Flathub Linux Apps Scraper 🐧📦

Scrape structured metadata for Linux apps on Flathub — the largest Flatpak app store. Get each app's name, summary, full description, developer, categories, license and homepage as clean JSON. No API key, no login, datacenter-proxy friendly.

Use it to build Linux software catalogs, run app-market research, monitor the Flatpak ecosystem, or feed a recommendation/analytics pipeline.

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What it does

Give the actor a list of app ids, ask for the most popular apps, or run a search query — it resolves everything to full app detail records from the official Flathub API.

Modes

Mode	Input	Result
apps	appIds list (e.g. org.mozilla.firefox)	Full detail for each id
popular	maxItems	Top / most-installed apps on Flathub
search	query (e.g. video editor)	Detail for every matching app

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Output

One dataset item per app. Every field is nullable.

{
  "id": "org.mozilla.firefox",
  "name": "Firefox",
  "summary": "Fast, Private & Safe Web Browser",
  "description": "When it comes to your life online, you have a choice...",
  "developer": "Mozilla",
  "categories": ["Network", "WebBrowser"],
  "license": "MPL-2.0",
  "homepage": "https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/",
  "url": "https://flathub.org/apps/org.mozilla.firefox",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T10:00:00+00:00"
}

Field	Description
id	Flathub application id (reverse-DNS, e.g. org.gimp.GIMP)
name	Display name
summary	Short one-line summary
description	Full description, HTML stripped, capped at 3000 chars
developer	Developer / publisher name
categories	List of category tags
license	SPDX project license
homepage	Project homepage URL
url	Flathub app page URL
scraped_at	ISO-8601 UTC scrape timestamp

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Input example

{
  "mode": "apps",
  "appIds": ["org.mozilla.firefox", "com.spotify.Client"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Popular apps:

{ "mode": "popular", "maxItems": 50 }

Search:

{ "mode": "search", "query": "video editor", "maxItems": 50 }

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Pricing

Pay-per-result: roughly ~$1 per 1,000 apps scraped, plus standard Apify platform usage. Runs on 512 MB and finishes fast because it hits a clean JSON API.

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Use cases

• Linux app market research — track categories, developers and licenses across the Flatpak ecosystem.
• Developer & catalog tooling — build software directories, package browsers or internal app catalogs.
• Analytics — snapshot popular apps over time to spot trends and new releases.
• License / compliance audits — collect project licenses across a set of apps.

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How it compares

Instead of hand-parsing the Flathub website or wrangling the Appstream API and its nested XML/JSON, this actor gives you flat, ready-to-use records with HTML already stripped and a stable schema you can push straight into a sheet, database or dashboard.

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Related actors

• Firefox Add-ons Scraper
• Google Play Scraper
• App Store Scraper
• AUR Scraper

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Keywords: flathub scraper, flatpak scraper, linux apps scraper, linux software catalog, appstream api, open source apps, flathub api, linux app store data, developer tools scraper, app metadata.