📦 Pub.dev Flutter Package Scraper

🚀 Export Dart and Flutter package data from pub.dev with quality metrics in seconds. No API key required. No login needed.

The Pub.dev Flutter Package Scraper pulls real-time data directly from pub.dev's public API. Each record includes the package name, version, description, publisher, like count, pub points, 30-day download count, SDK constraints, topics, homepage, repository link, and publish date. The dataset is sourced live from pub.dev's official REST API - no scraping of HTML, no stale cache.

Pub.dev is the official package repository for Dart and Flutter, hosting over 50,000 packages. This actor gives you structured, machine-readable access to every package's quality metrics and metadata - ideal for ecosystem analysis, dependency auditing, SDK compatibility research, and package discovery at scale.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	What they use it for
Flutter developers	Discover top packages by topic, check SDK compatibility
DevOps / platform teams	Audit dependencies for license, quality, and pub points
Researchers	Analyze the Dart/Flutter ecosystem growth and trends
Open source maintainers	Benchmark their packages against competitors
Data engineers	Build dashboards tracking package popularity over time
Security teams	Monitor packages for version updates and publisher changes

📋 What the Pub.dev Scraper does

• Searches pub.dev by keyword (e.g. "http", "state management", "firebase") or browses all packages
• Fetches package detail, score, and publisher in parallel for maximum speed
• Returns 17 structured fields per package including likes, pub points, and 30-day downloads
• Respects free/paid user tiers - free users get a 10-item preview automatically
• Handles pagination automatically to collect any volume of results

💡 Why it matters: pub.dev has no official export feature. Getting structured package data requires reverse-engineering the API or scraping HTML - this actor does that work for you, giving clean JSON/CSV/Excel output in seconds.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: description, downloadCount30Days, latestVersion, likeCount, name, popularityScore, publishedAt, publisher, pubPoints, results, scrapedAt, topics, url. 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 Apify account (includes $5 credit)
2. Open the Pub.dev Flutter Package Scraper actor
3. Set searchQuery to a keyword or leave empty for top packages
4. Set maxItems to the number of packages you want
5. Click Start and wait for results (typically seconds)
6. Download your dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML

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Disclaimer: This actor uses pub.dev's public REST API in accordance with their terms of service. All data is publicly available without authentication. ParseForge is not affiliated with pub.dev, the Dart team, or Google. Use this data responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws.

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