✈️ Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper

🚀 Export Flightradar24 live flight positions in seconds. Callsigns, airlines, aircraft types, altitudes, speeds, routes - all within your bounding box.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-29 · 📊 16 fields per flight · Global bounding box · Real-time positions · Airline, origin, destination filters

The Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper queries FR24's public feed endpoint for live aircraft positions within any bounding box. Filter by airline, origin, or destination and export every flight in seconds.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
✈️ Aviation enthusiasts	Track specific airlines or routes
📊 Logistics analysts	Build congestion dashboards
📰 Aviation journalists	Snapshot live air traffic
🤖 ML engineers	Train flight prediction models
👩‍💻 Developers	Mirror live traffic into your app

📋 What the Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper does

• Queries FR24 live feed for a bounding box.
• Returns every airborne and on-ground aircraft inside.
• Filters by airline, origin IATA, destination IATA.
• Uses impit for Chrome TLS fingerprint to bypass bot detection.
• Exports CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML.

💡 Why it matters: FR24's live feed is the gold standard for ADS-B aggregation. This actor turns it into a clean structured dataset, no contract required.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
bounds	string	No	north,south,west,east. Default continental US.
airline	string	No	ICAO substring filter (e.g. UAL).
originIata	string	No	Origin IATA filter.
destIata	string	No	Destination IATA filter.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.

Example 1 - all US flights:

{ "bounds": "50.0,24.0,-125.0,-65.0", "maxItems": 10 }

Example 2 - JFK departures:

{ "bounds": "42.0,40.0,-75.0,-72.0", "originIata": "JFK", "maxItems": 25 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Tighter bounds = faster and more relevant. Don't query the entire planet at once.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🆔 flightId	string	FR24 hex ID.
📡 callsign	string	Callsign.
✈️ airline	string	ICAO airline.
🛩️ aircraftType	string	Aircraft ICAO type.
🔖 registration	string	Tail number.
🛫 originIata	string	Origin IATA.
🛬 destIata	string	Destination IATA.
📈 altitude	number	Feet.
💨 speed	number	Knots.
🧭 heading	number	Degrees.
🌐 lat	number	Latitude.
🌐 lon	number	Longitude.
📡 status	string	airborne or on_ground.
🔗 url	string	FR24 detail URL.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetched at.
❌ error	string	Set on error.

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🌐 | Global bounding box. | | 🛡️ | Chrome TLS via impit - bypasses basic bot walls. | | 🎯 | Airline, origin, destination filters. | | 🧹 | Clean flat schema. | | 💾 | CSV / Excel / JSON / XML export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	TLS handling	Filters
Roll your own	2 hrs	manual	manual
FR24 paid API	$$	yes	yes
This Actor	5 sec	yes	yes

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set a bounding box (default = US).
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

✈️ Airline ops. Snapshot competitor flight density. 📊 Logistics. Airspace congestion analysis. 📰 Newsroom. Instant aviation incident maps. 🤖 Modelling. ADS-B training data.

🔌 Automating Flightradar24 Live Flights Scraper

• Make / Zapier: poll every 5 mins.
• Cron: hourly snapshots.
• Webhooks: instant push.
• BigQuery: native pipeline.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Aviation analytics teaching. 🧪 Personal. Track your incoming flight. 🤝 Non-profit. Noise-monitoring dashboards. 🧰 Tinkering. Discord plane-spotting bot.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT or Claude for ideas.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ API key? No. ❓ Global coverage? Yes, bounding box. ❓ Filters? Airline, origin, dest. ❓ Update frequency? Real-time pull. ❓ Format? CSV, Excel, JSON, JSONL, XML, RSS, HTML. ❓ Schedule? Yes. ❓ Rate-limited? Use tight bounds and reasonable intervals. ❓ Free tier? 10 flights preview. ❓ Schema stable? Core fields stable. ❓ TLS bypass? Yes via impit.

🔌 Integrate with any app

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

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