Google Flights Smart Scraper

An Apify actor for scraping flight data from Google Flights. It's designed to be a cost-effective and reliable alternative to other scrapers, with a focus on accurate data extraction, especially for complex itineraries like transit flights.

Key Features

• Affordable, Pay-Per-Use Pricing: No monthly subscription. Costs $7.50 for the default tier, with a discounted rate of $5.51 per 1000 flights for the gold tier.
• Smart Data Lookup: Uses expertise from flight applications to clean and validate scraped data, fixing common issues like missing flight codes, durations, or times that often occur with transit flights.
• Flexible Input: Accepts flight requirements in two ways:
  • A simple text string (e.g., "DXB to LHR on 2025-10-23").
  • A structured JSON array for scraping multiple routes in a single run.

How to Use

Configure the actor run with your flight search requirements via the input.

Input

You can provide input as a plain text string for a single search or as JSON for multiple searches.

Option 1: Simple Text String
Use a natural language format for a one-way or round-trip search.
Example: "DXB to LHR on 2025-10-23" or "LHR to SIN departing 2025-10-23 returning 2025-11-01"

Option 2: JSON Array (for multiple routes)
Provide an array of search objects. Each object must contain origin, destination, and departureDate. returnDate is optional for round trips.

[
  {
    "origin": "LHR",
    "destination": "SIN",
    "departureDate": "2025-10-23",
    "returnDate": "2025-11-01"
  },
  {
    "origin": "DXB",
    "destination": "LHR",
    "departureDate": "2025-10-24"
  }
]

Output

The actor outputs a structured dataset containing the scraped flight information. Due to the smart lookup, the data is cleaned and validated, aiming for complete fields for each flight (airline, flight numbers, times, duration, price, etc.). The exact schema of the output items is available in the actor's dataset preview after a run.

Future Updates & Feedback

A planned update will integrate AI to allow for even more flexible natural language input, which may slightly adjust pricing. Suggestions and feedback are welcome at dev at acceleration dot pk.