NOAA Space Weather Scraper — Solar Flares, Alerts & Kp Index

Extract live space weather data from the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) — the official US government source for solar storm forecasting. Geomagnetic storms disrupt satellites, GPS accuracy, HF radio, airline polar routes, and power grids; SWPC's feeds are the canonical early-warning signal, and this Actor turns six of them into clean structured datasets.

Available data products

Product	What you get
Alerts, Watches & Warnings	Official SWPC alert messages (geomagnetic storms, radio blackouts, radiation storms) with alert codes and full text
GOES X-ray Solar Flares (7 days)	Every solar flare detected by GOES satellites — begin/max/end times and flare class (B/C/M/X)
Solar Flare / Proton Probabilities	Daily forecast probabilities of C/M/X-class flares and proton events, 1–3 days out
Planetary Kp Index	Geomagnetic activity index at 3-hour cadence — the storm-severity number (Kp ≥ 5 = storm)
Active Solar Regions	Sunspot regions on the visible disk with magnetic classifications and flare history
Observatory Sunspot Reports	Raw sunspot observations from contributing observatories

Every record is tagged with a product field so multi-product runs stay easy to split downstream.

How to scrape NOAA space weather data

1. Select one or more Data Products (default: Alerts)
2. Set Max Results Per Product
3. Click Start — runs in seconds, no browser

Input example

{
    "products": ["alerts", "xray_flares_7day", "kp_index"],
    "maxResultsPerProduct": 500
}

Output example

{
    "product": "xray_flares_7day",
    "time_tag": "2026-06-04T15:53:00Z",
    "begin_time": "2026-06-04T15:53:00Z",
    "begin_class": "C1.1",
    "max_time": "2026-06-04T15:58:00Z",
    "max_class": "C1.6",
    "satellite": 18
}

Who uses this data?

• Satellite operators scheduling maneuvers and safing around storms
• Energy utilities monitoring geomagnetically induced current risk on transmission grids
• Aviation dispatchers planning polar routes and HF communication windows
• Precision agriculture / surveying firms anticipating GPS degradation
• Researchers and hobbyist astronomers tracking the solar cycle and aurora chances

Pricing

Pay-per-result. Typical runs return a few hundred to a few thousand records for fractions of a cent in compute — these are lightweight JSON feeds, no browser required.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? SWPC updates these feeds continuously — alerts within minutes of issuance, Kp every 3 hours, flares in near real time.

Can I schedule it? Yes — run it on an Apify schedule (e.g. hourly) and pipe new records to Slack, email, or a webhook via integrations.

Legal disclaimer

This Actor extracts publicly available US government data published by NOAA SWPC. You are responsible for ensuring your use of the data complies with applicable laws.