Google Flights Prices Scraper

Flight prices, airlines, flight numbers, departure and arrival times, duration, stops and layovers from Google Flights for any route, date and cabin. One way or round trip, in the currency you choose. Pay only for flights delivered. No login, no browser, no API key.

Tired of flight scrapers that time out or come back empty? This one reads Google's own results data over a plain connection in about a second a route, retries the page when Google sends it without results, and ends every run with a status line that says exactly what came back and why.

What you get

One row per itinerary:

Field	Example
route, origin, destination	LHR-JFK, LHR, JFK
depart_date, return_date, trip_type	2026-11-10, null, one way (the dates Google priced; what you asked for is in requested_depart_date and requested_return_date)
origin_airport, destination_airport	the airport Google attached to a city name (Berlin gives BER)
airline, airlines, flight_numbers	JetBlue, ["JetBlue"], ["B62220"]
depart_airport, arrive_airport	LHR, JFK
depart_at, arrive_at	2026-11-10T07:25, 2026-11-10T10:32 (local times)
duration_min, stops	487, 0
layovers	[{"airport": "BCN", "name": ..., "city": "Barcelona", "minutes": 335}]
legs	one entry per flight: number, airline, airports, times, duration, aircraft, legroom, emissions
price, price_text, currency, price_for	409, "GBP 409", GBP, one way
cabin, passengers	economy, 1
aircraft, legroom, emissions_kg	Airbus A321neo, 32 in, 549
rank	best or other (Google's own grouping)
search_url, scraped_at	the Google Flights search and the run time

Plus one free SUMMARY row per route (flights delivered, requested, available, currency, and a reason when nothing came back).

Use cases

• Fare monitoring: schedule a daily run for your routes and chart the cheapest fare.
• Price comparison content: "cheapest flights London to New York in November" tables with live prices.
• Travel agencies and corporate travel: price a batch of trips for several dates and cabins in one run.
• Market research: which airlines fly a route, how often, with how many stops, at what price.
• Alerts: run it with your own threshold logic and message yourself when a fare drops.

How to use it

1. Type your routes, one per line: airport codes (LHR-JFK), city names (London to New York, Winston-Salem to Boston) or a pasted Google Flights search link. The same search typed twice runs once.
2. Pick a departure date (empty means four weeks ahead). Add a return date for round-trip totals, or leave it empty for one-way prices.
3. Choose cabin (economy, business or first; Google's search does not read premium economy), number of adults and a currency if you want one.
4. Start the run. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read it through the API.

Prices: what they mean

• With no return date the price is a one-way fare. With a return date it is the round-trip total for the outbound flight shown, as Google displays it. The price_for field says which.
• Prices are totals for the number of adults you set.
• Currency follows your Currency field, or the country's currency when it is empty (United Kingdom gives GBP). The code is always in currency.
• A few flights carry no fare on Google ("Price unavailable"). They are delivered with price null and are free.
• Dates can be up to 330 days ahead. The rows carry the dates Google priced, and the SUMMARY row says so if they differ from the request.
• Google groups results into "best" and "other" flights; both are delivered, in Google's order, with the group in rank.

How many flights and what it costs

Google lists 10 to 60 itineraries per route and date. Each route is one search.

Flights delivered	Cost
100	about $1.00
1,000	about $10

Price: a small fee per run plus a fee per flight delivered with a fare. Flights without a fare and routes that return nothing are free.

Tips for bigger runs

• Run many routes in one go: they are fetched in parallel.
• To price several dates for the same route, add the route once per run and schedule runs per date, or pass each date as its own run through the API.
• For a daily fare series, schedule the actor with fixed dates so runs compare like with like.

Scheduling and API

Schedule it in the Apify console (Schedules > Create) or call it:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/oski~google-flights-prices-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"routes": ["LHR-JFK", "LHR-LAX"], "departDate": "2026-11-10", "returnDate": "2026-11-17", "currency": "GBP"}'

If something looks wrong

Status line says	What it means	What to do
Input problem: Add at least one route	The routes field was empty	Add a route like LHR-JFK
Input problem: "X" is not a route	A line had only one place	Type two places, origin and destination
Input problem: Return date must be on or after the departure date	Dates were reversed	Swap them
Google did not understand the route	Google could not read the places as typed	Check the spelling or use airport codes such as LHR-JFK
Google listed no flights for it on that date	Google has no itineraries for that pair and date	Check the airport codes or try another date
Google sent the page without its results three times	Google served a results-less page on every try	Run again later; it is a transient Google behaviour
Google showed a consent page or a captcha	Google asked for consent or refused the exit IP	Run again; if it repeats, choose the RESIDENTIAL proxy group
Fewer flights than listed	The route had more flights than your maximum	Raise "Flights per route"
Input problem: ... is a link but not a Google Flights search link	A hotel, explore or other site's link was pasted	Paste a google.com/travel/flights link or type the route
Input problem: ... is more than 330 days ahead	The search names month and day only	Pick a date within 330 days
Stopped early because the run reached its maximum cost	Your per-run cost cap was hit; unstarted routes have a SUMMARY row saying so	Raise the cap under Run options
I wanted one-way prices but got round trip	A return date was set	Clear the return date

Sibling actors

• Google Hotels Prices Scraper: hotel names, nightly prices, ratings and amenities for any destination and dates.