# Google Flights Price & Schedule Scraper (`mellora/google-flights-price-scraper`) Actor

Extracts flight options, airlines, times, durations, stops and prices from public Google Flights search results for any route and date.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/mellora/google-flights-price-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [James Barnes](https://apify.com/mellora) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.10 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Flights Price & Schedule Scraper

Get the flight options for any route and date as structured data: airlines, departure and arrival times, duration, stops and price. Useful for fare tracking, price comparison, travel research and route analysis.

### Sample output

```json
{
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LAX",
  "departureDate": "2026-12-15",
  "departureTime": "08:00",
  "arrivalDate": "2026-12-15",
  "arrivalTime": "11:23",
  "airlines": ["Delta"],
  "flightNumbers": ["DL423"],
  "stops": 0,
  "durationMinutes": 383,
  "price": 189,
  "currency": "USD",
  "isTopFlight": true,
  "legs": [ { "departureAirport": "JFK", "arrivalAirport": "LAX", "airline": "Delta", "flightNumber": "DL423", "durationMinutes": 383 } ],
  "searchUrl": "https://www.google.com/travel/flights?q=...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-04T07:14:45+00:00"
}
```

(Illustrative values; real runs return live fares.)

### Input

- **origin / destination**: 3-letter IATA airport codes (required).
- **departureDate**: YYYY-MM-DD, or leave empty and set **daysFromNow**.
- **returnDate**: optional, for round trips.
- **currency**: e.g. USD, EUR.
- **maxStops**: optional filter.
- **maxResults**: default 50, max 200.

### Output fields

origin, destination, departureDate/Time, arrivalDate/Time, airlines, flightNumbers, stops, durationMinutes, price, currency, isTopFlight, per-leg details, searchUrl, scrapedAt.

### Pricing

$0.0001 per result (per dataset item). The platform charges automatically.

### Limits

- Reads only public, logged-out Google Flights pages; no login and no browser.
- One search (route + date) per run, with few requests.
- Google shows fares only up to roughly 330 days ahead.
- Google can change its page format or block requests; in that case the run fails with a clear message instead of returning empty data.
- Prices are those displayed at the time of the run and can change.

# Actor input Schema

## `origin` (type: `string`):

3-letter IATA code of the departure airport, e.g. JFK.

## `destination` (type: `string`):

3-letter IATA code of the arrival airport, e.g. LAX.

## `departureDate` (type: `string`):

Departure date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Must be within about 330 days. If empty, 'Days from now' is used.

## `daysFromNow` (type: `integer`):

Used only when no departure date is given: search this many days ahead.

## `returnDate` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for a one-way search. For round trips, the price shown is Google's price for the outbound option with the return.

## `currency` (type: `string`):

3-letter currency code for prices, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP.

## `maxStops` (type: `integer`):

Only return options with at most this many stops (0 = nonstop only). Leave empty for all.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of flight options to return, cheapest first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LAX",
  "departureDate": "",
  "daysFromNow": 30,
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "origin": "JFK",
    "destination": "LAX",
    "departureDate": "",
    "daysFromNow": 30,
    "currency": "USD",
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("mellora/google-flights-price-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "origin": "JFK",
    "destination": "LAX",
    "departureDate": "",
    "daysFromNow": 30,
    "currency": "USD",
    "maxResults": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("mellora/google-flights-price-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "origin": "JFK",
  "destination": "LAX",
  "departureDate": "",
  "daysFromNow": 30,
  "currency": "USD",
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call mellora/google-flights-price-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,mellora/google-flights-price-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/FFmjeScNytYRspAC1/builds/PZtoffHdOHJY54aKF/openapi.json