🦅 Swift Package Index Scraper

🚀 Export Swift Package Index search results in seconds. Owner, repo, stars, supported platforms, Swift versions, and license.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 12 fields per record · 6,000+ Swift packages · No login required

The Swift Package Index Scraper turns the public swiftpackageindex.com/api/search endpoint into a structured dataset. It paginates a search query and flattens each result's owner, repo, platforms, Swift versions, and license.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
🍎 iOS and macOS app teams	Vet dependencies before adoption
🛡️ Security teams	Audit licenses and platform support
📊 Ecosystem researchers	Track Swift package adoption
🚀 DevRel	Build Swift package discovery dashboards
🧪 Package authors	Benchmark popularity
👩‍💻 Developers	Discover packages by topic

📋 What the Swift Package Index Scraper does

• Paginates the public search endpoint until the result count or maxItems is hit.
• Reshapes each hit into a flat record with owner, repository URL, stars, platforms, Swift versions, and license.
• Filters by supported platform.
• Pushes a clean diagnostic record on upstream errors.
• Exports to every Apify dataset format.

💡 Why it matters: Swift Package Index is the canonical front door for the Swift ecosystem. Mirroring its search makes it queryable by SQL or BI tools.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10. Paid up to 1,000,000.
searchQuery	string	No	Forwarded to the SPI search endpoint.
platformFilter	enum	No	Keep only packages supporting the chosen platform.

Example 1. Search Alamofire family.

{ "searchQuery": "alamofire", "maxItems": 25 }

Example 2. iOS-only networking packages.

{ "searchQuery": "networking", "platformFilter": "ios" }

⚠️ Good to Know: The SPI search endpoint paginates lightly; deep pagination may be capped upstream.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
📦 name	string	Package name.
👤 owner	string	GitHub owner.
🔗 repository	string	GitHub repo URL.
📝 description	string	Package summary.
⭐ stars	number	GitHub stars.
🧩 platforms	array	Supported platforms.
🦅 swiftVersions	array	Supported Swift versions.
⚖️ license	string	SPDX license short id.
🕒 lastActivity	string	Latest commit or release timestamp.
🏅 score	number	SPI relevance score.
🆔 packageId	string	SPI internal id.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	When this row was fetched.
❌ error	string	Set on upstream error.

{
  "name": "Alamofire",
  "owner": "Alamofire",
  "repository": "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire",
  "stars": 40512,
  "platforms": ["ios", "macos", "tvos", "watchos"],
  "license": "MIT",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public SPI endpoint, no key required. | | 🧩 | Platform filter at scrape time. | | 🔎 | Free-text search. | | 🛟 | Clean diagnostic records on errors. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Platform filter	Auto export
SPI website search	manual	manual	❌
Roll your own fetch	30 min +	manual	manual
This Actor	5 sec	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter a search query and optional platform filter.
3. Click Start and download the dataset.

💼 Business use cases

🛡️ License audits. Snapshot every package matching a topic and its license.

📱 App dependency planning. Compare candidate packages side by side.

📊 Ecosystem analytics. Track Swift package counts over time.

🚀 Internal discovery. Drive an internal package picker.

🔌 Automating Swift Package Index 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 how the Swift ecosystem is structured.

🧪 Personal research. Track your favorite topic.

🤝 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? Swift Package Index public search.

❓ 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.

❓ Platform filtering? Yes, at scrape time.

❓ Stars data? Yes, taken from SPI.

❓ 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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