Zed Extensions Scraper — Themes, LSP & MCP Dataset

Export the entire Zed editor extension marketplace (~1,600 extensions) as a clean Zed extensions dataset: themes, language support, language servers (LSP), MCP context servers, agent servers, debug adapters, snippets and more — with download counts, versions, authors, repositories and optional version history.

Zed is one of the fastest-growing AI-native code editors, and its marketplace has no other scraper on Apify Store. Use this Actor as a Zed extensions API alternative when you need structured JSON/CSV for research, directories or monitoring.

Why this scraper

• Full catalog. Queries every capability bucket and merges results past the API's 1,000-row cap.
• Filter by type. MCP context servers only, themes only, language servers only, etc.
• Keyword search using the same search as the Zed extension panel.
• Version history (optional): version count, first-published date and every past release.
• Fast. Pure JSON API — no browser, no proxy, no login. Default run (~50 rows) finishes in seconds on 256 MB.

Use cases

• Dev-tools and AI-editor market research
• Lead lists of extension authors and open-source repositories
• Tracking new MCP context servers and agent servers in Zed
• Extension publishers benchmarking downloads against competitors
• Scheduled daily snapshots to chart download growth

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchQuery	string	Optional keyword (e.g. python, mcp). Empty = whole catalog.
categories	array	themes, icon-themes, languages, grammars, language-servers, context-servers, agent-servers, debug-adapters, snippets, slash-commands. Empty = all.
minDownloads	integer	Skip extensions below this download count.
sortBy	downloads / published / name	Result order.
includeVersionHistory	boolean	Adds versionCount, firstPublishedAt and versionHistory.
maxItems	integer	Max results (default 50 for a fast Try-Actor run; set 2000 for full catalog).

Example — every MCP context server, newest first:

{ "categories": ["context-servers"], "sortBy": "published", "maxItems": 500 }

Sample output (from a real run)

{
  "id": "html",
  "name": "HTML",
  "description": "HTML support.",
  "version": "0.3.2",
  "downloadCount": 7406482,
  "provides": ["grammars", "language-servers", "languages"],
  "authors": ["Isaac Clayton"],
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed",
  "isOfficial": true,
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-17T11:23:02Z",
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "wasmApiVersion": "0.7.0",
  "extensionUrl": "https://zed.dev/extensions?query=html",
  "installCommand": "zed: install extension -> html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T04:26:43+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 default 50-row run costs well under $0.01). Pay-per-event pricing may apply depending on the Store listing; volume runs stay cheap because the Actor is API-only.

FAQ

Is it legal? Reads only public, unauthenticated catalog data that Zed itself loads (api.zed.dev/extensions), the same data at zed.dev/extensions. zed.dev's robots.txt allows crawling. No personal data beyond public author names in each extension's manifest.

How fresh is the data? Fetched live on every run. Schedule the Actor to build a history.

Keywords people search: Zed extensions scraper, Zed extensions dataset, Zed MCP context servers, Zed editor marketplace API, Zed themes downloads.

Something broken? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.