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FlightAware Scraper

Extract live flight tracking data, airport delay statuses, historical flight records, and airline route maps from FlightAware. Built on spider-browser .

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target
flightaware.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/flightaware.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flightaware.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://flightaware.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "flight_number": "string",
    "status": "string",
    "departure": "string",
    "arrival": "string",
    "aircraft_type": "string",
    "altitude": "string",
    "speed": "string",
    "route": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from flightaware.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

flightaware-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KJFK");
await page.content();

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const flights = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("table.prettyTable tbody tr, .flightRow").forEach(el => {
    const ident = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1) a, .ident")?.textContent?.trim();
    const type = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2), .aircraftType")?.textContent?.trim();
    const origin = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3) a, .origin")?.textContent?.trim();
    const departure = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4), .departure")?.textContent?.trim();
    const arrival = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(5), .arrival")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (ident) flights.push({ ident, type, origin, departure, arrival });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: flights.length, flights: flights.slice(0, 20) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Flight numberStatusDepartureArrivalAircraft typeAltitudeSpeedRoute
Data

Tracking extraction

Extract shipment status, delivery estimates, and tracking details from flightaware.com.

Rendering

Dynamic tracking

Handle real-time tracking maps and status update interfaces.

Scale

Bulk tracking

Process thousands of tracking numbers and shipment records concurrently.

Related

More Logistics & Shipping scrapers.

Start

Start scraping flightaware.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.