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FlightAware Travel Scraper

Extract flight status updates, delay predictions, airport activity, and historical flight performance 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_time": "string",
    "arrival_time": "string",
    "origin": "string",
    "destination": "string",
    "aircraft": "string",
    "delay": "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-travel-scraper.ts
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();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Flight numberStatusDeparture timeArrival timeOriginDestinationAircraftDelay
Pricing

Dynamic rate capture

Session-aware scraping captures pricing on flightaware.com that changes per visitor.

Rendering

Complex SPA handling

Full browser rendering for React/Next.js booking interfaces and search results.

Scale

Destination coverage

Scrape listings across thousands of destinations and date ranges concurrently.

Related

More Travel 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.