🎯 pub.dev Package Scoring Scraper

🚀 Export pub.dev (Dart and Flutter) package scoring data in seconds. Pub points, popularity, likes, and derived tags.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 13 fields per record · 50,000+ Dart and Flutter packages · No login required

The pub.dev Package Scoring Scraper turns the public pub.dev/api/packages/{name}/score and /api/packages/{name} endpoints into a structured dataset. It iterates an explicit list, a search query, or the global index, and joins each package's score with its latest manifest.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📱 Flutter app teams	Vet new dependencies against pub points
🛡️ Security teams	Find low-scoring or unmaintained packages
📊 Ecosystem researchers	Track Dart package health over time
🚀 DevRel	Build pub.dev discovery dashboards
🧪 Package authors	Benchmark your scores against competitors
👩‍💻 Developers	Pick the best package for a job

📋 What the pub.dev Package Scoring Scraper does

• Iterates an explicit package list, a /api/search query, or the global /api/packages index.
• Joins each package's /score endpoint with the latest pubspec metadata.
• Filters by minimum popularity score.
• Surfaces derived tags such as platform:android, runtime:web, and sdk:flutter.
• Pushes a clean diagnostic record on upstream errors.
• Exports to every Apify dataset format.

💡 Why it matters: Pub.dev's scoring data is the canonical proxy for Dart package health. Mirroring it gives you SQL-friendly insight into the entire ecosystem.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10. Paid up to 1,000,000.
packages	array	No	Explicit list of package names.
searchQuery	string	No	Forwarded to `/api/search`.
minPopularity	integer	No	0 to 100. Drop packages below this score.

Example 1. Score a fixed shortlist.

{ "packages": ["http", "provider", "dio"] }

Example 2. Top firebase packages.

{ "searchQuery": "firebase", "minPopularity": 80, "maxItems": 25 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Each record costs two HTTP calls (score plus manifest). Plan accordingly for very large runs.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📦 package	string	Package name.
🏅 grantedPoints	number	Pub points awarded.
🎯 maxPoints	number	Maximum possible pub points.
❤️ likeCount	number	Like count on pub.dev.
📈 popularityScore	number	Popularity score 0 to 1.
🏷️ tags	array	Static tags.
🏷️ derivedTags	array	Derived platform and SDK tags.
🕒 lastUpdated	string	When the score was last refreshed.
🔢 latestVersion	string	Latest published version.
📝 description	string	Latest pubspec description.
🔗 homepage	string	Project homepage.
🔗 repository	string	Source repository URL.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set on upstream error.

{
  "package": "http",
  "grantedPoints": 140,
  "maxPoints": 140,
  "likeCount": 6210,
  "popularityScore": 1.0,
  "tags": ["sdk:dart", "sdk:flutter"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public pub.dev endpoint, no key required. | | 🎯 | Joins score plus manifest in one row. | | 🔎 | Search-query, explicit-list, or full-index modes. | | 🛟 | Clean diagnostic records on errors. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Joined score	Filters	Auto export
dart pub CLI	install + script	❌	❌	❌
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	manual	manual	manual
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Provide explicit packages, a search query, or leave empty for the global index.
3. Optionally set minPopularity.
4. Click Start and download the dataset.

💼 Business use cases

🛡️ Dependency vetting. Block low-pub-points or low-popularity packages in code review.

📱 App health audits. Snapshot scores for every dep in your pubspec.lock.

📊 Ecosystem analytics. Track how Dart and Flutter package health evolves.

🚀 Internal package picker. Drive an internal UI with live data.

🔌 Automating pub.dev Package Scoring Scraper

• Make and Zapier trigger this actor on a schedule.
• Cron keeps your mirror fresh.
• Webhooks notify on completion.
• Pipe to BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres with native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Show students real package-ranking metrics.

🧪 Personal research. Track your favorite package's standing.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Publish an ecosystem dashboard.

🧰 Tinkering. Discover new packages.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Need an API key? No.

❓ Source? The public pub.dev API.

❓ Schedule runs? Yes.

❓ Rate limits? Light per-IP throttle.

❓ API or scraping? API.

❓ Schema stability? Stable.

❓ Maximum run? 1,000,000 records on paid plans.

❓ How is popularity scored? Pub.dev returns a 0 to 1 float; we round to two decimals.

❓ Derived tags? Yes, captured as derivedTags.

❓ Download formats? Any Apify dataset format.

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