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RUN - 42 active pipelines - indigo.in live

IndiGo flight data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract live flight schedules, dynamic fare pricing, seat availability, and 6E ancillary costs from IndiGo. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Fares extracted
1.2M /day
Route updates
8,492 /24h
Flight statuses
45K /run
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from indigo.in

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Schedules objects from indigo.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberorigin_codedestination_codedeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutesaircraft_typestopsdays_of_operation
flight_schedules
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "6E-2051",
"origin_code": "BLR",
"destination_code": "DEL",
"departure_time": "06:00",
"arrival_time": "08:45",
"duration_minutes": 165,
"aircraft_type": "A320neo",
"stops": 0
# flight_numberorigin_codedestination_codedeparture_timearrival_timeduration_minutes
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Complete list of extractable fields for Live Pricing objects from indigo.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberflight_datefare_classbase_faretaxes_and_feestotal_farecurrencyseats_remainingscrap_timestamp
live_pricing
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "6E-2051",
"flight_date": "2024-11-12",
"fare_class": "Saver",
"base_fare": 4500.0,
"taxes_and_fees": 845.0,
"total_fare": 5345.0,
"currency": "INR",
"seats_remaining": 4
# flight_numberflight_datefare_classbase_faretaxes_and_feestotal_fare
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Complete list of extractable fields for 6E Ancillaries objects from indigo.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberseat_selection_fee_minseat_selection_fee_maxfast_forward_feetiffin_cost_avgexcess_baggage_fee_per_kgprime_bundle_costcancellation_feechange_fee
6e_ancillaries
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "6E-2051",
"seat_selection_fee_min": 150.0,
"seat_selection_fee_max": 1500.0,
"fast_forward_fee": 450.0,
"excess_baggage_fee_per_kg": 500.0,
"prime_bundle_cost": 899.0,
"cancellation_fee": 3000.0
# flight_numberseat_selection_fee_minseat_selection_fee_maxfast_forward_feetiffin_cost_avgexcess_baggage_fee_per_kg
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Complete list of extractable fields for Flight Status objects from indigo.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

flight_numberflight_datestatusscheduled_departureestimated_departurescheduled_arrivalestimated_arrivaldeparture_terminaldeparture_gate
flight_status
● 200 OK
"flight_number": "6E-2051",
"flight_date": "2024-10-24",
"status": "Delayed",
"scheduled_departure": "2024-10-24T06:00:00Z",
"estimated_departure": "2024-10-24T06:45:00Z",
"departure_terminal": "T1",
"departure_gate": "12A"
# flight_numberflight_datestatusscheduled_departureestimated_departurescheduled_arrival
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Complete list of extractable fields for Route Network objects from indigo.in. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

origin_codedestination_codedistance_kmdirect_flight_availablefrequency_per_weekfirst_flight_timelast_flight_timeactive_routeseasonal_route
route_network
● 200 OK
"origin_code": "BLR",
"destination_code": "DEL",
"direct_flight_available": true,
"frequency_per_week": 112,
"first_flight_time": "05:15",
"last_flight_time": "23:45",
"active_route": true,
"seasonal_route": false
# origin_codedestination_codedistance_kmdirect_flight_availablefrequency_per_weekfirst_flight_time
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Capabilities

Extract aviation pricing and schedules without bot blocks

Our IndiGo scraper navigates complex booking flows, session token expiration, and Akamai bot mitigation to deliver structured flight data at high frequency.

Comprehensive Schedule Extraction

Extract flight numbers, departure times, arrival times, aircraft types, and layover durations across IndiGo's entire domestic and international network.

Dynamic Fare Tracking

Capture base fares, taxes, total costs, and currency data across all fare classes (Saver, Flexi Plus, Super 6E) with timestamped precision.

Seat Availability Monitoring

Track 'seats remaining' indicators to model booking velocity and flight load factors for competitive intelligence.

6E Ancillary Pricing

Scrape dynamic pricing for 6E Prime bundles, Fast Forward boarding, seat selection tiers, and excess baggage fees.

Live Flight Status

Monitor real-time delays, estimated departure times, terminal allocations, and gate changes for operational dashboards.

Multi-City Itineraries

Extract pricing and schedule data for complex multi-city routes and connecting flights, including layover constraints.

Akamai Bypass

Our infrastructure handles IndiGo's aggressive Akamai bot mitigation using residential proxies and TLS fingerprint spoofing.

Change Detection

Maintain hash indexes of last-seen fares. Subsequent runs only push price diffs, reducing downstream processing load.

Multi-Currency Support

Extract international route pricing in local currencies (AED, SGD, THB) with exact tax breakdowns.

