Google Flights Scraper — fares, segments, price history

Google Flights results for any route and dates — price, airlines, times, duration, stops, every segment with flight number, aircraft and legroom, layovers, CO2 — plus Google's own lowest price and its ~60-day daily price history for each search. One plain HTTP request per search. No browser, no login, no API key. $0.20 per 1,000 itineraries.

Demo

Example: set routes: ["JFK-LAX","EWR-LHR","ORD-MIA"] and departureDates: ["+30","+45","+60"] to fare-grid three routes across three dates in one run — 9 searches, ~180 results, each with Google's own lowest-price insight so you know if a fare is actually low before you book.

Why it is cheap and fast

A Google Flights search page carries its results as structured JSON inside the page. This Actor builds the search URL directly (the tfs query parameter), fetches it once and reads that JSON — it does not launch a headless browser or click through the UI. A search takes about 2–3 seconds, and the Actor's compute cost is a fraction of a browser-based scraper's.

What you get

Field	Notes
price	Total for all passengers in your currency. For a round trip it is Google's round-trip total for that outbound option.
isBest, rank	Google's "Best" group and the row's position in its list.
airlines, departure, arrival, durationMinutes, stops	Local times, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM.
segments[]	Each leg: flightNumber (e.g. B61023), aircraft, legroom, from/to, times, minutes, co2Grams.
layovers[]	Airport, city, minutes on the ground.
co2Grams vs co2TypicalGrams	Google's emissions estimate for the itinerary and for a typical flight on the route.
insight row (type: "insight")	One per search: lowestPrice, cheapestListed, flightsListed, and priceHistory — ~60 daily {date, price} points. This is the input for a price-drop alert.

A real record

From a live run on 2026-10-04 (JFK → LAX, nonstop only):

{
  "type": "flight",
  "origin": "JFK", "destination": "LAX",
  "departureDate": "2026-11-03", "returnDate": null, "tripType": "one-way",
  "cabin": "economy", "adults": 1, "currency": "USD",
  "rank": 1, "price": 204, "isBest": true,
  "airlines": ["JetBlue"], "airlineCode": "B6",
  "departure": "2026-11-03T09:15", "arrival": "2026-11-03T12:36",
  "durationMinutes": 381, "stops": 0, "layovers": [],
  "segments": [{"from": "JFK", "to": "LAX", "departure": "2026-11-03T09:15", "arrival": "2026-11-03T12:36",
                "durationMinutes": 381, "airline": "JetBlue", "flightNumber": "B6223",
                "aircraft": "Airbus A320", "legroom": "32 in", "co2Grams": 411426}]
}

The same run's insight row: lowestPrice: 204, flightsListed: 29, and 62 daily price points starting at $174 two months earlier.

How to use it

• Price watch: routes: ["JFK-LAX"], departureDates: ["+30", "+45", "+60"], schedule it daily. +N means N days after the run date, so a schedule keeps looking the same distance ahead. Compare each insight row's lowestPrice with yesterday's.
• Fare grid: several routes × several dates in one run — every route is searched on every date (up to 200 searches a run).
• Round trips: tripLengthDays: 7 returns outbound options priced as a 7-day round trip.
• n8n / Make / Zapier: call the Actor's run-sync endpoint and read the dataset; filter type == "insight" for alerts, type == "flight" for the itineraries.

Inputs

Input	Default	Notes
routes	["JFK-LAX"]	Two IATA codes per line: EWR-LHR.
departureDates	+30	YYYY-MM-DD or +N days from today. Past dates are skipped.
tripLengthDays	0	0 = one-way; N = round trip returning N days later.
cabin	economy	economy · premium-economy · business · first
adults, children	1, 0
maxStops	any	any · 0 (nonstop) · 1 · 2
currency	USD	Any currency Google Flights supports.
maxResultsPerSearch	50	Caps rows and cost per route × date.
includePriceInsights	true	The insight row per search.
proxyConfiguration	off	Only if the log reports blocked.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
Flight itinerary	$0.0002 each — $0.20 per 1,000
Price insight	$0.0002 per successful search

No start fee. Searches that fail or are blocked are not charged. Example: 10 routes × 3 dates with 50 itineraries each = 1,500 rows + 30 insights = $0.31. The default input (one route, one date) costs about one cent.

Limits, stated plainly

• Google can change its page layout without notice. Every field is read defensively (a layout change yields null, not a crash), and the Actor is tested against a pinned fixture of the live response; if Google moves things, fields go null until it is updated.
• Searches are paced at ≥ 2 seconds apart and that is not configurable — it keeps runs from tripping Google's rate wall.
• Return-leg options for a round trip are a second, outbound-specific page on Google Flights; this Actor returns the outbound options with their round-trip price.
• Prices are what Google Flights displays for the given locale and currency at run time; book on the airline or agent site Google links to.

Use cases

Flight prices monitor — get current flight prices from Google Flights on any route without an API key; schedule daily runs and compare the lowestPrice insight field across days to spot when flight prices drop.

Cheap flights finder — build a fare grid: list 3–5 routes and 5–10 departure dates, run once, and get flight prices for every combination sorted by price in seconds. No login, no scraping UI.

Flight prices by cabin class — set cabin to economy, premium-economy or business and get flight prices for each class on the same route in a single run; useful for comparing upgrade cost at booking time.

Airfare tracker for travel blogs and price-alert tools — the insight row returns priceHistory (≈ 60 daily price points) alongside today's flight prices; pair it with a webhook to alert readers when airfare on a route drops below a threshold.

Google Flights API alternative — get structured flight prices without signing up for the Google Flights Data API. Output is JSON/CSV; same fields, $0.0002 per itinerary ($0.20 per 1,000).

Travel automation (n8n / Make / Zapier) — call the run-sync endpoint, filter type == "insight" for the lowest flight prices and type == "flight" for full itineraries; wire results into a Slack alert, spreadsheet or booking dashboard.

Frequently asked questions

How do I get current flight prices from Google Flights without an API key? Run this Actor with the route and date — it fetches flight prices from Google Flights directly; no key, no login, no browser needed.

Can I track flight prices over time? Yes. Each run returns an insight row with lowestPrice (today) and priceHistory (~60 daily prices). Schedule daily runs to watch how flight prices move on a route.

Does it return cheap flights or just the full list? Both. The insight row marks the lowestPrice in the result set. The isBest flag follows Google's own "Best" label. Filter by price ascending to find the cheapest flight in any run.

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