Blender Extensions Scraper

Export the entire official Blender Extensions platform (about 1,400 add-ons and themes) as clean, structured data: name, id, type, version, tagline, download count, star rating and review count, maintainer and author/team, tags, supported Blender version range, license, platforms, required permissions, thumbnail and direct download URLs.

There is no other Blender Extensions scraper on Apify Store. If you sell or build Blender add-ons, run a 3D studio, research the open-source 3D ecosystem, or curate tools for Blender 4.2+ and 5.x, this Actor gives you the whole catalog in under a minute.

What can it do?

• Full catalog export. Every add-on and theme from the official JSON API that Blender itself uses to browse and install extensions.
• Downloads, ratings and reviews. Merged in from the public listing pages, so you can rank extensions by real adoption.
• Keyword search. Matches id, name, tagline, maintainer, author and tags (for example uv, retopology, rigging, dark).
• Blender version targeting. 4.2 returns every extension compatible with Blender 4.2; 5.0 targets Blender 5; any returns everything.
• Type, platform and tag filters. Add-ons vs. themes, Windows / Linux / macOS builds, and any tag (Mesh, Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Node, UV, Render, Import-Export...).
• Per-platform builds merged. Extensions shipped as separate Windows, macOS and Linux archives are returned as one record with a builds list.
• Fast and cheap. Plain HTTP and JSON. No browser, no proxy, no login. Runs on 256 MB.

Use cases

• Add-on developers tracking competing extensions, ratings and download growth
• Studios, schools and course creators curating Blender 4.2+ / 5.x-ready tools
• Ecosystem research: which categories, licenses and Blender versions dominate
• Lead lists of Blender add-on maintainers and teams
• Scheduled snapshots to detect newly published, updated or trending extensions

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Optional keyword. Empty = whole catalog.
extensionType	any / add-on / theme	Add-ons or interface themes.
blenderVersion	string	e.g. 4.2, 4.5, 5.0, or any.
platform	string	any, windows-x64, windows-arm64, linux-x64, macos-arm64, macos-x64.
tags	array	Keep extensions with at least one of these tags.
includeStats	boolean	Merge downloads, rating, review count, author and thumbnail (about 90 light page requests, ~45 s).
minDownloads	integer	Skip extensions below this download count.
sortBy	downloads / rating / reviews / name / default	Result order.
maxItems	integer	Max results (default 100; set 5000 for the full catalog).

Example: the 50 most downloaded Blender 4.2-compatible modeling add-ons:

{ "extensionType": "add-on", "blenderVersion": "4.2", "tags": ["Modeling", "Mesh"], "sortBy": "downloads", "maxItems": 50 }

Tip: with includeStats: false a full-catalog run takes about 3 seconds (no downloads/ratings). With stats on, allow about 45-60 seconds.

Output

{
  "id": "mio3_uv",
  "slug": "mio3-uv",
  "name": "Mio3 UV",
  "type": "add-on",
  "version": "2.2.0",
  "tagline": "UV Edit Assistant Tools",
  "maintainer": "mio",
  "author": "mio",
  "authorUrl": "https://extensions.blender.org/author/2411/",
  "downloads": 303754,
  "rating": 5.0,
  "reviewCount": 130,
  "tags": [
    "UV"
  ],
  "blenderVersionMin": "5.0.0",
  "blenderVersionMax": null,
  "license": [
    "GPL-3.0-or-later"
  ],
  "platforms": [],
  "permissions": {
    "files": "Imports images, nodes, and translations from the bundled files"
  },
  "archiveSize": 5203225,
  "archiveUrl": "https://extensions.blender.org/download/sha256:597e349839c347c7894381b4fcbcea7777ec034f604ad753bcb1038323478219/add-on-mio3-uv-v2.2.0.zip",
  "archiveHash": "sha256:597e349839c347c7894381b4fcbcea7777ec034f604ad753bcb1038323478219",
  "builds": [
    {
      "platforms": [],
      "archiveUrl": "https://extensions.blender.org/download/sha256:597e349839c347c7894381b4fcbcea7777ec034f604ad753bcb1038323478219/add-on-mio3-uv-v2.2.0.zip",
      "archiveSize": 5203225,
      "archiveHash": "sha256:597e349839c347c7894381b4fcbcea7777ec034f604ad753bcb1038323478219"
    }
  ],
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://extensions.blender.org/media/thumbnails/55/55a5e40a87f5f567dc60fa2d477dabcf1f1f5c0b58a54bf4e960f523f50665a9_640x360.webp",
  "url": "https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/mio3-uv/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T09:33:02.003925+00:00"
}

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML, or pull results through the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n.

Pricing

Free to use right now: you pay only the tiny Apify platform usage of your own run. Pay-per-result pricing may be added later, with advance notice as Apify requires.

FAQ

Is it legal? The Actor reads only public, unauthenticated data: the official Blender Extensions API that Blender uses to install extensions, plus the public listing pages for download and rating counts. It respects robots.txt, requests pages politely with limited concurrency, and collects only the public maintainer and author names shown on the site.

How fresh is the data? Fetched live on every run. Download counts and ratings are as shown on extensions.blender.org at run time.

Why do some records have no thumbnail? Extensions without an uploaded preview image show a generic icon on the site; thumbnailUrl is null for those.

Something broken or a field missing? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.