CTAN TeX Packages Scraper
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CTAN TeX Packages Scraper
Scan the CTAN catalog of TeX packages with optional keyword filter and detail hydration. Records carry key, name, caption, license, version, version date, authors, copyright, descriptions, topics, install info, homepage, and documentation. Useful for TeX research and writing tooling.
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📚 CTAN TeX Packages Scraper
🚀 Export the full CTAN catalog of TeX and LaTeX packages in seconds. Caption, authors, license, version, topics, and install paths.
The CTAN TeX Packages Scraper turns the public ctan.org/json/2.0/packages index into a structured dataset. It lists every package and optionally hydrates each entry with the per-package detail endpoint so you get authors, license, version, and topic metadata in one shot.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 🎓 Academic publishers | Audit which packages typesetters use |
| 📚 Documentation teams | Find a package for a given task |
| 🛡️ Compliance | License audits across TeX distributions |
| 📊 Researchers | Study TeX ecosystem trends |
| 👩💻 Maintainers | Mirror CTAN metadata into your tools |
| 🧪 Curious users | Browse the LaTeX universe |
📋 What the CTAN TeX Packages Scraper does
- Fetches the canonical
https://ctan.org/json/2.0/packagesindex. - Optionally hydrates each package with
/json/2.0/pkg/{key}for full details. - Flattens author records to display-name strings.
- Filters by substring search against key, name, or caption.
- Surfaces upstream errors as a single diagnostic record.
- Exports to every Apify dataset format.
💡 Why it matters: CTAN is the canonical TeX archive but its detail endpoint is one-request-per-package. This actor pipelines those calls so you get a SQL-ready table out the other side.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: authors, caption, ctan, key, license, name, results, scrapedAt, topics, version. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know: Hydration costs one HTTP request per package. Disable it for fast catalog snapshots.
🚀 How to use
- Click Try for free.
- Optionally set a search filter.
- Toggle
hydratefor full detail. - Click Start and download the dataset.
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Disclaimer. This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CTAN. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
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