🛫 NOAA Aviation Weather METAR TAF Scraper

🚀 Export live airport weather in seconds. Pull current METAR observations and TAF terminal forecasts for any airport worldwide straight from the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, with 23 clean fields per record.

Track real flying weather the way pilots and dispatchers do. This Actor reads the official NOAA Aviation Weather Center (AWC) data service and returns decoded METAR surface observations or TAF terminal aerodrome forecasts for any list of airport ICAO codes you provide. No API key, no login, no scraping tricks. Just the same data feed that powers flight planning, normalized into tidy rows.

Coverage: Any airport that reports to the global METAR/TAF network is supported, from US fields like KJFK and KLAX to international ones like EGLL (London Heathrow). You pass ICAO identifiers, pick METAR or TAF, and get back temperature, wind, visibility, cloud layers, altimeter, flight category (VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR), the original raw report, and station coordinates.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pilots and flight instructors	Pre-flight weather briefings
Dispatchers and flight ops teams	Go / no-go decision support
Drone and UAV operators	Checking ceilings and visibility before launch
Aviation app and dashboard builders	Feeding live weather into a product
Data scientists and researchers	Building aviation weather datasets

📋 What the AviationWeather METAR TAF Scraper does

• Pulls current METAR observations for a list of airport ICAO codes (temperature, dewpoint, wind, gusts, visibility, altimeter, sea level pressure, cloud layers, flight category, raw report).
• Pulls TAF terminal forecasts with every forecast period decoded into a clean nested array (valid window, wind, visibility, cloud cover per period, plus the raw TAF text).
• Normalizes observation and forecast times from epoch to ISO timestamps.
• Summarizes cloud layers into a readable string like FEW900 SCT1800.
• Returns station name, latitude, longitude, and elevation for mapping.
• Lets you control how many hours back to search for METAR reports.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: cloudLayers, flightCategory, issuedAt, observedAt, rawForecast, rawObservation, results, scrapedAt, stationId, stationName, temperatureC, windSpeedKt. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up or log in to Apify using this link.
2. Open the AviationWeather METAR TAF Scraper.
3. Enter your airport ICAO codes in ids and choose METAR or TAF.
4. Optionally set hours for the METAR lookback and maxItems for the cap.
5. Run the Actor and download your results.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• NOAA Weather Scraper for general US forecasts and observations.
• Open-Meteo Weather Scraper for free global weather forecasts by coordinates.
• OurAirports Scraper for a global airport reference database.
• OpenSky Flights Scraper for live aircraft positions.
• Met.no Weather Forecast Scraper for European weather forecasts.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NOAA or the National Weather Service. Only publicly available data is collected.

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