# Sublime Text Package Control Scraper (`confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper`) Actor

Export the full Sublime Text Package Control catalog (~5,400 packages) with authors, labels, versions, platforms and homepages from the official public channel_v3.json. Fast, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Kaleb Holley](https://apify.com/confidential_marina) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Sublime Text Package Control Scraper

Export the **entire [Package Control](https://packagecontrol.io) catalog** for Sublime Text (about 5,400 packages) as clean, structured data: name, authors, description, labels, homepage, latest version, platforms, Sublime Text version constraints and download URL.

Data comes from the official public [`channel_v3.json`](https://packagecontrol.io/channel_v3.json) that the Package Control client itself downloads. No browser, no proxy, no login.

### What can it do?

- **Full catalog export.** Flattens every repository listed in Package Control's channel cache into one dataset.
- **Keyword search.** Filter by name, description, author, homepage or label (for example `lint`, `git`, `theme`).
- **Label filter.** Keep only packages tagged with a given Package Control label.
- **Sort.** Recently updated, name A-Z, or most releases.
- **Fast and cheap.** One JSON request (~4 MB). Runs in a few seconds on 256 MB.

### Use cases

- Plugin authors researching competing Sublime Text packages
- Editor / IDE market research (which categories dominate Package Control)
- Lead lists of open-source Sublime Text developers and their repos
- Finding stale or abandoned packages (sort by `updated`) to fork or replace
- Scheduled snapshots to track catalog growth over time

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQuery` | string | Optional keyword. Empty = whole catalog. |
| `label` | string | Keep only packages whose labels contain this text. |
| `sortBy` | `updated` / `name` / `releases` | Result order. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max results (default 100; set 10000 for the full catalog). |

Example: every linting-related package, most recently updated first:

```json
{ "searchQuery": "lint", "sortBy": "updated", "maxItems": 200 }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "name": "SublimeLinter",
  "description": "Interactive code linting framework for Sublime Text 3",
  "authors": ["SublimeLinter"],
  "homepage": "https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter",
  "labels": ["linting"],
  "readme": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter/master/README.md",
  "issues": "https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter/issues",
  "donate": null,
  "previousNames": [],
  "version": "4.26.1",
  "updatedAt": "2025-01-15 12:00:00",
  "downloadUrl": "https://codeload.github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter/zip/v4.26.1",
  "platforms": ["*"],
  "sublimeText": [">=4000"],
  "releaseCount": 12,
  "repositoryUrl": "https://packagecontrol.io/repository.json",
  "packageControlUrl": "https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SublimeLinter",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T11:30:00+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 (a full-catalog run uses well under $0.01). Pay-per-result pricing may be added later, with advance notice as Apify requires.

### FAQ

**Is it legal?** The Actor reads only the public, unauthenticated Package Control channel file (`channel_v3.json`) that every Sublime Text Package Control client downloads. It collects no personal data beyond the public author names listed in each package's channel entry.

**How fresh is the data?** Fetched live on every run. Package Control regenerates the channel regularly. Schedule the Actor to build a history.

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

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Filter by name, description, author, homepage or label (case-insensitive). Empty = full catalog.

## `label` (type: `string`):

Keep only packages whose Package Control labels contain this text (e.g. linting, git, theme).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of results in the dataset.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum packages to output. Set 10000 for the full catalog.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sortBy": "updated",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchQuery": "",
    "label": "",
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchQuery": "",
    "label": "",
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQuery": "",
  "label": "",
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,confidential_marina/sublime-packages-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/mLqVU0USvlIkKBCvT/builds/bSXuFwpXo9JUXsoRi/openapi.json