Live fares
Real-time prices, fare classes, and price changes across cabins and currencies.
Flight price scraper that doesn't get grounded
Travel aggregators were not built for agents. Browserbase runs real browsers that pull live flight prices, schedules, and seat availability from them. Geolocated, persistent, and built to scale. Built on infrastructure that runs 35m+ browser sessions a month.
The Problem
Why flight scraping breaks
- Travel sites render prices through heavy JavaScript and dynamic search forms.
- Fares change based on the visitor’s location, currency, and prior session history.
- Aggressive bot detection blocks scripted browsers within minutes.
- Captchas and rate limits trigger as soon as you parallelize.
- A single missed price or stale itinerary breaks every downstream model.
The Solution
How Browserbase scrapes flight data reliably
- Real browsers: execute every script and render prices the way a traveler sees them.
- Geolocated proxies: check fares from any country or city, with the correct currency.
- Verified: reach aggregator and OTA pages that turn away ordinary tooling, with no per-site tuning.
- Agent Identity: Web Bot Auth signs your agent's requests, so aggregators can verify it instead of guessing.
- Managed CAPTCHA solving: clear challenges without rotating providers or babysitting jobs.
- Parallel sessions: check thousands of routes and dates concurrently in the cloud.
Data you can collect
Schedules and routes
Departure and arrival times, layovers, durations, and operating airlines.
Seat availability
Inventory by cabin class, fare buckets, and remaining seats per segment.
Templates
Templates to get you started
Scrape e-commerce products
E-commerce
Search multiple e-commerce retailers simultaneously and extract structured product data including prices, descriptions, and availability.
Smart fetch scraper with browser fallback
Web Automation, Fetch API
Scrape webpages with Fetch first, and a full browser session as fallback for JS-rendered pages.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I scrape Google Flights?
Run a real browser through Browserbase, navigate to the flight search page, fill in your origin, destination, and dates, and extract the rendered results. JavaScript execution, CAPTCHA challenges, and Verified access are handled for you, so the same script keeps working without rotating tools.
Can you scrape flight prices legally?
It depends on the site’s terms of service and the jurisdiction you operate in. Public, non-authenticated flight data is generally less restricted than data behind a login, but you should review each site’s terms and consult counsel before deploying a scraper at scale. Browserbase provides the infrastructure, you decide what to collect.
Why do flight prices change based on location?
Airlines and aggregators price fares dynamically based on the visitor’s region, currency, and historical search behavior. To collect comparable data across markets, you need a real browser served through a proxy in the target geography. Browserbase’s geolocated proxies let you check fares from any country with the correct local currency.
