☕ Maven Central Repository Scraper

🚀 Export Java and JVM packages from Maven Central in seconds. Search by keyword, filter by groupId, and download artifact metadata - groupId, artifactId, version, packaging, version history, and timestamps - without touching a browser or writing a single parser.

The Maven Central Scraper queries the official Maven Central Solr search API and returns structured metadata for every matching Java and JVM package. Each record includes the full Maven coordinates (groupId, artifactId, latestVersion), packaging type, version count, repository origin, and last-updated timestamp.

Maven Central is the primary public repository for JVM ecosystem packages - the definitive source for Spring, Jackson, Hibernate, Guava, Apache Commons, and hundreds of thousands of other open-source libraries. This Actor makes the entire catalog searchable and downloadable as JSON, CSV, or Excel without any setup.

📋 What the Maven Central Scraper does

Five search workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Keyword search. Find all packages matching a library name, technology, or concept (e.g. spring, jackson, logging, kafka).
• 🏷 GroupId filter. Restrict to a specific Maven group like org.springframework, com.fasterxml.jackson, or org.apache.commons.
• 🔀 Combined search. Search by keyword within a specific groupId for targeted results.
• 📦 Full catalog browse. Leave both fields empty to iterate through Maven Central's entire public artifact index.
• 📊 Version history. Every record includes versionCount - the total number of published versions for that artifact.

Each record includes Maven coordinates, latest version, packaging type (jar, pom, bundle, aar), version count, repository ID, and the ISO timestamp of the last published version.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: artifactId, groupId, lastUpdated, latestVersion, packaging, repositoryId, results, scrapedAt, url, versionCount. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit on Apify.
2. Open the Maven Central Scraper Actor page.
3. Enter a searchQuery (e.g. spring) or groupId (e.g. org.springframework).
4. Set maxItems - free plan gives 10, paid plan up to 1,000,000.
5. Click Run and wait a few seconds.
6. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

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This Actor queries Maven Central's public search API. All data is publicly available at search.maven.org. This tool is intended for lawful research, analysis, and development purposes only.

🆘 Need Help?

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