GET flightaware.com HTTP 2001.8 s2.7 KB$0.000159 captured Aug 7, 2026

flightaware.com, as data

One API turns any flightaware.com page into markdown, structured JSON, its link graph or a screenshot, and crawls the whole site the same way. The panel shows the real response we captured.

target profile from the capture

Render mode: Plain HTTP, no browser needed
Response: HTTP 200 in 1.8 s
Page size: 2.7 KB of markdown, 40 lines
Fields: Flight number, Status, Departure, Arrival and 4 more
Captured: Aug 7, 2026

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Free balance on signup, no card. This flightaware.com page cost $0.000159 to fetch.

response 200 · 1.8 s · 2.7 KB

Quickly & Easily Track a Flight(FlightAware Live Flight Tracker Map)Airport Activity (all flights)Browse by Operator (all flights)Browse by Aircraft Type (all flights)*Can't decide? Click here for a random airport or flight.*### Flight Tracker OverviewTracking **15,996** airborne aircraft with **698,958,232** total flights in the database.FlightAware has tracked **201,383** arrivals in the last 24 hours.FlightAware offers displays of airborne special humanitarian relief flights such as Lifeguard and Angel FlightsDon't have an account? Register now (free) for customized features, flight alerts, and more!**Your browser is unsupported.**upgrade your browser

POST /scrape · flightaware.com/live.md · markdown · 40 lines · captured Aug 7, 2026

What Spider does on flightaware.com

Same key, five endpoints. The numbers under a cell were measured on this page.

/scrape

Page to markdown

Clean text for RAG and LLM context, boilerplate removed. The lane that runs without a key.

1.8 s · $0.000159

/fetch

Page to JSON

Spider reads the page and names the fields. Pass your own schema when you need exact keys.

/crawl

Whole site

Follows flightaware.com's own links, respects robots, streams pages as they land.

/links

Link graph

Every internal and external URL on a page, before you decide what to fetch.

/screenshot

Rendered capture

Real Chromium, full-page PNG. The same call also returns the rendered HTML.

The call behind the panel

This request produced the response above. Paste it with your key and you get the same bytes.

request scrape.sh

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/?v=1.0.24", "return_format": "markdown"}'

from spider import Spider

app = Spider()
params = {"return_format": "markdown"}
page = app.scrape_url("https://www.flightaware.com/live/?v=1.0.24", params=params)
print(page[0]["content"])

import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";

const app = new Spider();
const [page] = await app.scrapeUrl("https://www.flightaware.com/live/?v=1.0.24", {
  return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(page.content);

plain request · no browser, no selectors

What flightaware.com costs

Multiplied from the measured 2.7 KB page. Estimates round to the cent.

cost measured

This page, once 2.7 KB over HTTP, measured $0.000159

This page, daily for a month 30 fetches at the measured price ≈ $0.004783

1,000 pages this size 2.6 MB at the measured price ≈ $0.16

10,000 pages this size 26.3 MB at the measured price ≈ $1.59

1 GB of transfer costs $1, plus $0.001 per CPU minute, and failed requests cost $0. Crawling daily? The Unlimited plan is a flat monthly rate.

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The capture above took 1.8 s and cost $0.000159. The same call takes any URL on flightaware.com.

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