Docker Hub Scraper - Container Images & Pulls

Search Docker Hub or look up repositories by name and get clean rows: stars, pull counts, official flag, short and full descriptions, last-updated / last-modified / registered dates, repository type and (optionally) version tags. Built on the official public Docker Hub API - no API key, no browser, no proxy. Run one search or import a file of image names.

What you get per repository

Field	Meaning
fullName / name / namespace	namespace/name, and its parts (official images use library)
description / fullDescription	Short tagline and the full README
starCount / pullCount	Stars and total pulls
isOfficial / isAutomated / isPrivate	Official Docker image, automated build, private flags
repositoryType / status	Image type and active/inactive status
lastUpdated / lastModified / dateRegistered	Update and registration timestamps
tags	Version tag names (when includeTags is on)
hubUser / collaboratorCount / repoUrl	Owning hub user, collaborator count and the page URL

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["postgres", "redis"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 50 }

• Search terms - one per line (e.g. nginx, postgres, redis).
• Repositories - fetch exact images: name for official (nginx) or namespace/name (grafana/grafana).
• Include version tags - set includeTags to also collect each image's tag names (maxTags caps how many).
• Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public .txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record.
• Output fields - trim every record to exactly the columns you need.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the official public Docker Hub API with automatic backoff on rate limits - no key, no proxy, no anti-bot. A search that returns nothing, an unknown repository, or an import that cannot be read bills $0 and says why.

Honest limits

• tags is opt-in - null unless includeTags is true (off by default so a run does not fire an extra tags request per repository).
• description / fullDescription are publisher-optional - many user and auto-built images file no short description or README; an honest null when the source has none (probed 2026-08-15).
• affiliation is effectively always null - Docker Hub returns null for it on virtually every repository; kept for completeness, it is the source value.
• pullCount is Docker Hub's own reported total; official images report enormous cumulative counts.

Pricing

$0.001 per repository on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only repositories actually saved are billed; empty searches, unknown names and unreadable imports cost nothing.

Output views

• Repositories - full name, description, stars, pulls, official flag and last-updated date.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can find the most-pulled image for a stack, compare stars across alternatives, or enrich a list of image names with pull counts and update dates in one call.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.