# Flight Routes (`accelerationengg/flightawareroutes`) Actor

This FlightAware Scraper Actor extracts real-time flight information for any route from FlightAware, useful for flight monitoring, travel analytics, and integration with dashboards or business intelligence tools

- **URL**: https://apify.com/accelerationengg/flightawareroutes.md
- **Developed by:** [Acceleration](https://apify.com/accelerationengg) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel
- **Stats:** 172 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 2 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 4.69 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## FlightAware Flight Scraper Actor

**Flight Scraper Actor** extracts real-time flight information from [FlightAware](https://www.flightaware.com/) for any route provided via input URLs.

## **4 Mar: As a protest to Apify wrongfully disqualifying our Actor, we are making it totally free.**

### **Features**

- Scrapes real-time flight data from FlightAware.
- Supports multiple routes via input URLs (bulk scraping).
- Captures origin, destination, airline, flight number, departure and arrival times, status, and connection type.
- Stores results in the default dataset for easy access.
- Handles JavaScript-heavy pages and uses proxies for reliability.

***

### **Input**

The Actor accepts **start URLs**, including bulk URLs (as a text file) for multiple routes.

**Single URL format:**

```
https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=KEWR&destination=OTHH
```

**Bulk URLs example:**

You can also give urls in bulk form:

```
https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=KEWR&destination=OTHH
https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=OTHH&&destination=WSSS
```

- `origin` – ICAO code of the departure airport
- `destination` – ICAO code of the arrival airport
- The Actor will process **all URLs in the input array** sequentially or concurrently (depending on `maxConcurrency`).

***

### **Output**

Each record contains the following fields:

| Airline          | Aircraft | Flight number | Status    | Departure               | Arrival                 | Connection         | Source URL                                                                 | Origin | Destination | Scraped At               |
|------------------|----------|---------------|-----------|--------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|-------------|--------------------------|
| British Airways  | A35K     | BAW84         | Scheduled | Mon 09:25 PM PST YVR   | Tue 01:10 PM GMT LHR   | London, England    | https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=CYVR\&destination=LHR   | CYVR   | LHR         | 2026-01-05T10:21:29.062Z |
|Turkish Airlines|B77W|THY76|Arrived / Gate Arrival|Tue 07:05PM PST YVR|IST 06:05PM +03 Wed|Nonstop|https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=CYVR\&destination=LTFM|CYVR|LTFM|2026-01-05T10:21:29.062Z

***

#### **JSON Output Example**

```json
[
  {
    "airline": "Turkish Airlines",
    "aircraft": "A359",
    "flightNumber": "THY730",
    "status": "Scheduled (in 16 hours 25 minutes)",
    "departure": "Sun 00:25AM EST EWR",
    "arrival": "IST 16:10PM +03 Sun",
    "connection": "Nonstop",
    "source": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=KEWR&destination=LTFM",
    "origin": "KEWR",
    "destination": "LTFM",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-01-04T09:04:43.421Z"
  }
  
]
```

### **Use Cases**

- **Flight monitoring:** Track live flights for status and schedule changes.
- **Travel analytics:** Analyze flight trends, delays, and traffic patterns.
- **Airline schedule verification:** Compare planned vs actual flights.
- **Dashboard/BI integration:** Feed flight data into business intelligence or analytics platforms.

***

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

URLs to start with.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=OTHH&destination=OEJN"
    }
  ]
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `flightsDataset` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=OTHH&destination=OEJN"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("accelerationengg/flightawareroutes").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=OTHH&destination=OEJN" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("accelerationengg/flightawareroutes").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.flightaware.com/live/findflight?origin=OTHH&destination=OEJN"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call accelerationengg/flightawareroutes --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,accelerationengg/flightawareroutes"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/6epeQp51ao93gWH33/builds/vuFPcAoNZHxiz6i3p/openapi.json