🏔️ Alpine Linux Packages Scraper

🚀 Turn the Alpine Linux package index into clean, structured records. Query pkgs.alpinelinux.org by name, branch, repository, and architecture and get version, license, maintainer, and dependency data per package.

Pull the official Alpine Linux package database straight from pkgs.alpinelinux.org and drop it into a spreadsheet, a database, or your own tooling. Filter with a glob on the package name, pick a release branch, narrow to a repository and architecture, and get one clean record per package with the metadata that matters: version, license, maintainer, project link, and build date.

Coverage is the live Alpine package index as the site publishes it: the rolling edge branch plus the stable v3.x releases, across main, community, and testing repositories and every supported CPU architecture. Turn on dependency enrichment and each package also carries its description, install size, origin, commit hash, build time, and full depends, provides, and sub package lists.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Security and DevSecOps teams	Audit versions and licenses, track CVEs
Platform and container engineers	Pin base image packages, build SBOMs
Distro maintainers and packagers	Watch versions across branches
Mirror and tooling operators	Snapshot the index for offline use

📋 What the Alpine Linux Packages Scraper does

This Actor reads the public Alpine Linux package index at pkgs.alpinelinux.org and returns one clean record per package:

• Listing fields (always) — name, version, branch, repository, architecture, description, license, project URL, maintainer, build date, and the package page URL.
• Dependency enrichment (optional) — turn on includeDependencies and each package is enriched from its detail page with install size, origin, commit hash, commit URL, build time, and full depends, provides, and subPackages lists.

You control the package name glob, the branch, the repository, the architecture, and how many records come back. Every record carries a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: arch, branch, buildDate, description, license, maintainer, name, projectUrl, repo, scrapedAt, url, version. All 12 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Alpine Linux Packages Scraper.
3. Set the name glob, then pick a branch, repo, and arch.
4. Toggle includeDependencies if you want commit and dependency data, and set maxItems.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Alpine Linux. Only publicly available data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

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