📦 Quay.io Container Tags Scraper

List every tag in a Quay.io repository as a row: tag name, manifest digest, size, last modified date and whether it is still current. Give it a namespace/name slug and it pages the tag list for you. No login, no API token.

Quay.io hosts the container images a great deal of infrastructure runs on, including coreos/etcd and prometheus/prometheus. The tag list is shown a page at a time in a web console, and the digests, timestamps and expiry flags that matter live behind it. If you keep a record of what you deploy, audit which tags are still live, or want release history for an image, you end up clicking through pages. This Actor reads the tag list and writes each tag into a dataset.

Who uses it	What they use the tag list for
🛠 Platform and DevOps engineers	Keeping an inventory of the image tags in use, with digests pinned
🔐 Security and supply chain teams	Auditing which tags are still current and which have expired
🧪 Release engineers	Reading an image's release cadence from lastModified across tags
🔍 Technical diligence teams	Checking what a target company ships publicly and how often it ships it

📋 What it does

💡 Why it matters: a tag moves, a digest does not. Pulling both in one row is what turns "we run v3.7.1" into something you can verify later.

• 🏷 Pages the full tag list for any public namespace/name repository.
• 🔐 Returns the manifest digest alongside the tag name, so a pin is reproducible.
• 📅 Keeps the last modified date as a readable string and as a Unix timestamp.
• 🎯 Single tag mode. Pass specificTag for an exact name and skip the pagination entirely.
• 🧹 Active only, by default. Expired and hidden tags are excluded unless you ask for them.
• 📦 One row per tag, the same 14 fields every run, exportable as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

📊 Output

Every tag is one flat row. null means Quay publishes no value for that field on that tag.

Field	Type	Description
📚 repository	string	The repository slug the row came from, for example coreos/etcd
🏷 name	string	Tag name, for example v3.7.1
🔐 manifestDigest	string	The sha256: digest the tag points at
📏 size	integer	Compressed size in bytes. null on multi architecture tags, where size lives on each child manifest
📅 lastModified	string	Last modification date as Quay formats it, for example Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:36:01 -0000
🕐 startTs	integer	Unix timestamp the tag became current
🕔 endTs	integer	Unix timestamp the tag stopped being current. null while it is still current
⏳ expiration	string	Expiry set on the tag, null when none is set
🆔 dockerImageId	string	Legacy Docker v1 image id, null for images built without it
🔁 reversion	boolean	true when the tag was restored to an earlier manifest
🧩 isManifestList	boolean	true when the tag points at a multi architecture manifest list
✅ isCurrent	boolean	true when this is the live version of the tag
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection
⚠️ error	string	null on a normal row

Example rows

{
  "repository": "coreos/etcd",
  "name": "v3.7.1",
  "manifestDigest": "sha256:3c66a5191d37a11af19f50ad49beed162a988bd1752eabc9fe6b164f7ee443e5",
  "size": null,
  "lastModified": "Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:36:01 -0000",
  "startTs": 1784835361,
  "endTs": null,
  "expiration": null,
  "dockerImageId": null,
  "reversion": false,
  "isManifestList": true,
  "isCurrent": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T16:21:20.610Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "repository": "coreos/etcd",
  "name": "v3.7.1-s390x",
  "manifestDigest": "sha256:ea087ea6d67ae1eb9637c180aeebed86dd5e9e0f5d658eda230f767b03447a61",
  "size": 21655013,
  "lastModified": "Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:35:42 -0000",
  "startTs": 1784835342,
  "endTs": null,
  "expiration": null,
  "dockerImageId": null,
  "reversion": false,
  "isManifestList": false,
  "isCurrent": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T16:21:20.714Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
Digest and tag on one row	Pin by digest without a second lookup per tag.
Timestamps in both forms	lastModified for reading, startTs for sorting and differencing.
The lifecycle flags	isCurrent, endTs, expiration and reversion say whether a tag is still real.
No credentials	Public repositories are read without a Quay account or token.
$0.0085 a row	A thousand tags costs $8.50, and a repository with no tags costs nothing.

🚀 How to use it

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts start with $5 of credit.
2. Open the Actor and select Try for free.
3. Put the repository slug in repository, in namespace/name form.
4. Set maxItems to cap the run. Leave onlyActiveTags on true unless you want expired tags too.
5. Select Start, then export from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

A first run:

{
  "repository": "coreos/etcd",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "onlyActiveTags": true
}

One exact tag:

{
  "repository": "prometheus/prometheus",
  "specificTag": "v2.53.0"
}

Everything, including expired tags:

{
  "repository": "coreos/etcd",
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "onlyActiveTags": false
}

⚙️ Input

Field	Required	Description
repository	No	Repository slug in namespace/name form, for example coreos/etcd. Defaults to coreos/etcd
maxItems	No	Maximum tags to collect in a run
onlyActiveTags	No	true excludes expired and hidden tags. Defaults to true
specificTag	No	Exact tag name. Set it and the Actor returns that tag only, ignoring pagination

💰 Pricing

Pay per result. No subscription, and no Apify platform usage on top.

Apify plan	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Per tag row	$0.0085	$0.00817	$0.00783	$0.0075	$0.0075	$0.0075

Rows collected	Cost on the Free plan
100	$0.85
1,000	$8.50
10,000	$85.00

Free plan runs return a small preview. Any paid Apify plan lifts the cap.

🔌 Integrate with any app

The dataset is available through the Apify API as soon as the run finishes. Use run-sync-get-dataset-items for a one-shot call, webhooks to trigger what happens next, or the Make, Zapier, Airbyte and LangChain integrations listed on the Actor page. On a schedule, it becomes a tag history for the repositories you depend on.

🤖 Use with an AI agent

Give an agent live access to Quay.io tag lists over the Model Context Protocol:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=acquistion-automation/quay-io-tags-scraper"

Then ask it in plain language for the newest tag of an image and read the digest back.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Why is size null on some tags? Multi architecture tags point at a manifest list rather than a single image, and Quay reports no single size for them. Those rows have isManifestList set to true. The per architecture tags beside them carry a size.

Can it read a private repository? No. It reads public repositories only, with no token.

How do I get just one tag? Set specificTag to the exact name. Pagination is skipped and the run returns that tag.

What does reversion mean? Quay sets it when a tag has been moved back to an earlier manifest, so the current digest is one the tag pointed at before.

Why is dockerImageId empty? It is a legacy Docker v1 identifier. Images built with modern tooling do not carry one, and Quay returns nothing for it.

What can I export? CSV, Excel, JSON and XML from the run page, or JSON straight from the API.

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🆘 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor with your run ID, the input you used, and what you expected to get back.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Quay.io or Red Hat, Inc. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using that data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable law.