NPM & PyPI Package Maintainer Email, Download & Supply-Chain Intelligence (MCP Ready)

NPM & PyPI Package Scraper | Maintainer Emails & Download Stats — DevTools & Supply-Chain intelligence Actor: extracts NPM and PyPI package download volume, maintainer direct email addresses, license compliance, dependency counts, and release freshness.

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🚀 Why Choose This Actor?

1. Ultra-Low Compute Cost (No Headless Browser Overhead): Built on a high-efficiency HTTP & structured-data parsing engine instead of heavy Chromium instances. Runs 10x faster and consumes minimal Apify platform RAM/CPU.
2. Transparent Pay-Per-Event Pricing: You only pay for actual results delivered (package-enriched), never for wasted idle time.
3. 100% MCP & AI Agent Ready: Designed with strict JSON schemas so Claude Desktop, Cursor, OpenAI Agents, LangChain, n8n, Make.com, Zapier, and Clay can call this Actor autonomously as a tool.
4. Clean, Structured Export: Download results in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS directly from the Apify dataset tab or via REST API.

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🎯 Target Industries & High-ROI Use Cases

• DevTools & Developer Infrastructure Marketing
• Software Supply-Chain Security & SBOM Auditing
• Open-Source Sponsorship & Acquisition Scouts
• Engineering Governance Teams

Popular Workflows

• Automated B2B Prospecting & Enrichment: Feed a list of targets from Clay, HubSpot, Salesforce, or Google Sheets and enrich every record automatically.
• Autonomous AI Agent Tooling (MCP): Connect this Actor to Claude or Cursor via the official @apify/actors-mcp-server so your AI assistant can gather real-time live web intelligence on demand.
• Scheduled Monitoring: Schedule recurring runs (daily/weekly) on Apify and push fresh intelligence to Slack, Webhook, Email, or PostgreSQL/Supabase.

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📥 Input Parameters Example

{
  "npmPackages": [
    "crawlee",
    "cheerio"
  ],
  "pypiPackages": [
    "fastapi"
  ]
}

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📤 Output Dataset Sample

Each extracted record is pushed to the default Apify Dataset in clean JSON format:

{
  "ecosystem": "npm",
  "packageName": "crawlee",
  "latestVersion": "3.11.0",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "monthlyDownloads": 425000,
  "maintainerEmails": [
    "maintainer@example.com"
  ],
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/apify/crawlee"
}

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🤖 How to Use with AI Agents (Claude / Cursor MCP) & Automation

1. Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Add this Actor to your claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor MCP settings using the Apify MCP Server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
        "--actors",
        "lucacelli/open-source-package-maintainer-security-intel"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

2. Call via Apify REST API (cURL / n8n / Make / Clay)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lucacelli~open-source-package-maintainer-security-intel/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"npmPackages":["crawlee","cheerio"],"pypiPackages":["fastapi"]}'

3. Node.js SDK

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('lucacelli/open-source-package-maintainer-security-intel').call({"npmPackages":["crawlee","cheerio"],"pypiPackages":["fastapi"]});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Does this Actor require paid external API keys or residential proxies?

No! It works out of the box with zero external API keys required.

Can I export the data to CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets?

Yes. Every run stores structured records in an Apify Dataset that can be exported with one click to CSV, XLSX (Excel), JSON, or JSONL, or synced directly to Google Sheets via Make/Zapier/n8n.

Keywords & Tags

NPM package scraper, PyPI maintainer email finder, open source supply chain audit, DevTools developer outreach, license compliance scanner