Google Flights Scraper

Get Google Flights offers for any route and date as one flat row per flight: price, airlines, flight numbers, stops, total duration, departure and arrival times and airports, layovers, CO2 estimate and whether Google lists it among the "Best" flights. One way or round trip, any cabin and number of adults. It doubles as a flight price tracker: monitor mode keeps the cheapest price of every route you save and alerts you only when it changes.

Try it: the prefilled example returns 20 rows in about 5 seconds and costs about $0.02. Results cost $1 per 1,000.

What you get

Real rows from the example dataset (the prefilled route JFK to LHR, one way, 30 days ahead: 2026-12-01):

airlines	flights	price	stops	minutes	departs	arrives	best	cheapest
British Airways	BA 178	$300	0	415	2026-12-01 08:05	2026-12-01 20:00	yes	no
JetBlue	B6 1107	$300	0	434	2026-12-01 09:26	2026-12-01 21:40	yes	no
Delta	DL 1	$300	0	425	2026-12-01 20:00	2026-12-02 08:05	yes	no
American	AA 104	$300	0	420	2026-12-01 21:15	2026-12-02 09:15	yes	no
Aer Lingus	EI 104, EI 152	$298	1	605	2026-12-01 17:00	2026-12-02 08:05	no	yes

Full row: id, url (the Google Flights search), route, from, to, departDate, returnDate, tripType, adults, cabin, price, currency, airlines, flightNumbers, stops, durationMinutes, departureAirport, departureTime, arrivalAirport, arrivalTime, layovers (airport, minutes), legs (flight number, airline, operator, airports, times, minutes, aircraft), isBest, isCheapest, co2Grams, co2TypicalGrams, co2DiffPercent, rank, routeKey, scrapedAt.

Times are local to each airport, as on the departure board. price is the total for all adults; on a round trip it is the round-trip total, as Google shows it.

Use cases

• Flight price tracker. The main use: save your routes and dates in monitor mode, schedule it daily, and get a webhook or Telegram message only when the cheapest fare for a route goes up or down.
• Fare research. Compare many routes or dates in one run and sort by price, stops or duration in a spreadsheet.
• Travel and deal sites. Feed a deals page with today's cheapest nonstop fares from a list of airports.
• Emissions reporting. Use co2Grams per offer to compare the footprint of options on the same route.

Try it in 10 seconds

One-off search. Press Start: the prefilled input searches JFK to London Heathrow one way, 30 days from today. Add departDate and returnDate to a route for your own trip.

Flight price tracker (monitor mode). Save a task with this input and put it on a schedule (Apify, Schedules, e.g. every morning):

{
  "mode": "monitor",
  "monitorStateId": "christmas-trip",
  "routes": [
    {"from": "JFK", "to": "LHR", "departDate": "2026-12-20", "returnDate": "2027-01-03"},
    {"from": "WAW", "to": "BCN", "departDate": "2026-12-20"}
  ],
  "adults": 2,
  "webhookUrl": "https://your-endpoint.example.com/hook"
}

Monitor mode needs a fixed departDate on every route (a run without one stops before any request, because a moving "30 days from today" date would never compare with the previous run). It returns one row per route, the cheapest offer, and only when its price differs from the previous run (or on the first run). Each monitor run charges one monitor-check event ($0.005) plus one change event ($0.001) per route whose cheapest price moved. A run with no price change charges only the check.

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• Google News Scraper: travel news about a destination or an airline, with alerts.

Input

Field	Meaning	Default
routes	List of {from, to, departDate, returnDate?} with IATA airport codes, dates up to 330 days ahead	[{"from": "JFK", "to": "LHR"}]
adults	Adult travellers, 1 to 9	1
cabin	economy, premium_economy, business, first	economy
currency	Price currency, ISO code	USD
language / country	Google language and market	en / US
maxStops	Keep offers with at most this many stops	all
cheapestOnly	One row per route, the cheapest offer	false
maxOffersPerRoute	Offers per route	100
maxItems	Rows per run in total	200 (prefilled 20)
mode, monitorStateId, webhookUrl, telegramBotToken, telegramChatId	Monitor mode and alerts	scrape

How it works

1. Each route is turned into the same encoded search link Google Flights builds when you search on the site (airports, dates, travellers, cabin, one way or round trip).
2. The results page is read from the data Google renders it from: the "Best" flights and the other departing flights, with prices in the currency you asked for.
3. Unknown airport codes make Google show its start page instead of results, and Google's own echo of the search then has no airports; such a route yields nothing and costs nothing. Any other page without offers is treated as a bot check.
4. If Google answers with a bot check, the request is retried on a stronger proxy tier. A run where every request was refused ends as blocked, never as an empty "no results".

Pricing

Event	Price
result	$0.001 per offer ($1 per 1,000)
monitor-check	$0.005 per monitor run
change	$0.001 per route whose cheapest price changed

Store discounts: SILVER plan -10%, GOLD and above -20% on every event.

You pay only for rows that are pushed. Platform usage is billed by Apify on top; runs need no proxy.

Limits

• A round-trip search lists the outbound flights with the round-trip total. Return-flight details are not included, because Google shows them only after an outbound flight is picked.
• Searches use airport codes (JFK, LHR). Metropolitan city codes such as NYC or LON are passed to Google as they are.
• Google shows about 20 to 40 offers per search; the actor returns that list and does not click "more flights".
• Prices are what Google shows for the market in country; airlines and booking sites may differ slightly.
• Children and infants cannot be added in this version.

FAQ

Does it need a Google account or an API key? No. Every request is made as a logged-out visitor.

How often should a price tracker run? Daily is usual. Fares change several times a day on busy routes, so twice a day catches more moves at twice the monitor-check cost.

Why did a run return nothing? The RUN_SUMMARY record in the run's key-value store has emptyReason. A bot check is reported as blocked, a route with no offers or unknown airports as no_matches.

Changelog

• 0.1: initial release. One way and round trip offers by route and date with airlines, flight numbers, stops, times, layovers and CO2; cheapest and Best flags; monitor mode as a flight price tracker.

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