Google Flights Scraper & API: fares, schedules and a flight price tracker, no login

Get every flight Google Flights shows for any route and date, with the fare, airline, flight numbers, departure and arrival times, layovers, aircraft and CO₂ emissions. You also get Google's typical price range and a 60-day price history for the route. Search one-way or round trip, any cabin and any number of passengers. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel, call it as an API, or schedule it as a flight price tracker that tells you only when a fare changes.

No Google account, no API key, no cookies.

What can you do with this Google Flights scraper?

• ✈️ Find every flight on a route: all itineraries Google lists for the date, typically 20–60, with Google's "best" flights marked.
• 💰 Get exact fares for your trip: one-way or round trip, economy to first class, adults, children and infants, in any currency. Prices are totals for all passengers.
• 🔁 Build full round trips: outbound options plus the matching return flights with the round-trip total, ready to compare.
• 📉 Track flight prices automatically: schedule a daily run and receive only the flights whose fare went up or down, with the old fare, the new fare and the difference.
• 📊 See if a fare is a good deal: Google's typical price range for the route, a low / typical / high verdict, and the lowest fare per day for about the last 60 days.
• 🌱 Compare emissions: CO₂ per itinerary and how it compares with typical flights on the route.

Who uses it: travel startups and AI travel agents that need live fares, fare-alert and deal newsletters, corporate travel teams watching routes, and analysts studying airline pricing.

Why use this instead of the Google Flights website or the QPX API?

Google shut down its QPX Express flight API years ago, and there is no official Google Flights API. Copying fares by hand doesn't scale, and many scrapers drive a full browser, which is slow and breaks when Google changes the page.

This Actor reads the same data the Google Flights results page loads, with plain web requests:

• Fast: a route with 40+ flights in about 3 seconds; a round trip with return options in about 6 seconds.
• Reliable: in our tests every request succeeded, with no blocks or captchas. A self-test runs daily, so changes on Google's side are caught before they reach you.
• Accurate: the search is encoded exactly the way Google Flights encodes it, so passengers, cabin, stops and currency match what you see on google.com/travel/flights.
• Stable output: the same fields in every record, null when Google shows nothing. Fields are never renamed.

How to scrape Google Flights fares (3 steps)

1. Click Try for free and enter one or more routes as airport or city codes, such as JFK-LAX or NYC-LON.
2. Set the departure date, an optional return date or trip length, the passengers, cabin class and currency.
3. Click Start. Download the flights as Excel, CSV or JSON, or open the Flights and fares table.

Input examples

One-way, 30 days from today (the default):

{ "routes": ["JFK-LAX"], "departureDate": "30" }

Round trip London ↔ Lisbon for 2 adults, with return options for the 3 cheapest outbound flights, in euros:

{ "routes": ["LON-LIS"], "departureDate": "2026-12-05", "returnDate": "2026-12-09", "adults": 2, "currency": "EUR", "returnFlightsFor": 3 }

Business class, nonstop only, several routes:

{ "routes": ["JFK-LHR", "SFO-NRT", "LAX-SYD"], "departureDate": "45", "cabinClass": "business", "maxStops": "0" }

Daily fare alert (use with a schedule):

{ "routes": ["NYC-MIA"], "departureDate": "30", "tripLength": 4, "mode": "priceChanges", "monitorName": "miami-weekend" }

Dates take YYYY-MM-DD or a number of days from the day of the run (30). With a number, a daily schedule always checks the same distance ahead.

What data do you get? (output example)

A real record, London → Lisbon, round trip for 2 adults (shortened):

{
  "flightKey": "2026-11-13T12:50_FR1080",
  "direction": "outbound",
  "tripType": "round-trip",
  "route": "LON-LIS",
  "origin": "STN",
  "originName": "London Stansted Airport",
  "destination": "LIS",
  "destinationName": "Humberto Delgado Airport",
  "departure": "2026-11-13T12:50",
  "arrival": "2026-11-13T15:40",
  "durationMinutes": 170,
  "stops": 0,
  "layovers": [],
  "airlines": ["Ryanair"],
  "flightNumbers": ["FR1080"],
  "segments": [{ "flightNumber": "FR1080", "from": "STN", "to": "LIS", "departure": "2026-11-13T12:50", "arrival": "2026-11-13T15:40", "aircraft": "Boeing 737" }],
  "price": 207,
  "currency": "USD",
  "isBest": true,
  "cabinClass": "economy",
  "adults": 2,
  "co2Grams": 274000,
  "co2DifferencePercent": 5,
  "lowestPrice": 207,
  "typicalPriceLow": 115,
  "typicalPriceHigh": 280,
  "priceLevel": "typical",
  "googleFlightsUrl": "https://www.google.com/travel/flights/search?tfs=…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-04T23:14:26.954Z"
}