// engagement pipeline

From route list to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide origin-destination pairs, date ranges, and frequency requirements. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for indigo.in.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, price-outlier detection, and sample payloads before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our IndiGo pipeline handles the hard parts

Airlines invest heavily in scraping detection to protect their pricing data. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction.

pipeline-monitor · indigo.in · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Bot Mitigation
Bypassing Akamai and rate limits

IndiGo uses Akamai to block automated traffic. We route requests through residential ISP proxies with realistic TLS fingerprints, matching legitimate browser behaviour to avoid IP bans and CAPTCHA walls.

Session State
Dynamic token management

Flight searches on indigo.in require complex session state and short-lived tokens. Our Playwright instances handle cookie generation, token refresh cycles, and header signing required to maintain search continuity.

Schema Stability
Resilient selectors for booking flows

The DOM structure of airline booking engines changes frequently during A/B testing. We use multi-layer fallback chains targeting API responses and structured data, rather than relying solely on fragile CSS selectors.

Change Detection
Only re-scrape what has changed

For high-frequency fare monitoring, we maintain a hash index of last-seen prices. We only emit records when a fare class price changes, saving you compute cost and storage bloat.

Monitoring
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, fare outliers, and coverage drops, responding before you notice missing data.

Applications

Who uses IndiGo data - and how

Teams across industries use indigo.in data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
OTA Pricing Intelligence

Online travel agencies monitor direct-channel pricing to adjust their own markups, discounts, and promotional displays.

02
Competitor Benchmarking

Rival airlines track IndiGo's route frequencies, fare adjustments, and ancillary pricing to optimise their own yield management systems.

03
Travel Aggregator Feeds

Meta-search engines ingest scheduled and live pricing data to populate their flight comparison matrices without relying solely on expensive GDS APIs.

04
Corporate Travel Optimisation

Enterprise travel managers analyse historical fare data on frequent corporate routes to negotiate better bulk rates and optimise booking windows.

05
Dynamic Pricing Models

Machine learning teams use historical fare fluctuations, seat availability, and seasonality data to train predictive pricing algorithms.

06
Route Profitability Analysis

Aviation analysts track new route launches, frequency changes, and seasonal adjustments to model market share and capacity utilisation.

Why DataFlirt

"IndiGo operates over 2,000 daily flights - tracking their dynamic pricing and route adjustments requires infrastructure, not just a script."

Aviation pricing is highly volatile and protected by aggressive bot mitigation. Scraping indigo.in requires residential proxy rotation, session token management, and continuous schema monitoring to prevent pipeline failure. DataFlirt handles the infrastructure so your analysts can focus on yield management and competitor benchmarking.

Technical Spec

IndiGo scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our indigo.in scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for booking flow hydration and token generation
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs from IN pools, rotated per search session
Supported
Multi-currency extraction
Extract pricing in INR, AED, SGD, THB, and other supported currencies
Supported
Ancillary fee scraping
Capture dynamic costs for 6E Prime, seat selection, and excess baggage
Supported
Live flight status
Extract real-time delays, terminal allocations, and gate numbers
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with changed fares since last run
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time OTA pricing updates
Supported
PNR passenger details
Gated data requires specific PNR and last name authentication
Partial
6E Rewards member pricing
Requires authenticated login to access co-branded cardholder discounts
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the IndiGo pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheusTerraform
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across IN regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Excel format for business analysts and finance teams
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoints to query latest cached fare data
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow - incremental or full-replace
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
// faq

Common questions.

About indigo.in scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping IndiGo legal?

Scraping publicly available flight schedules and pricing from indigo.in is generally permissible for non-disruptive, public data collection. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated search results. We do not extract personal passenger data, circumvent PNR authentication walls, or violate data privacy laws. Clients should review airline terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific commercial use cases.

How do you handle IndiGo's bot protection?

We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic TLS fingerprints, and dynamic session token management. Our infrastructure is designed to mimic legitimate user search behaviour, preventing IP bans and Akamai blocks.

Can you track 6E ancillary pricing?

Yes. We extract dynamic costs for 6E Prime bundles, seat selection (window, aisle, extra legroom), fast forward boarding, and excess baggage fees associated with specific flights.

How fresh is the pricing data?

Real-time streaming pipelines can achieve sub-15-minute latency for specific high-priority routes. Full network sweeps typically run at hourly or daily cadences depending on your budget and data requirements.

Can you track seat availability?

We capture the 'seats remaining' indicator displayed during the booking flow, which provides a proxy for flight load factors and booking velocity on specific routes.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined route list (typically 50-500 origin-destination pairs) with daily delivery. For larger network monitoring or high-frequency intra-day scraping, we price based on compute volume and proxy bandwidth.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 20 routes for a specific date range as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=indigo.in ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a daily schedule dump or continuous intra-day fare monitoring across 1,000 routes, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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