npm Package Search Scraper

Search the npm registry and get every package with version, description, keywords, maintainers, license, links, weekly and monthly downloads, dependents count and quality scores.

What you get

• Keyword search with npm search qualifiers (author:, keywords:, scope:)
• Weekly and monthly download counts
• Dependents count, maintainers and publisher
• Quality, popularity and maintenance scores
• Links to repository, homepage and bug tracker
• Deep pagination with no page limit

How to use

1. Open the Input tab. The form is already filled with a working example.
2. Change the fields to your own search, or keep the example to see the output format.
3. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML from the Output tab, or read them through the Apify API.

Input

Field	What it does
Search query	Words or npm qualifiers such as keywords:scraper or scope:types.
Maximum results	Stop after this many packages.

Example input:

{
  "query": "web scraping",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

Each result is one row. Main fields:

Field	Description
name	Package name
url	npm page
version	Latest version
description	Description
keywords	Keywords
license	License
publishedAt	Latest release date
publisher	Publisher username
maintainers	Maintainers
weeklyDownloads	Downloads last week
monthlyDownloads	Downloads last month
dependents	Number of dependents
homepage	Homepage
repository	Repository
bugs	Bug tracker
scoreFinal	Overall score
scoreQuality	Quality score
scoreMaintenance	Maintenance score
scorePopularity	Popularity score
isInsecure	Flagged insecure
scope	Scope

Example output (shortened):

{
  "name": "@brightdata/sdk",
  "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/@brightdata/sdk",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "description": "JavaScript SDK for Bright Data Web Scraping and SERP APIs",
  "keywords": [
    "brightdata",
    "web scraping",
    "proxy"
  ],
  "license": "MIT",
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-02T12:41:22.671Z",
  "publisher": "GitHub Actions",
  "maintainers": [
    "meirk-brd",
    "brd-cholpon",
    "brightdata.com"
  ],
  "weeklyDownloads": 12317,
  "monthlyDownloads": 58124,
  "dependents": 6,
  "homepage": "https://github.com/brightdata/sdk-js#readme",
  "repository": "git+https://github.com/brightdata/sdk-js.git",
  "bugs": "https://github.com/brightdata/sdk-js/issues",
  "scoreFinal": 333.4763,
  "scoreQuality": 1,
  "scoreMaintenance": 1,
  "scorePopularity": 1,
  "isInsecure": false
}

Good to know

• The Actor never fails on a bad or empty input. It finishes with a clear message in the run status explaining what to change.
• Results are saved while the run is going, so you can open the dataset before it finishes.

Support

Found a field that is missing or a result that looks wrong? Open an issue from the Actor page and include the run link.