🌅 Sunrise, Sunset & Twilight Times Scraper

🚀 Export solar event times for any coordinate, any date, anywhere on Earth. Pull sunrise, sunset, solar noon, day length, civil/nautical/astronomical twilight, and golden hour in one call. Bulk-query thousands of cities and dates per run. No API key, no registration, no manual JSON wrangling.

The Sunrise Sunset Times Scraper queries the Sunrise Sunset Times feed and returns 21 structured fields per record, including the geodetic location, the date, all solar event times, day-length in seconds and human-readable form, both twilight bands, and golden-hour start and end. Polar-day and polar-night locations are detected and flagged automatically.

The output covers every land and ocean coordinate, every date past or future, and every twilight band photographers and astronomers care about. This Actor delivers the data as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in seconds. All computations happen server-side, so you skip ephemeris-math entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Photographers, drone pilots, agriculture analysts, solar-energy modelers, astronomy hobbyists, outdoor activity apps, smart-lighting controllers	Golden-hour planning, dawn/dusk drone restrictions, panel-orientation modeling, sky-watching schedules, lighting-automation triggers

📋 What the Sunrise Sunset Times Scraper does

Three workflows in a single run:

• 📍 Per-coordinate solar event lookup. Sunrise, sunset, solar noon for any latitude and longitude.
• 📅 Multi-date bulk export. Pass a list of dates to chart seasonal day-length curves.
• 🌗 Twilight + golden-hour computation. Civil, nautical, astronomical twilights plus golden hour morning end and golden hour evening begin.

Each record includes the location label, lat/lon, date, IANA timezone of the response, polar-condition flag, every solar event, and day length in seconds and human-readable form.

💡 Why it matters: sunrise and twilight times shape photography workflows, drone-flight legality, solar-panel modeling, and outdoor-event scheduling. Computing them locally requires an ephemeris library and careful UTC/local conversion. This Actor returns ready-to-use times in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: astronomicalTwilightBegin, astronomicalTwilightEnd, civilTwilightBegin, civilTwilightEnd, date, dayLengthHuman, dayLengthSeconds, goldenHourEveningBegin, goldenHourMorningEnd, latitude, longitude, name, nauticalTwilightBegin, nauticalTwilightEnd, polarCondition, scrapedAt, solarNoon, sunrise, sunset, timezone. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Sunrise Sunset Times Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Provide your coordinates and dates, choose ISO or human time format.
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: 2-4 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Sunrise Sunset Times project or any third-party astronomical service. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data is collected.

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