FlightAware Scraper
Spider read flightaware.com in 1.8 s without a browser and returned 40 lines of clean markdown, including the section "Flight Tracker Overview".
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 browserThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on flightaware.com.
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");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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 for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What flightaware.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000159 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping flightaware.com.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.