RubyGems Packages Scraper – Downloads, Versions, Authors & Repos

Get clean RubyGems package data: total downloads, latest version, authors, licenses, homepage, source-code repo and docs. Search by keyword or fetch gems by exact name. As JSON, CSV or Excel. Free, no key, no proxy.

💵 Pricing

Pay per result — ~$1 per 1,000 items (input + output). No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the gems you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for $0.

🔎 What can it extract?

• Gem name and description
• Total downloads and current-version downloads
• Latest version
• Authors and licenses
• Homepage, source-code repo and documentation links
• Canonical RubyGems URL

🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

⚙️ Input example

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "rails",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Or fetch specific gems:

{
  "mode": "gems",
  "gemNames": ["rails", "sinatra"]
}

📦 Output example (JSON)

{
  "name": "rails",
  "info": "Full-stack web framework...",
  "downloads": 700000000,
  "version": "7.1.3",
  "version_downloads": 1234567,
  "authors": "David Heinemeier Hansson",
  "licenses": ["MIT"],
  "homepage_uri": "https://rubyonrails.org",
  "source_code_uri": "https://github.com/rails/rails",
  "documentation_uri": "https://api.rubyonrails.org",
  "url": "https://rubygems.org/gems/rails"
}

🎯 Use cases

• Dependency and supply-chain analysis
• OSS popularity and download dashboards
• Package-discovery and dev-tooling features
• Enriching Ruby ecosystem datasets for AI/ML

💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost): 100 → ~$0.10 · 1,000 → ~$1 · 10,000 → ~$10

🆚 Why this one

Feature	This actor	Others
Search + exact-name lookup	✅	one or the other
Downloads + version + repo	✅	partial
No key / no proxy needed	✅	sometimes

🔗 Related actors

• npm Package Scraper — Node.js packages
• PyPI Scraper — Python packages
• crates.io Scraper — Rust crates
• Packagist Scraper — PHP packages

❓ FAQ

Key/proxy? No. Bulk? Use search with a high maxItems, or pass many gemNames.

🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

Legal & privacy

Data via the public RubyGems.org API.

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