VS Code Marketplace Scraper

Extract extension details, install counts, ratings, and publisher info from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace. Built on spider-browser .

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target
marketplace.visualstudio.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

POST /fetch/marketplace.visualstudio.com/

return_format

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/marketplace.visualstudio.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

200 OK · cache hit · response shape

{
  "url": "https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "extension_name": "string",
    "publisher": "string",
    "installs": "string",
    "rating": "string",
    "version": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "categories": "string",
    "last_updated": "string"
  }
}

# VS Code Marketplace Scraper

**Extension name**: string
**Publisher**: string
**Installs**: string
**Rating**: string
**Version**: string
**Description**: string
**Categories**: string
**Last updated**: string

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from marketplace.visualstudio.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

vscode-marketplace-scraper.ts

import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?target=VSCode&category=All%20categories&sortBy=Installs");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const extensions = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".gallery-item-card").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector(".item-title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const publisher = el.querySelector(".publisher-name")?.textContent?.trim();
    const installs = el.querySelector(".install-count")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector(".average-rating")?.getAttribute("title");
    const desc = el.querySelector(".item-description")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) extensions.push({ name, publisher, installs, rating, desc });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: extensions.length, extensions: extensions.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/marketplace.visualstudio.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/marketplace.visualstudio.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/marketplace.visualstudio.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);