instead of scrolling a feed reader
📰 Newsrooms and monitoring teams	Catching aviation stories by keyword on a schedule, with the source link attached

📋 What it does

💡 Why it matters: an aviation asset is priced on its safety and operating record. The news around a registration, a route or an operator is public, and this is the cheapest way to keep it in a file rather than in a browser tab.

• 📰 Reads the AirLive RSS feed and returns one row per article, newest first.
• 🔎 Filters by keyword. Set query and only articles whose title contains that substring are kept.
• 🔗 Points at any feed. feedUrl defaults to AirLive's main feed and accepts a category feed instead.
• 🏷 Keeps the category tags, which on AirLive carry the flight number, airline code, airport and aircraft registration, for example AA1779, MIA, N737US.
• 📄 Returns both the excerpt and the full article body, as HTML, so nothing is lost on the way out.
• 💾 Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, from the run page or the API.

📊 Output

Every article is one flat row, with the same nine fields on every run.

Field	Type	Description
📰 title	string	Article headline as published
🔗 link	string	Permanent URL of the article on airlive.net
📅 pubDate	string	Publication date in RFC 822 form, for example Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:40:38 +0000
✍️ author	string	Byline as the feed gives it
🏷 categories	array	Tag list. On AirLive this mixes topics with flight numbers, airline codes, airports and aircraft registrations
📝 summary	string	The feed excerpt, as HTML
📄 content	string	The full article body, as HTML, including embedded figures and video blocks
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection
⚠️ error	string	null on a normal row

Example rows

summary and content hold raw HTML. Both are cut short in the two rows below so they stay readable; a real row carries the complete markup.

{
  "title": "Declassified footage shows rescue of Air Force officer who ejected 5 miles from his pilot 50 hours earlier over Iran",
  "link": "https://airlive.net/military/2026/09/14/declassified-footage-shows-rescue-of-air-force-officer-who-ejected-5-miles-from-his-pilot-50-hours-earlier-over-iran/",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:40:38 +0000",
  "author": "Seb Mil",
  "categories": [
    "Middle East",
    "Military"
  ],
  "summary": "<p>WASHINGTON ... Newly declassified military footage released by the Department of Defense reveals the dramatic 50-hour rescue operation of a U.S. Air Force weapons systems officer ...</p>",
  "content": "<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WASHINGTON</strong> ... The officer, identified by his call sign <strong>&#8220;Dude 44 Bravo&#8221;</strong>, was serving as the backseat weapons systems officer aboard an F-15E Strike Eagle ...</p>",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T15:11:19.453Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "title": "Pilots of AA1779 reported a passenger in seat 9D undressed herself and acted indecently in view of nearby PAX",
  "link": "https://airlive.net/incident/2026/09/12/pilots-of-aa1779-reported-a-passenger-in-seat-9d-undressed-herself-and-acted-indecently-in-view-of-nearby-pax/",
  "pubDate": "Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:33:13 +0000",
  "author": "AIRLIVE contibutors",
  "categories": [
    "Exclusive",
    "Incident",
    "USA",
    "AA",
    "AA1779",
    "MIA",
    "N737US"
  ],
  "summary": "<p>Law enforcement officers met an American Airlines flight upon its arrival at Miami International Airport late Friday night following reports of indecent behavior by a female passenger in mid-air ...</p>",
  "content": "<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MIAMI</strong> ... American Airlines Flight <a href=\"https://www.airnavradar.com/data/flights/AA1779/2878115288\">AA1779</a>, operated by an Airbus A319 (registration N737US), departed Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) at 8:45 p.m. EDT ...</p>",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T15:11:19.453Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
The whole article, not the teaser	Most feed readers stop at the excerpt. content carries the full body HTML.
Tags that are actually identifiers	AirLive tags carry flight numbers, airport codes and tail numbers, so a dataset can be filtered on them.
Keyword filtering at the source	Set query and the run returns only matching headlines.
The same nine fields every run	Append a month of daily runs into one dataset without cleaning columns.
You pay per article	No subscription. A run that matches nothing costs nothing.

🚀 How to use it

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts start with $5 of credit.
2. Open the Actor and select Try for free.
3. Leave feedUrl on the AirLive default, or paste a category feed.
4. Set maxItems, and add a query if you only want headlines containing a word.
5. Select Start, then export from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

A first run:

{
  "feedUrl": "https://www.airlive.net/feed/",
  "maxItems": 10
}

Only articles whose headline mentions a carrier:

{
  "feedUrl": "https://www.airlive.net/feed/",
  "query": "American Airlines",
  "maxItems": 100
}

⚙️ Input

Field	Required	Description
maxItems	No	Maximum articles to collect in a run. Defaults to 10
feedUrl	No	RSS feed URL to read. Defaults to https://www.airlive.net/feed/
query	No	Title substring filter. Leave empty to keep every article

💰 Pricing

Pay per result. No subscription, and no Apify platform usage on top.

Apify plan	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Per article	$0.0085	$0.00817	$0.00783	$0.0075	$0.0075	$0.0075

Articles collected	Cost on the Free plan
100	$0.85
1,000	$8.50
10,000	$85.00

Free plan runs return up to 10 rows as a preview. Any paid Apify plan lifts that to 1,000,000 per run.

🔌 Integrate with any app

The dataset is available through the Apify API as soon as the run finishes. Use run-sync-get-dataset-items for a one-shot call, webhooks to trigger what happens next, or the Make, Zapier, Airbyte and LangChain integrations listed on the Actor page.

🤖 Use with an AI agent

Give an agent live access to the feed over the Model Context Protocol:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=acquistion-automation/airlive-aviation-news-rss-scraper"

Then ask it in plain language for the latest aviation incidents and have it read the results back.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Why did I get zero rows? Either the feed URL did not return valid RSS, or the query filter matched no headline. query matches a plain substring of the title, so a typo or a stray space returns nothing. Run once without query to confirm the feed works.

How far back does the feed go? As far as the publisher's RSS feed does, which is usually the most recent articles only. To build a history, run the Actor on a schedule and append to the same dataset.

Can I point it at a different site? Yes. feedUrl takes any RSS feed. Field names stay the same, though categories, author and content depend on what that publisher puts in its feed.

Why is content full of HTML tags? It is the article body exactly as the feed publishes it, including figures and embedded video. Nothing is stripped, so you can decide what to keep.

Do I need a proxy? No. Requests and retries are handled inside the Actor and included in the price.

What can I export? CSV, Excel, JSON and XML from the run page, or JSON straight from the API.

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🆘 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor with your run ID, the input you used, and what you expected to get back.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by AirLive or any publisher. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using that data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable law.