OpenSky Live Flight & Aircraft Scraper
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OpenSky Live Flight & Aircraft Scraper
Pull live aircraft positions and historical flight tracks from OpenSky Network. 20k+ aircraft worldwide updated every 5-10 seconds. Filter by bounding box (geographic area), airport departures/arrivals, or aircraft ICAO24. Pull lat/lng, altitude, velocity, heading, call sign, and origin country.
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🚀 OpenSky Live Flight & Aircraft Scraper
🚀 Pull live aircraft positions and flight tracks from OpenSky Network - 20k+ planes worldwide updated seconds-real.
Pull live aircraft positions and historical flight tracks from OpenSky Network. 20k+ aircraft worldwide updated every 5-10 seconds. Filter by bounding box, airport departures/arrivals, or aircraft ICAO24.
Every run fetches live data from the source. You get a fresh snapshot per run, not a stale dump. The actor is designed for repeatable automation, scheduled pulls, and integration with downstream tools.
📋 What the OpenSky Live Flight & Aircraft Scraper does
- 🎯 Targeted filtering. Use the input schema to narrow results to what you need.
- 📦 Structured output. Clean, typed records with every field documented.
- 🔄 Live data. Every run fetches fresh data at runtime, no cached responses.
- 🔌 Easy integration. Consume via Apify API, webhooks, or direct dataset export.
- 📊 Scale on demand. Run once or run on a schedule, the same way.
💡 Why it matters: teams that rely on this source no longer need to babysit a custom crawler. Set up your filters once, get updated data on demand.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: arrivalAirportHorizDistance, baroAltitude, callsign, callsignAtArrival, callsignAtDeparture, category, departureAirportHorizDistance, estArrivalAirport, estDepartureAirport, firstSeen, geoAltitude, heading, icao24, lastContact, lastSeen, latitude, longitude, mode, onGround, originCountry, positionSource, scrapedAt, spi, squawk, timePosition, velocity, verticalRate. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: free users are limited to 10 items per run for preview purposes. Upgrade to Apify paid plans for higher limits.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Create a free account. Sign up at console.apify.com to get $5 in credits.
- 🔍 Open the actor. Paste your filters into the input schema in the Apify console.
- ▶️ Click Start. Wait a few seconds for the first records to land.
- 📤 Export the data. Download JSON/CSV or pipe to webhooks, Google Sheets, or Zapier.
- 🔄 Schedule it. Apify Schedules let you rerun on a cron cadence for free.
⏱️ Total time to first data: about 60 seconds.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor retrieves data from publicly available sources. You are responsible for complying with the source website's terms of service and applicable laws in your jurisdiction. ParseForge is not affiliated with the data source.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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