npm Package Stats Scraper — Downloads & Trends
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 npm packages
npm Package Stats Scraper — Downloads & Trends
Get npm package downloads, metadata, versions, keywords, maintainers, repositories, and trending/search results. Useful for developer-tool research, market intelligence, dependency analysis, and package popularity tracking.
Extract clean, structured JSON from npm Registry + npm downloads API. This Actor is built for developer tool research, dependency analysis, package popularity tracking, market intelligence.
What you can do with it
- Developer tool research
- Dependency analysis
- Package popularity tracking
- Market intelligence
Features
- Download counts by package and period
- Search npm packages by keyword
- Package metadata: versions, keywords, maintainers, repo
- No browser needed — fast and cheap
Example input
{"mode": "package_stats","packages": "react,next,vue,vite","period": "last-week"}
Example output
{"name": "react","downloads": 12345678,"period": "last-week","latestVersion": "19.0.0","description": "React is a JavaScript library","repository": "git+https://github.com/facebook/react.git"}
Output
Results are saved to the default Apify dataset as structured JSON. The actor includes an output schema so results are easy to preview, export, and consume from API clients.
Pricing
This Actor is configured for pay-per-result monetization using Apify's pay-per-event model. Users pay for dataset items/results rather than a large fixed upfront fee.
Common use cases
- AI/RAG dataset creation
- Market research and competitive intelligence
- Trend monitoring
- Data enrichment pipelines
- Scheduled data extraction
Keywords
npm downloads API, npm package scraper, package stats, JavaScript package trends, developer intelligence
Notes
This Actor focuses on practical structured data extraction with clean defaults and low overhead. For large runs, start with a small maxItems value, verify the output, then scale up.