🚢 Finland Digitraffic Marine AIS Scraper

🚀 Track live Baltic Sea shipping in seconds. One run returns thousands of live vessel positions straight from Fintraffic's official open marine data feed.

Fintraffic Digitraffic publishes the real Automatic Identification System (AIS) signal that ships broadcast across the Baltic. This Actor reads that open feed and turns each vessel into one clean, flat record: where it is, how fast it is going, which way it is pointing, and (optionally) its name, ship type, and stated destination.

The live locations endpoint typically reports well over 18,000 vessels at any moment, so even a small run gives you a rich snapshot of Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Bothnia, and open Baltic traffic. Vessel identity fields are joined on demand from the Digitraffic vessels metadata endpoint, keyed by MMSI.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Maritime analysts and logistics teams	Tracking vessel movements and port approaches
Researchers and data scientists	Studying traffic density and shipping patterns
Insurance and risk teams	Monitoring fleets and flagged vessels
Hobbyists and ship spotters	Watching named vessels move in near real time

📋 What the Finland Digitraffic Marine AIS Scraper does

• Reads the live AIS locations GeoJSON feed from Fintraffic Digitraffic.
• Flattens every vessel feature into MMSI, latitude, longitude, speed, course, heading, navigational status, and rate of turn.
• Optionally joins vessel name, ship type, destination, call sign, and IMO number from the metadata endpoint.
• Filters results by a list of MMSI numbers or by a latitude / longitude bounding box.
• Decodes raw AIS codes into readable labels (navigational status and ship type category).

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: courseDegrees, destination, headingDegrees, latitude, longitude, mmsi, name, navigationalStatus, results, scrapedAt, shipType, speedKnots. 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 for a free Apify account using our referral link.
2. Open the Finland Digitraffic Marine AIS Scraper.
3. Set maxItems, and optionally add an MMSI list or a bounding box.
4. Click Start and watch live vessel records fill the dataset.
5. Connect the dataset to your dashboard, notebook, or downstream app.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Fintraffic or Digitraffic. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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