✈️ OurAirports Global Airport Database Scraper

🚀 Export the global airport dataset in seconds. Filter 85,000+ airports, heliports, and airfields by country, type, bounding box, or scheduled service. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-16 · 📊 20 fields per record · ✈️ 85,000+ airports · 🌍 247 countries · 🛬 7 airport types

The OurAirports Scraper exports the community-maintained global aviation catalog and returns 20 fields per record, including ICAO, IATA, GPS, and local codes, geographic coordinates, elevation, and commercial service status. The underlying dataset is one of the most widely cited open aviation references and has been maintained by a global network of pilots, data providers, and aviation professionals since 2007.

The catalog covers every continent, 247 ISO country codes, and seven airport classifications, from major international hubs down to rural private airfields. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. All filters run on the server, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Travel-tech teams, GIS engineers, aviation analysts, data scientists, logistics & routing companies, journalists, OSM contributors	IATA/ICAO autocomplete, route planning, bounding-box feeds, code lookups, map layer enrichment, aviation research

---

📋 What the OurAirports Scraper does

Five filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🌍 Worldwide export. Every airport, heliport, and airfield on the planet.
• 🏳️ Country filter. Restrict to one ISO code like US, GB, JP, DE, or BR, across 247 countries.
• 🛬 Type filter. Large, medium, or small airports, heliports, seaplane bases, balloonports, or closed fields.
• 📐 Bounding-box filter. Scope to a custom lat/lon region that can cross borders.
• 🛫 Scheduled-service filter. Airports with active scheduled passenger flights only.

Each record includes codes (ICAO, IATA, GPS, local), geography (lat, lon, elevation, continent, region, municipality), classification, and reference links such as the official home page, Wikipedia, and community keywords.

💡 Why it matters: accurate airport reference data powers flight booking, drone mapping, and logistics routing. Building your own pipeline means writing parsers, handling coordinate edge cases, and refreshing by hand. This Actor skips all of that and keeps your dataset fresh on every run.

---

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

---

⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
country	string	"US"	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2. Empty string = worldwide.
type	string	""	One of 7 airport types. Empty = any.
hasScheduledService	boolean	false	When true, returns only airports with active scheduled commercial flights.
minLat, maxLat	string (float)	null	South/north bounds of a bounding box.
minLon, maxLon	string (float)	null	West/east bounds of a bounding box.

Example: 50 largest U.S. airports with scheduled service.

{
    "maxItems": 50,
    "country": "US",
    "type": "large_airport",
    "hasScheduledService": true
}

Example: every airport in Japan via bounding box.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "minLat": "30",
    "maxLat": "46",
    "minLon": "128",
    "maxLon": "146"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: records for large and medium airports are typically accurate within meters. Small airfields and recently added heliports depend on community contributors and can vary by tens to hundreds of meters. For safety-critical routing, cross-check against an official aeronautical information publication before making operational decisions.

---

📊 Output

Each airport record contains 20 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 id	string	"6523"
🏷️ ident	string	"KJFK"
✈️ type	string	"large_airport"
🏢 name	string	"John F Kennedy International Airport"
📍 latitude	number	40.639801
📍 longitude	number	-73.7789
⛰️ elevationFt	number | null	13
🌎 continent	string	"NA"
🏳️ isoCountry	string	"US"
🗺️ isoRegion	string	"US-NY"
🏙️ municipality	string	"New York"
🛫 scheduledService	string	"yes"
🛂 icaoCode	string | null	"KJFK"
🎫 iataCode	string | null	"JFK"
🛰️ gpsCode	string | null	"KJFK"
🏷️ localCode	string | null	"JFK"
🔗 homeLink	string | null	"https://..."
📖 wikipediaLink	string | null	"https://en.wikipedia.org/..."
🏷️ keywords	string | null	"NYC, IDL, Idlewild"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

---

✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🌍	Global coverage. 85,000+ airports, heliports, seaplane bases, and airfields across 247 ISO country codes.
🎯	Multi-dimensional filtering. Country, type, scheduled-service, and bounding-box filters combine freely in a single run.
🔖	Official identifiers. ICAO, IATA, GPS, and local codes for cross-system joins with airline, weather, and flight-tracking APIs.
⚡	Fast. 10 airports in under 5 seconds, 10,000 records in under a minute.
🌐	Trusted community source. Cited by aviation developers, weather stations, and in-flight entertainment providers worldwide.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls the latest catalog, so the dataset reflects current community contributions.
🚫	No authentication. Works with public aviation data. No login or API key needed.