Field group	Fields
Fare	price (total for all passengers; round-trip total on round trips), currency, cabinClass, adults, children, infants
Schedule	departure, arrival (local airport time), durationMinutes, stops, layovers[] (airport, city, minutes)
Flights	airlines, flightNumbers, segments[] (flight number, airports, times, aircraft, legroom)
Round trips	direction (outbound / return), outboundFlightKey links each return option to its outbound
Price context	lowestPrice, typicalPriceLow, typicalPriceHigh, priceLevel (low / typical / high)
Emissions	co2Grams, co2TypicalGrams, co2DifferencePercent
Fare tracking	changeType, previousPrice, priceChange

The 60-day price history per route (lowest fare per day) is saved in the PRICE_INSIGHTS record of each run, and a SUMMARY record lists counts and anything that was skipped.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Flights?

You pay only per flight returned, with no monthly fee:

Plan	Price per 1,000 flights
Free	$3.00
Bronze	$2.70
Silver	$2.40
Gold and above	$2.10

Examples on the free plan: one route search (about 40 flights) costs about $0.12. A round trip with return options for the 3 cheapest outbound flights (about 70 flights) costs about $0.21. Apify's free $5 monthly credit covers about 1,650 flights.

In fare-tracking mode you pay only for flights whose fare changed; unchanged flights are free. You can cap any run with Max cost per run in the run options.

How to track flight prices automatically

1. Set Mode to Only fare changes, give the run a Monitor name, and use a relative departure date such as 30.
2. In Apify Console, click Schedule and choose daily or every few hours.
3. The first run gives you every flight as a starting point. After that, each run returns only flights whose fare changed, with previousPrice and priceChange. Send them to Slack, email or Google Sheets with Apify's integrations, n8n or Make.

Google Flights API: use it from your code, n8n, Make or AI agents

One API call that returns the flights:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/headply~google-flights-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"routes":["SFO-JFK"],"departureDate":"21","tripLength":5,"returnFlightsFor":2}'

Python:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("headply/google-flights-scraper").call(run_input={
    "routes": ["LHR-JFK"], "departureDate": "45", "cabinClass": "business", "currency": "GBP",
})
for f in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f["flightNumbers"], f["departure"], f["price"], f["priceLevel"])

n8n and Make: add the Apify node or module, choose Run an Actor and get dataset items, select headply/google-flights-scraper and paste the JSON input.

AI agents and MCP: input fields are described for tool use. Give airport codes, a date and passengers; read price, departure, flightNumbers and priceLevel. Searches finish in seconds.

FAQ

Is there an official Google Flights API? No. Google closed its QPX Express API, and Google Flights data is not available through any public Google API. This Actor is the practical Google Flights API: send a route and dates, get structured fares back.

Do I need a Google account or proxies? No. It reads public Google Flights pages without logging in, and Apify Proxy is included and set up for you.

Which market are the fares for? Google prices for the visitor's country. By default the Actor searches from the United States, so fares are US-market fares in the currency you choose. Change the proxy country to see fares as travellers elsewhere do.

Can I search by city instead of airport? Yes. City codes such as NYC, LON, PAR or TYO include all airports of that city.

How do round trips work? Google prices round trips as a pair. You get the outbound options with the round-trip total, and, for the cheapest outbound flights you choose with Return options for the N cheapest outbound flights, every matching return flight with its round-trip total.

Can I book through it? No. It collects fares; googleFlightsUrl opens the same search on Google Flights, where you can pick a booking site.

Limits

• Fares are what Google shows at the moment of the run; airlines change them often.
• Airport and city codes only (JFK, NYC); place names are not looked up.
• Up to 9 adults, 8 children and 4 infants, 1–330 days between departure and return.

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• Google Hotels Scraper & API: hotel prices for any city and dates, and every booking site's price (Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda…), with a hotel price tracker.

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