F-Droid App Catalog Scraper
Pricing
from $0.35 / 1,000 app scrapeds
Returns open-source Android app metadata from F-Droid: package ID, license, categories, author, source and issue links, version, anti-features, icon and APK URL. Filter by keyword, package ID or category. $0.0005 per app returned (about $0.05 per 100 apps), no API key.
You can access the F-Droid App Catalog Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "query": "messaging",10 "packageIds": [],11 "categories": [],12 "maxItems": 100,13}14
15# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish16run = client.actor("datamule/f-droid-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)17
18# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)19print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")20for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():21 print(item)22
23# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use F-Droid App Catalog Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: