CocoaPods Scraper

Extract detailed metadata for CocoaPods packages — including summary, description, platforms, Swift version support, dependencies, authors, and source URLs.

What is CocoaPods Scraper?

CocoaPods is the dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects on Apple platforms. It hosts tens of thousands of open-source libraries for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS. This actor lets you search the CocoaPods registry by name and retrieve full podspec metadata for any pod.

Features

• Search Pods: Find pods by name (substring match against full registry)
• Get By Name: Retrieve complete metadata for specific pods by name
• Full Podspec Metadata: Version, platforms, dependencies, authors, Swift version support, and source/repository URLs
• No auth required: Uses the public CocoaPods trunk API
• Handles all license formats: String and dict-style license fields

Use Cases

• Audit iOS/macOS dependency ecosystems
• Research popular CocoaPod libraries for specific platforms
• Track Swift version compatibility across packages
• Monitor dependencies for security or licensing compliance
• Build package discovery tools for mobile developers

Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
mode	Select	searchPods or getByName	searchPods
searchQuery	String	Filter pods by name (case-insensitive substring)	networking
podNames	Array	Pod names for getByName mode	["Alamofire", "Moya"]
maxItems	Integer	Maximum records to return (1–500)	50

Input Example — Search Pods

{
  "mode": "searchPods",
  "searchQuery": "networking",
  "maxItems": 20
}

Input Example — Get By Name

{
  "mode": "getByName",
  "podNames": ["Alamofire", "Moya", "Kingfisher", "RxSwift"]
}

Output

{
  "podName": "Alamofire",
  "summary": "Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire",
  "license": "MIT",
  "authors": ["Alamofire Software Foundation"],
  "platforms": {
    "ios": "10.0",
    "osx": "10.12",
    "tvos": "10.0",
    "visionos": "1.0",
    "watchos": "3.0"
  },
  "version": "5.11.2",
  "sourceUrl": "https://cocoapods.org/pods/Alamofire",
  "repositoryUrl": "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire.git",
  "downloadUrl": "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire.git#5.11.2",
  "swiftVersions": ["5"],
  "recordType": "pod",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-30T07:51:06.235383+00:00"
}

Output Fields

Field	Type	Description
podName	String	Pod name
summary	String	One-line description
description	String	Full description (if provided)
homepage	String	Project homepage URL
license	String	License identifier (e.g. MIT, Apache-2.0)
authors	Array	List of author names
platforms	Object	Supported platforms with minimum version (e.g. {"ios": "12.0"})
version	String	Latest published version
sourceUrl	String	CocoaPods.org page URL
repositoryUrl	String	Git repository URL
downloadUrl	String	Git repository URL with version tag
swiftVersions	Array	Supported Swift versions
dependencies	Array	Names of declared dependencies
recordType	String	Always "pod"
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp

FAQs

Does this require an API key? No. The CocoaPods trunk API and CDN are completely public.

How many pods can I search? The CocoaPods registry contains 90,000+ pods. Use maxItems to control how many you retrieve (up to 500).

What does searchQuery match against? It performs a case-insensitive substring match against pod names from the full registry list.

What platforms are supported? CocoaPods supports iOS, macOS (osx), tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS. The platforms field shows the minimum version for each supported platform.

Why might some fields be missing? Fields are only included when the pod's podspec actually declares them. For example, older pods may not declare swiftVersions or description.

How current is the data? The actor fetches live data from the CocoaPods trunk API and CDN which are updated when pod authors publish new versions.

Can I get all pods? Yes — leave searchQuery empty to get the first maxItems pods from the registry alphabetically.