# Swift Package Index Scraper (`parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper`) Actor

Search the Swift Package Index by keyword or platform for open source Swift packages. Each package returns the name, owner, repository, stars, supported platforms, Swift versions, license, last activity, and score. Useful for dependency research and tracking the Swift ecosystem.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $19.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

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## 🦅 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

<table>
<tr><th>Field</th><th>Type</th><th>Required</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td><code>maxItems</code></td><td>integer</td><td>No</td><td>Free 10. Paid up to 1,000,000.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>searchQuery</code></td><td>string</td><td>No</td><td>Forwarded to the SPI search endpoint.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>platformFilter</code></td><td>enum</td><td>No</td><td>Keep only packages supporting the chosen platform.</td></tr>
</table>

**Example 1. Search Alamofire family.**
```json
{ "searchQuery": "alamofire", "maxItems": 25 }
````

**Example 2. iOS-only networking packages.**

```json
{ "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. |

```json
{
  "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.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your specific workflow to the actor's inputs.

### ❓ 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.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

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|---|---|
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| [ParseForge Vcpkg Ports Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge) | C and C++ ports. |
| [ParseForge SPDX Licenses Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge) | License metadata. |
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> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900+ production-grade scrapers.

***

**Disclaimer.** This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Swift Package Index project. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

# Actor input Schema

## `feed` (type: `string`):

Which Swift Package Index feed to collect.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

Optional. Keep only items whose title or description contains this keyword (e.g. networking, ai, testing).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: optional, max 1,000,000.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "feed": "packages",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/swift-package-index-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Swift Package Index Scraper",
        "description": "Search the Swift Package Index by keyword or platform for open source Swift packages. Each package returns the name, owner, repository, stars, supported platforms, Swift versions, license, last activity, and score. Useful for dependency research and tracking the Swift ecosystem.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "hrFmbe9Uee24Ca0fM"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/parseforge~swift-package-index-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-swift-package-index-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~swift-package-index-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-swift-package-index-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~swift-package-index-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-swift-package-index-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "feed": {
                        "title": "Feed",
                        "enum": [
                            "packages",
                            "releases"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Which Swift Package Index feed to collect.",
                        "default": "packages"
                    },
                    "searchQuery": {
                        "title": "Keyword filter",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional. Keep only items whose title or description contains this keyword (e.g. networking, ai, testing)."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users: limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: optional, max 1,000,000."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "number",
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                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```