FlightAware Travel Scraper
Extract flight status updates, delay predictions, airport activity, and historical flight performance from FlightAware. Built on spider-browser .
- target
- flightaware.com
- success rate
- 99.9%
- latency
- ~4ms
/fetch/flightaware.com/ 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"}'
{
"url": "https://flightaware.com/",
"status": 200,
"data": {
"flight_number": "string",
"status": "string",
"departure_time": "string",
"arrival_time": "string",
"origin": "string",
"destination": "string",
"aircraft": "string",
"delay": "string"
}
} # FlightAware Travel Scraper
**Flight number**: string
**Status**: string
**Departure time**: string
**Arrival time**: string
**Origin**: string
**Destination**: string
**Aircraft**: string
**Delay**: string Extract data in minutes.
Structured JSON from flightaware.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
stealth: 2,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KJFK/departures");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const flights = [];
document.querySelectorAll(".prettyTable tr.smallrow1, .prettyTable tr.smallrow2").forEach(el => {
const ident = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(1)")?.textContent?.trim();
const type = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
const destination = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
const departure = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(4)")?.textContent?.trim();
const arrival = el.querySelector("td:nth-child(5)")?.textContent?.trim();
if (ident) flights.push({ ident, type, destination, departure, arrival });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: flights.length, flights: flights.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close(); curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flightaware.com/ \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"return_format": "json"}' import requests
resp = requests.post(
"https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flightaware.com/",
headers={
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json()) const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/flightaware.com/", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
"Content-Type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data); Fields you can pull.
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Start scraping flightaware.com.
Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.