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📦 Vcpkg Ports Scraper

🚀 Export the full vcpkg port catalog in seconds. Name, version, description, dependencies, supported triplets, and license.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 11 fields per record · 2,000+ C and C++ ports · Microsoft vcpkg catalog · No login required

The Vcpkg Ports Scraper turns the public vcpkg.io/output.json catalog dump into a structured dataset. It loads the full port index, normalizes verbose vcpkg keys (Version-string, Version-semver, Version-date) to a single version field, and lets you filter by substring, license, or supported triplet.

📋 What the Vcpkg Ports Scraper does

• Fetches the canonical https://vcpkg.io/output.json catalog.
• Flattens vcpkg's multiple version key variants into a single version field.
• Filters by substring search, license, or supported triplet.
• Normalizes the dependencies array to plain strings.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a single diagnostic record.
• Exports to every Apify dataset format.

💡 Why it matters: vcpkg ships with thousands of ports but the catalog is a single 30 MB JSON blob with awkward key variants. This actor reshapes it for SQL and BI tools.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Example 1. All MIT-licensed ports.

{"license":"MIT","maxItems":100}

Example 2. Windows-only OpenSSL family.

{"search":"openssl","supportsTriplet":"windows"}

⚠️ Good to Know: The catalog dump is large. Free users see 10 records; paid users can pull the entire catalog.

📊 Output

{
"name":"zlib",
"version":"1.3.1",
"description":"A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library",
"homepage":"https://zlib.net/",
"license":"Zlib",
"supports":null,
"dependencies":["vcpkg-cmake"],
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public catalog, no key required. | | 🧹 | Normalizes vcpkg's three version-key variants into one. | | 🔎 | Filter by substring, license, or supported triplet. | | 🛟 | Clean diagnostic records on upstream errors. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Optionally set a search, license, or triplet filter.
3. Click Start and download the dataset.

💼 Business use cases

🛡️ CVE audits. Quickly list every port that depends on a CVE-flagged package.

🏗️ Build planning. Spot which triplets a candidate dependency supports.

📊 Ecosystem analytics. Track how the vcpkg catalog grows month over month.

🚀 Tooling integrations. Drive an internal package picker UI.

🔌 Automating Vcpkg Ports Scraper

• Make and Zapier trigger this actor on a schedule.
• Cron keeps your mirror fresh.
• Webhooks notify on completion.
• Pipe to BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres with native integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach package-manager design with real catalog data.

🧪 Personal research. Track the C and C++ ecosystem.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Publish a vcpkg dashboard.

🧰 Tinkering. Discover libraries fast.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Where does data come from? The official vcpkg.io/output.json catalog.

❓ Need an API key? No.

❓ How big is the catalog? Around 2,000 ports.

❓ Schedule runs? Yes.

❓ API or scraping? Public endpoint.

❓ Schema stability? Stable.

❓ Rate limits? None observed.

❓ Maximum run? 1,000,000 records on paid plans.

❓ Triplet filtering? Substring match against the supports field.

❓ Download formats? Any Apify dataset format.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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