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Get real-time LAX arriving flight data via the flylax.com API. Returns flight numbers, gates, origins, scheduled times, and live status for all today's arrivals.
What is the flylax API?
The flylax.com API provides a single endpoint, get_arriving_flights, that returns a real-time snapshot of all arriving flights at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Each response includes up to dozens of flight records with 6+ fields per flight: flight number, codeshare partners, gate assignment, origin airport, scheduled arrival time, and live status such as estimated, landed, or cancelled.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/aab3b188-797e-4b02-bb6e-6edb9bdc0be8/get_arriving_flights' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Typed, relational, agent-ready
A generated client with real types, enums, and the links between objects — the structure a flat JSON response can't carry. Autocompletes in your editor and reads cleanly to coding agents.
- Fully typed · autocompletes
- Objects link to objects
- Typed errors & pagination
Typed Python client. Set up the SDK in your uv project, then pull this API’s typed client:
uv add parse-sdk uv run parse init uv run parse add --marketplace flylax-com-api
uv run parse add --marketplace pulls a pinned snapshot of this canonical API — it won’t change underneath you. To customize it, subscribe and swap to your own copy.
"""Walkthrough: LAX flights SDK — bounded, re-runnable; every call capped."""
from parse_apis.flylax_com_api import Lax, ParseError
client = Lax()
# List current arriving flights at LAX, capped at 5 for demo.
for flight in client.flights.list(limit=3):
print(flight.flight_number, flight.origin, flight.status, flight.gate)
# Grab a single flight for inspection.
one = client.flights.list(limit=1).first()
if one:
print(one.flight_number, one.airline_code, one.scheduled_arrival)
print("Codeshares:", one.codeshare_flights, one.codeshare_airlines)
# Typed error handling around the list call.
try:
for f in client.flights.list(limit=2):
print(f.flight_number, f.origin)
except ParseError as e:
print("error:", e)
print("exercised: flights.list")
Retrieves all current arriving flights at LAX. Returns the full list of today's arrivals including flight numbers, codeshare partners, gates, origins, scheduled times, and live status updates (estimated, landed, cancelled). Results are a single-page snapshot of the current flight board.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "total number of arriving flights",
"flights": "array of arriving flight records"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 369,
"flights": [
{
"gate": "TB - 132",
"origin": "Tokyo",
"status": "Estimated 4:54 PM",
"airline_code": "NH",
"flight_number": "NH6",
"codeshare_flights": [
"TG6092*",
"UA7946*"
],
"scheduled_arrival": "15 Jul 11:25 AM",
"codeshare_airlines": [
"Thai Airways International",
"United Airlines"
]
},
{
"gate": "TB",
"origin": "Auckland",
"status": "Cancelled",
"airline_code": "NZ",
"flight_number": "NZ6",
"codeshare_flights": [
"AC6093*",
"LH7165*",
"TK8728*"
],
"scheduled_arrival": "15 Jul 1:20 PM",
"codeshare_airlines": [
"Air Canada",
"Deutsche Lufthansa AG",
"Turkish Airlines"
]
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the flylax API
What the API Returns
The get_arriving_flights endpoint returns the full list of today's inbound flights to LAX as a single-page snapshot. The response contains a total field indicating the number of arriving flights at query time, and a flights array where each record carries the flight number, any codeshare partner designations, the assigned gate, the origin city or airport, the scheduled arrival time, and a live status value that reflects the current state of the flight — typically one of estimated, landed, or cancelled.
Parameters and Freshness
The endpoint takes no input parameters. It returns the current state of all arrivals without filtering by airline, terminal, or time window. Because the data reflects live airport conditions, repeated calls within the same session may return updated status values as flights progress from estimated to landed. This makes the endpoint well-suited for polling workflows that need to detect status transitions.
Data Coverage
Coverage is limited to arriving flights at LAX only. Domestic and international arrivals are included in the same response array. Each record's codeshare field exposes partner flight numbers operated under a shared designation, which is useful for matching against booking references that may differ from the operating carrier's number.
The flylax API is a managed, monitored endpoint for flylax.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when flylax.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official flylax.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Display a live arrivals board for LAX on a travel app or airport companion website.
- Send push notifications when a tracked flight's status changes from 'estimated' to 'landed'.
- Monitor cancellation rates across LAX arrivals for operational or analytical dashboards.
- Match codeshare flight numbers against passenger booking references to resolve the operating carrier.
- Alert ground transportation services when a specific flight lands so drivers can time pickups.
- Aggregate LAX arrival delays for a research or visualization project on airport performance.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does flylax.com offer an official developer API?+
What does the 'status' field in the flights array actually contain?+
Can I filter results by airline, terminal, or arrival time window?+
get_arriving_flights endpoint returns all current LAX arrivals in one response with no server-side filtering parameters. Filtering by airline code, terminal, gate, or time window must be done client-side after receiving the full flights array. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add query-parameter support for those filters.