Obsidian Plugins Scraper — Dataset with Downloads

Export the entire Obsidian community plugin catalog (~8,900 plugins) as a clean Obsidian plugins dataset: plugin ID, name, author, description, GitHub repository, lifetime download counts and last-update time.

There is no other Obsidian plugins scraper on Apify Store. Use this Actor as an Obsidian plugins API / dataset when you need structured JSON/CSV for PKM research, plugin analytics or lead lists — the whole catalog in about 3 seconds.

Why this scraper

• Full catalog export. Merges Obsidian's official plugin list with official download stats.
• Keyword search by ID, name, description, author or repo (ai, calendar, git).
• Download threshold and sort by downloads, name or recently updated.
• Fast. Two JSON requests. No browser, no proxy, no login. Runs in ~3 seconds on 256 MB.

Use cases

• Plugin authors benchmarking downloads against competitors
• PKM / note-taking market research
• Lead lists of open-source developers and their GitHub repositories
• Finding stale or abandoned plugins (sort by updated) to fork or replace
• Scheduled daily snapshots to chart download growth

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Optional keyword. Empty = whole catalog.
minDownloads	integer	Skip plugins below this lifetime download count.
sortBy	downloads / name / updated	Result order.
maxItems	integer	Max results (default 50; set 10000 for the full catalog).

Example — AI-related plugins with more than 10,000 downloads:

{ "searchQuery": "ai", "minDownloads": 10000, "sortBy": "downloads", "maxItems": 1000 }

Sample output (from a real run)

{
  "id": "obsidian-excalidraw-plugin",
  "name": "Excalidraw",
  "author": "zsviczian",
  "description": "Visual PKM powerhouse. Create and edit Excalidraw drawings.",
  "repo": "zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin",
  "downloads": 8501258,
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T20:26:12+00:00",
  "pluginUrl": "https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=obsidian-excalidraw-plugin",
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T06:54:45+00:00"
}

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML — or pull via Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

You pay per Apify platform usage for your run (a full-catalog run uses well under $0.01). Pay-per-event pricing may apply depending on the Store listing.

FAQ

Is it legal? Reads only the public, unauthenticated catalog files that the Obsidian app itself loads (community-plugins.json and community-plugin-stats.json in obsidianmd/obsidian-releases). No personal data beyond public author names.

How fresh is the data? Fetched live on every run. Obsidian updates download stats continuously. Schedule the Actor to build a history.

Keywords people search: Obsidian plugins dataset, Obsidian plugins scraper, Obsidian community plugins download counts, Obsidian plugins API, PKM plugin analytics.

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