NuGet Scraper - .NET Packages & Downloads

Search NuGet or look up .NET packages by id and get clean rows: total downloads, latest version, authors, owners, tags, verified flag, package types, version count and project / license / icon URLs. Built on the official NuGet search API - no API key, no browser, no proxy. Run one search or import a file of package ids.

What you get per package

Field	Meaning
id / version / title	Package id, latest version and display title
description / summary	Full description and (legacy) summary
totalDownloads / verified	Total downloads and the verified-owner flag
authors / owners	Author and owner lists
tags / packageTypes	Search tags and package types (Dependency, Template, ...)
projectUrl / licenseUrl / iconUrl	Project, license and icon URLs
versionCount / registrationUrl / packageUrl	Number of versions, registration index and the nuget.org page

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["logging", "json"], "maxItemsPerQuery": 50 }

• Search terms - one per line (e.g. json, logging, orm).
• Package ids - fetch exact packages (e.g. Newtonsoft.Json, Serilog).
• Include prerelease - set prerelease to include beta / rc packages.
• 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 NuGet SearchQueryService with automatic failover between its two hosts - no key, no proxy, no anti-bot. A search that returns nothing, an unknown package id, or an import that cannot be read bills $0 and says why.

Honest limits

• summary is a legacy field - modern packages fill description and leave summary empty; an honest null/empty when the publisher set none (probed 2026-08-15). description is populated on essentially every package.
• totalDownloads is NuGet's own aggregate across all versions of the package.
• Results are relevance-ranked by NuGet - the search service orders by its own relevance, not a caller-chosen sort.

Pricing

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

Output views

• Packages - id, version, description, total downloads, verified flag and project URL.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can find the most-downloaded .NET library for a task, check whether a package is owner-verified, or enrich a list of package ids with versions and project links 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.