Google Flights Scraper — Flight Prices & Schedules

Google Flights scraper / flight prices API to extract airline offers from Google Flights: times, duration, stops and price for one-way or round-trip searches by city/airport. Carbon emissions are not exported.

Ideal for fare monitoring, travel price research, route comps, or a Google Flights API without building your own browser stack.

⚠️ For users — read before you run
Google Flights is aggressive on bots.
Keep Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy ON. Datacenter / no-proxy → often captcha or empty results.
You don’t install a proxy on your PC — leave the default proxyConfiguration.

Why this Actor: Origin→destination search · Round-trip support · Paste Flights URLs · Structured offer rows · Travel Store niche

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Table of contents

1. What this Actor does
2. What you get
3. Features
4. Input
5. Output example
6. Output fields
7. Quick start (API)
8. Use cases
9. Limitations
10. FAQ
11. Keywords

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What this Actor does

Step	Action
1	Open Google Flights (or your pasted search URL)
2	Fill origin, destination and dates (Playwright)
3	Parse visible flight offer cards
4	Return normalized price / schedule rows

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What you get

Schedule

• Airline name
• Departure / arrival times
• Duration and stops

Price & extras

• Price + currency when shown
• Emissions text when available
• Search URL used

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Features

Capability	Detail
Route search	City or IATA codes
Trip types	One-way or round-trip (returnDate)
URL paste	Full Google Flights links
Proxy-ready	RESIDENTIAL defaults documented
Caps	maxItems for cost control

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Input

Field	Required	Description
origin / destination / departureDate	Cond.	Route search
returnDate	No	Enables round-trip
searchUrls	Cond.	Overrides builders
adults / travelClass	No	Passengers / cabin
currency / language	No	EUR / en defaults
maxItems	No	Default 30
proxyConfiguration	Yes in practice	RESIDENTIAL

Example — MAD → BCN

{
  "origin": "MAD",
  "destination": "BCN",
  "departureDate": "2026-11-10",
  "maxItems": 20,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

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Output example

{
  "recordType": "flight_offer",
  "airline": "Iberia",
  "departureTime": "08:15",
  "arrivalTime": "09:30",
  "duration": "1 hr 15 min",
  "stops": "Nonstop",
  "price": 59.0,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "origin": "MAD",
  "destination": "BCN",
  "departureDate": "2026-11-10"
}

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Output fields

Field	Notes
airline, departureTime, arrivalTime	Carrier & schedule
duration, stops	As shown on card
price, priceText, currency	Parsed when possible
origin, destination, departureDate, returnDate	Query context
flightUrl, scrapedAt	Provenance

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Quick start (API)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("YOUR_USERNAME/google-flights-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "origin": "MAD",
        "destination": "LHR",
        "departureDate": "2026-12-01",
        "returnDate": "2026-12-08",
        "maxItems": 15,
        "proxyConfiguration": {
            "useApifyProxy": True,
            "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        },
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

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Use cases

• Airline / OTA fare monitoring
• Route price bands for travel agencies
• Competitor flight offer snapshots
• Flexible-date research pipelines (batch dates)

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Limitations

• RESIDENTIAL proxy strongly recommended.
• Google UI selectors change — cards may need maintenance.
• Captcha / consent walls can empty a run.
• Not a booking engine — prices are display offers.
• Respect Google Terms of Service.

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FAQ

Empty results?
Enable RESIDENTIAL, retry; try IATA codes (MAD) instead of long city names.

Round-trip?
Set returnDate.

Only a URL?
Paste into searchUrls and skip origin fields.

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Keywords

google flights scraper, google flights api, flight prices scraper, airfare scraper, flight schedule api, MAD BCN flights, travel fare monitoring