🚌 FlixBus Route and Price Scraper

🚀 Find every FlixBus connection between any two cities in Europe or North America. Get departure times, durations, prices, seat availability, and transfer details in one structured export.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Travel aggregators, price trackers, and logistics teams need live bus route data. This tool searches FlixBus connections between any two cities on a given date and returns every available trip with full timing, pricing, and availability details.

The FlixBus Scraper delivers departure and arrival timestamps, trip duration, direct vs. transfer information, total fare in your chosen currency, seat availability, and per-leg breakdowns. Supports 10 currencies and group bookings for up to 9 passengers.

Target Audience	Travel aggregators, price tracking services, travel agencies, corporate travel managers, trip planning apps, market researchers
Primary Use Cases	Route comparison, fare tracking, price monitoring, travel app data feeds, multi-modal journey planning, market analysis

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📋 What Does It Do

• Searches every FlixBus connection between two cities on a given date
• Returns departure and arrival timestamps with trip duration in hours and minutes
• Shows prices in any of 10 supported currencies (EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, SEK, DKK, NOK, PLN, CZK, HUF)
• Includes seat availability and seats-left-at-current-price indicators
• Identifies direct vs. transfer trips with per-leg timing
• Supports group bookings for 1 to 9 adult passengers

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🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 trips. Paid users: up to 1,000,000	10
From City	string	Departure city name (e.g., Berlin)	Berlin
To City	string	Destination city name (e.g., Munich)	Munich
Departure Date	string	Travel date in YYYY-MM-DD format (defaults to 7 days from today)	-
Adults	integer	Number of adult passengers, 1 to 9	1
Currency	string	Price currency code (EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, SEK, DKK, NOK, PLN, CZK, HUF)	EUR

Example 1:

{
    "fromCity": "Berlin",
    "toCity": "Munich",
    "departureDate": "2026-05-15",
    "adults": 2,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example 2:

{
    "fromCity": "Paris",
    "toCity": "Amsterdam",
    "adults": 1,
    "currency": "USD",
    "maxItems": 20
}

⚠️ FlixBus uses dynamic pricing. Fares can change between runs based on demand, time of day, and remaining seat inventory at each price tier.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema: fromCity, toCity, departureTime, arrivalTime, durationHours, durationMinutes, transferType, numLegs, priceTotal, currency, seatsAvailable, seatsLeftAtPrice, status, legs, scrapedAt

📦 Sample 1:

{
    "fromCity": "Berlin, DE",
    "toCity": "Munich, DE",
    "departureTime": "2026-05-15T08:00:00+02:00",
    "arrivalTime": "2026-05-15T14:30:00+02:00",
    "durationHours": 6,
    "durationMinutes": 30,
    "transferType": "direct",
    "numLegs": 1,
    "priceTotal": 29.99,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "seatsAvailable": 45,
    "seatsLeftAtPrice": 3,
    "status": "available",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 2:

{
    "fromCity": "Berlin, DE",
    "toCity": "Munich, DE",
    "departureTime": "2026-05-15T12:00:00+02:00",
    "arrivalTime": "2026-05-15T20:15:00+02:00",
    "durationHours": 8,
    "durationMinutes": 15,
    "transferType": "1 transfer",
    "numLegs": 2,
    "priceTotal": 19.99,
    "currency": "EUR",
    "seatsAvailable": 30,
    "seatsLeftAtPrice": 5,
    "status": "available",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 3:

{
    "fromCity": "Paris, FR",
    "toCity": "Amsterdam, NL",
    "departureTime": "2026-05-15T07:30:00+02:00",
    "arrivalTime": "2026-05-15T14:45:00+02:00",
    "durationHours": 7,
    "durationMinutes": 15,
    "transferType": "direct",
    "numLegs": 1,
    "priceTotal": 34.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "seatsAvailable": 22,
    "seatsLeftAtPrice": 2,
    "status": "available",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose This Tool?

Feature	Details
Live trip data	Every available connection between two cities on a given date
10 currency options	EUR, USD, GBP, CHF, SEK, DKK, NOK, PLN, CZK, and HUF
Seat availability	Free seats and seats-left-at-current-price for demand tracking
Transfer breakdown	Direct vs. transfer trips with per-leg timing details
Group bookings	Price quotes for 1 to 9 adult passengers
Fast collection	Results in seconds from live FlixBus data
Scheduled monitoring	Track price changes daily on your most important routes

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📈 How It Compares

Capability	This Tool	Other Solutions
Bulk extraction	Up to 1,000,000 trips per run	One search at a time
Multi-currency	10 currencies built-in	Site default currency only
Per-leg breakdown	Structured timing data per leg	Scattered on page
Seat availability	Free seats and seats-at-price included	On page only
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Not supported
Price monitoring	Daily scheduled runs	Manual repeated searches

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "FlixBus Route and Price Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

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💼 Business Use Cases

Audience	How They Use It
Travel Aggregators	Add bus options to your flight and train comparison platform with structured route and pricing data
Price Trackers	Build historical price series for popular routes to identify trends and alert users to deals
Corporate Travel Teams	Monitor cheaper bus alternatives on common business routes and compare total travel costs
Trip Planning Apps	Feed bus schedules into multi-modal journey planners with accurate timing and pricing data

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to FlixBus or Flix SE. It collects only publicly available route and fare data.