📡 FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper

🚀 Export FlightAware public flight tracker data in seconds. Scheduled times, actuals, aircraft, gate, status - one flight number at a time.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 14 fields per flight · Worldwide coverage · Scheduled and actual times · Gate and aircraft type

The FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper fetches public flight tracker pages from flightaware.com and parses scheduled/actual times, aircraft type, origin, destination, gate, and status for any flight number you supply.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
✈️ Aviation enthusiasts	Track specific flights
📊 Operations teams	Monitor your carrier's on-time perf
📰 Aviation journalists	Verify flight details
🤖 ML engineers	Build delay-prediction datasets
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror FA public tracker into your app

📋 What the FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper does

• Fetches the public tracker page for each flight number.
• Extracts the trackpollBootstrap JSON embedded in HTML.
• Returns scheduled and actual departure/arrival times, aircraft, origin/destination, status, gate.
• Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

💡 Why it matters: FlightAware's public pages have the cleanest single-flight view in aviation. This actor turns them into a structured feed without an enterprise contract.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
flightNumbers	array	No	List of flight numbers / callsigns.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1:

{ "flightNumbers": ["UAL100"], "maxItems": 1 }

Example 2 - multiple flights:

{ "flightNumbers": ["UAL100", "BAW178", "AAL1"], "maxItems": 10 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Use the full ICAO callsign (UAL100), not the IATA flight number (UA100), for best results.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 flightNumber	string	Flight callsign.
✈️ airline	string	Operating airline.
🛫 origin	string	Origin IATA/ICAO.
🛬 destination	string	Destination.
📅 scheduledDep	string	Scheduled departure.
⏰ actualDep	string	Actual departure.
📅 scheduledArr	string	Scheduled arrival.
⏰ actualArr	string	Actual arrival.
🛩️ aircraft	string	Aircraft type.
📡 status	string	Scheduled, en route, landed.
🚪 gate	string	Gate.
🔗 url	string	Tracker URL.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetched at.
❌ error	string	Set on error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 📡 | Real FlightAware data, single-flight precision. | | ⚡ | One HTTP roundtrip per flight. | | 🧹 | Parses embedded trackpollBootstrap JSON. | | 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Single-flight detail	Cost
FlightAware AeroAPI	hours + contract	yes	$$$
Roll your own	2 hrs	manual	free
This Actor	5 sec	yes	free tier

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Type a flight number.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

✈️ Crew ops. Track inbound aircraft. 📊 Performance monitoring. Audit on-time stats. 📰 Newsroom. Verify flight details on breaking stories. 🤖 Modelling. Delay prediction training.

🔌 Automating FlightAware Public Tracker Scraper

• Make / Zapier: poll inbound flights.
• Cron: hourly status pulls.
• Webhooks: instant push.
• BigQuery: native pipeline.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Aviation analytics teaching. 🧪 Personal. Track family flights. 🤝 Non-profit. Volunteer pilot dashboards. 🧰 Tinkering. Discord arrivals bot.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT or Claude for pipeline help.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ API key? No. ❓ Single flight or many? Pass an array. ❓ Live updates? Yes, page refreshes. ❓ Gate info? Yes when published. ❓ Format? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML. ❓ Schedule? Yes. ❓ Rate-limited? Be reasonable. ❓ Free tier? 10 flights preview. ❓ Schema stable? Core fields stable. ❓ ICAO or IATA? ICAO callsign recommended.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Drive, Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, REST/webhook.

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