# AWeirdDev/flights

Fast, robust Google Flights scraper (API) for Python. (Probably)

Repository: https://github.com/AWeirdDev/flights
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flights
Homepage: http://flights.aweird.me/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: airport, flights, google-flights, google-flights-api, google-flights-wrapper, python, travel, trip, protobuf, protobuf3
Last push: 2026-08-18T07:30:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 86, longevity 60
- inputs: {"age_days": 843, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 54, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1939, forks 237 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:57.044662+00:00)

## What it is
fast-flights is a Python library that scrapes Google Flights by generating Base64-encoded Protobuf query strings, returning strongly-typed flight search results. It supports filters for stops, airlines, times, layovers, price, and bags, with optional proxy integrations like Bright Data and Playwright fallback.

## Use cases
- scrape flight prices from google flights
- search flights between two airports in python
- get cheapest flight options for a date
- monitor flight prices programmatically
- filter flights by stops airlines and departure time
- build a travel price alert tool

## When to choose
- you need programmatic access to Google Flights data without an official API key
- you want typed Python objects for flight queries and results
- you need fine-grained filters like layover duration, airlines, or max price

## When to avoid
- you need a guaranteed SLA or commercial-grade API reliability
- you cannot tolerate breakage when Google changes its internal protobuf format
- you need data sources other than Google Flights

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-client, parser, sdk
- domain: travel, crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: google-flights, flights, protobuf, scraper, travel-search, airports

## Member repositories
- AWeirdDev/flights (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.044662+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:08:10.390677+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/AWeirdDev/flights (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.044662+00:00, sha e729fbccbe2b)
  - homepage: http://flights.aweird.me/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:47:24.076412+00:00, sha 61962c68e52c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.