# Zed Extensions Scraper — Themes, LSP & MCP (`confidential_marina/zed-extensions-scraper`) Actor

Zed extensions dataset: export ~1,600 Zed editor extensions (themes, language servers, MCP context servers, agent servers) with download counts, versions and repos. Fast JSON API alternative.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/confidential_marina/zed-extensions-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Kaleb Holley](https://apify.com/confidential_marina) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Open source, AI
- **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

## Zed Extensions Scraper — Themes, LSP & MCP Dataset

Export the **entire [Zed](https://zed.dev) 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:

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

### Sample output (from a real run)

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

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

Optional keyword matched by Zed against extension id/name/description (e.g. "python", "theme", "mcp"). Leave empty for the whole catalog.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Only return extensions that provide at least one of these capabilities. Empty = all types (full Zed extensions dataset).

## `minDownloads` (type: `integer`):

Skip extensions with fewer downloads.

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

Order of results in the dataset.

## `includeVersionHistory` (type: `boolean`):

One extra request per extension: adds total version count, first-published date and the list of past versions. Leave off for a fast default run.

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

Maximum number of extensions to output. Default 50 finishes in seconds; set 2000 for the full catalog.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [],
  "minDownloads": 0,
  "sortBy": "downloads",
  "includeVersionHistory": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Zed editor extensions dataset (JSON array).

# 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": "",
    "categories": [],
    "minDownloads": 0,
    "sortBy": "downloads",
    "includeVersionHistory": false,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("confidential_marina/zed-extensions-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": "",
    "categories": [],
    "minDownloads": 0,
    "sortBy": "downloads",
    "includeVersionHistory": False,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("confidential_marina/zed-extensions-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": "",
  "categories": [],
  "minDownloads": 0,
  "sortBy": "downloads",
  "includeVersionHistory": false,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call confidential_marina/zed-extensions-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,confidential_marina/zed-extensions-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/OyNSF5jwYgPHVBZae/builds/ch33zFNY3I4xnr7PO/openapi.json