📊 Accurate airport master data is the foundation of every route, schedule, drone flight plan, and baggage-handling system in modern aviation.

---

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ OurAirports Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	85,000+ worldwide	Live per run	country, type, service, bounding box	⚡ 2 min
Official aeronautical publications	Free	Country-specific, limited	28-day cycle	Specialized parsing required	🐢 Days
Live flight-tracking APIs	$99+/month	Real-time, flight-level	Streaming	Many	⏳ Hours
Legacy community dumps	Free	Subset, stale	Rarely updated	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad global coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

---

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the OurAirports Global Airport Database Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a country (or leave empty for worldwide), choose an airport type, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

---

💼 Business use cases

✈️ Travel Tech & Booking Airport autocomplete with canonical IATA/ICAO codes Local airport directory synced without a parser City-to-airport mappings for search and sort "Nearest airport" features via lat/lon queries	🗺️ GIS, Mapping & OSM Global airport layers for Leaflet, Mapbox, Kepler Enrich OSM contributions with ICAO/IATA Regional airport feeds by bounding box Airport-density heatmaps by country
📊 Aviation Analysts & Researchers ML training sets with clean coordinates Hub density and service benchmarks Cross-country coverage comparisons Correlations with weather or traffic data	🚁 Logistics, Drones & Routing Multi-modal graphs with heliports and seaplane bases Drone flight-planning with elevation + position Airport nodes in supply-chain optimization No-fly-zone proximity checks

---

🔌 Automating OurAirports Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Hourly, daily, or weekly refreshes keep downstream databases in sync automatically.

---

🌟 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 Aviation networks and route analyses for academic papers Geospatial datasets for GIS coursework and theses Reproducible studies with cited, versioned dataset pulls Open-data exercises on global infrastructure mapping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, indie aviation apps, and portfolio demos Travel maps, flight-tracking dashboards, and visualizations Content research for travel bloggers and creators Hobbyist databases for pilots and aviation enthusiasts
🤝 Non-profit and civic Disaster-response logistics with airport access mapping Civic transparency around regional airport coverage Investigative journalism on aviation infrastructure OpenStreetMap and OurAirports community contributions	🧪 Experimentation Train airport-classification or routing ML models Validate travel-tech product hypotheses with real data Prototype agent pipelines that resolve airport codes Test dashboard concepts with live aviation feeds

---

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

---

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Configure your country, type, or bounding-box filters in the input form, click Start, and the Actor applies the filters server-side and emits a clean structured record per airport. No browser automation, no captchas, no setup.

📏 How accurate is the data?

Large and medium airports are typically accurate within meters. Small airfields and recently added heliports depend on community contributors and can vary by tens to hundreds of meters. For safety-critical routing, cross-check against an official aeronautical information publication before making operational decisions.

🔁 How often is the dataset refreshed?

The community catalog is updated continuously. Every run of this Actor fetches the latest data, so your dataset reflects current records as of run time.

🚁 Does it include heliports and private airfields?

Yes. Set the Airport Type filter to heliport, seaplane_base, or balloonport, or leave it empty to include every classification.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval (hourly, daily, weekly) and keep a downstream database in sync.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

OurAirports publishes under a permissive open-data license. Review the downstream terms of your specific use case, but raw airport metadata is generally public.

💼 Can I use this data commercially?

Yes. The underlying airport data is published under an open license that permits commercial use. You are responsible for complying with the license and with any downstream regulatory requirements in your own product.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to use this Actor?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs (10 records per run). A paid plan lifts the limit and gives you access to scheduling, higher concurrency, and larger datasets.

🔁 What happens if a run fails or gets interrupted?

Apify automatically retries transient errors. If a run still fails, you can inspect the log in the Runs tab, fix the input, and re-run. Partial datasets from failed runs are preserved so you never lose progress.

🛬 What if I need runway details?

This Actor returns airport-level records only. For runway length, surface, and heading, reach out via the contact form below to request a companion runway scraper.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

---

🔌 Integrate with any app

OurAirports Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe airport data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh airport data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

---

🔗 Recommended Actors

• ✈️ FAA Aircraft Registry Scraper - U.S. civil aircraft registrations and owners
• 🔌 AFDC EV Stations Scraper - U.S. alternative fuel and EV charging stations
• 🗺️ Nominatim OSM Scraper - Geocode addresses via OpenStreetMap
• 🏨 Agoda Scraper - Hotel availability, pricing, and reviews
• 📈 Indexmundi Scraper - Global demographic and economic indicators

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more reference-data scrapers.

---

🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

---

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OurAirports or any of its contributors. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open airport data is collected.