Flightradar24 Live Flight Tracker

Scrape live aircraft positions, altitudes, speeds, callsigns, registrations, and origin/destination from the Flightradar24 public feed within a user-defined geographic bounding box. Useful for aviation analytics, ETA tracking, and operations dashboards.

Quick start

Run with the default input — no configuration needed for the first try:

{
    "northLat": "37.5",
    "southLat": "37.0",
    "westLong": "-122.5",
    "eastLong": "-122.0",
    "maxItems": 10
}

Or trigger via the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/<USERNAME>~flightradar24-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
northLat	string	37.5	Top of bounding box (degrees).
southLat	string	37.0	Bottom of bounding box (degrees).
westLong	string	-122.5	Left of bounding box (degrees, negative for western hemisphere).
eastLong	string	-122.0	Right of bounding box (degrees).
maxItems	integer	10	Cap on aircraft returned.

Output fields

Each dataset record contains at least these fields:

Field	Type	Description
registration	text	Reg
callsign	text	Callsign
altitude	number	Alt (ft)
speed	number	Speed (kts)
heading	number	Heading
origin	text	From
destination	text	To

Plus a scrapedAt timestamp and any source-specific extra fields visible in the All fields view of the Apify console.

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• Actor start — $0.0500 per event. Charged when the actor starts
• Flight record — $0.0050 per event. Charged per aircraft scraped

How it works

This Actor calls the source's public web/API and parses the response. Results stream to the dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, or RSS via the Apify Console or API.

Use cases

• Bulk research and lead generation
• Feeding data warehouses, BI tools, or LLM/RAG pipelines
• Scheduled monitoring of changes over time
• Combining with other Apify Actors via Make, Zapier, n8n, or native Apify integrations

Compliance

Use this Actor only for purposes that comply with the source site's terms of service and applicable law. Respect rate limits. The author is not affiliated with the source.

Support

Questions, bugs, or feature requests — message the author via the Apify Console.