🟦 Quay.io Tags Scraper

🚀 Export public Quay.io tag metadata in seconds. Digest, size, expiration, revision, and manifest-list flag.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 13 fields per record · Any public repo · No login required

The Quay.io Tags Scraper turns the public quay.io/api/v1/repository/{namespace}/{name}/tag/ endpoint into a structured dataset. It paginates every tag of a public repository, captures expiration and reversion flags, and lets you target a single tag for surgical lookups.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🛡️ Container security teams	Track which tags are expiring
🚀 Platform engineers	Compare digests across promotions
🏗️ Release managers	Audit Red Hat ecosystem image cadence
📊 Compliance	Snapshot the registry state for audits
🧪 Researchers	Study tag-promotion patterns
👩‍💻 Developers	Find a specific tag for a dependency

📋 What the Quay.io Tags Scraper does

• Paginates the public quay.io/api/v1/repository/{repo}/tag/ endpoint.
• Captures expiration timestamps, reversion flags, and manifest-list booleans.
• Lets you target a single tag with specificTag for fast lookups.
• Filters out expired/hidden tags by default.
• Pushes a clean diagnostic record if the upstream rejects the request.
• Exports to every Apify dataset format.

💡 Why it matters: Quay's tag endpoint exposes promotion and expiration metadata that Docker Hub doesn't. Mirroring it lets you build dashboards around image-lifecycle policy.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
repository	string	No	`namespace/name`. Default `coreos/etcd`.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10. Paid up to 1,000,000.
onlyActiveTags	boolean	No	Exclude expired/hidden tags. Default true.
specificTag	string	No	Exact tag name. Skips pagination.

Example 1. All active etcd tags.

{ "repository": "coreos/etcd", "maxItems": 50 }

Example 2. Exact tag lookup.

{ "repository": "prometheus/prometheus", "specificTag": "v2.50.0" }

⚠️ Good to Know: Quay's public endpoint paginates 100 tags at a time and respects the onlyActiveTags flag.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📦 repository	string	Repository slug.
🏷️ name	string	Tag name.
🔐 manifestDigest	string	Manifest digest.
💾 size	number	Compressed image size in bytes.
🕒 lastModified	string	Human-readable last modified.
🕓 startTs	number	Tag start unix timestamp.
⏳ endTs	number	Tag end unix timestamp where set.
⏰ expiration	string	Expiration timestamp where set.
🆔 dockerImageId	string	Internal docker image id.
🔁 reversion	boolean	Whether the tag is a reversion.
🗂️ isManifestList	boolean	True for multi-arch manifest lists.
✅ isCurrent	boolean	True when the tag has no end timestamp.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set on upstream error.

{
  "repository": "coreos/etcd",
  "name": "v3.5.13",
  "manifestDigest": "sha256:abc...",
  "size": 18234112,
  "lastModified": "Tue, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0000",
  "isCurrent": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public endpoint, no token required for public repos. | | ⏳ | Captures expiration and reversion metadata Docker Hub doesn't expose. | | 🎯 | Surgical specificTag lookups. | | 🛟 | Clean diagnostic records on upstream errors. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Expiration metadata	Filters	Auto export
skopeo list-tags	install + script	❌	❌	❌
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	manual	manual	manual
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set repository to namespace/name.
3. Optionally pin a specific tag.
4. Click Start and download the dataset.

💼 Business use cases

🛡️ Image-lifecycle policy. Build a dashboard of tags expiring in the next 30 days.

🚀 Promotion audits. Snapshot the registry state before and after a release.

📊 Capacity planning. Track size growth across tag versions.

🏗️ Multi-registry parity. Compare Quay tags to Docker Hub for the same project.

🔌 Automating Quay.io Tags 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 registry shapes.

🧪 Personal research. Track the Red Hat ecosystem.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Publish a registry health dashboard.

🧰 Tinkering. Quick tag lookups during dev.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need a Quay account? No.

❓ Private repos? Not currently. Public endpoint only.

❓ How fresh? Live every run.

❓ Schedule runs? Yes.

❓ API or scraping? API.

❓ Rate limits? Anonymous calls are throttled per IP.

❓ Schema stability? Core fields are stable.

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

❓ Multi-arch? isManifestList flags multi-arch tags.

❓ Download formats? Any Apify dataset format.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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