---
description: "Discover approved apps data providers."
use_when: "The task requires structured apps data."
providers: 6
---
# Firecrawl Alexandria: Apps

Approved apps data providers for AI agents, ordered by popularity.

Search the whole catalog by describing what you need: `POST https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search` with `{ query: "<need>", sources: ["alexandria"] }`. The call shape is on the [router](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents).

## Providers

### GitHub
Public GitHub repositories, releases, issues, labels, contributors and raw file contents, plus the GitHub Advisory Database: reviewed, unreviewed and malware advisories with EPSS, CWEs and credits, and repositories' own security advisories, plus public user and organization profiles (counts, bio, company, location, top repositories and languages) and user search by location, language, followers and repository count. No email or contact data is returned: GitHub's Acceptable Use Policy forbids selling users' personal information.

- Provider key: `github-com`
- Cost (Advisory): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Contributors): 5 credits per call
- Cost (File): 1 credit per call
- Cost (Issue counts): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Issues): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Labels): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Latest release): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Malware advisories): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Releases): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Repo): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Repo advisories): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search advisories): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search repos): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search users): 5 credits per call
- Cost (User): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/github-com)

### AlternativeTo
AlternativeTo (alternativeto.net): crowd-sourced software catalog. Search apps, list alternatives to an app with platform/license/feature filters, browse the catalog by tag, and read an app's full public record (license, pricing, platforms, features, links, GitHub and App Store stats, ratings and reviews). Anonymous, read-only, English.

- Provider key: `alternativeto-net`
- Cost (Browse software): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get alternatives): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get software): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search software): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/alternativeto-net)

### Apple App Store
Apple App Store listings from Apple's own catalog and iTunes APIs: app detail with per-device compatibility (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision), prices and in-app purchase/subscription prices, version history and ratings; paginated customer reviews; keyword search; top charts by genre; a developer's apps.

- Provider key: `apps-apple-com`
- Cost (App): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Developer apps): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Reviews): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Top charts): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/apps-apple-com)

### Aptoide
Android app metadata from Aptoide: search packages, inspect app permissions, downloads, ratings and signing certificates, and read version history.

- Provider key: `aptoide-com`
- Cost (App): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Versions): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/aptoide-com)

### npm
npm, the JavaScript package registry: full-text and typeahead package search, package documents with dist-tags and version history, per-version dependencies and tarballs, download counts (totals, daily series, per version), dependents and packages by user or organization.

- Provider key: `npmjs-com`
- Cost (Get download range): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get downloads): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get package): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get package version): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Get version downloads): 5 credits per call
- Cost (List dependents): 5 credits per call
- Cost (List owner packages): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Search packages): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Suggest packages): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/npmjs-com)

### PyPI
Python Package Index: project and release metadata, dependencies and Python compatibility, distribution files with hashes, PEP 740 provenance, release feeds, the global change log, a user's projects and site statistics.

- Provider key: `pypi-org`
- Cost (Changelog): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Files): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Project): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Provenance): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Recent releases): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Release): 5 credits per call
- Cost (Stats): 5 credits per call
- Cost (User projects): 5 credits per call
- Next file: [Provider guide](https://alexandria.firecrawl.dev/agents/providers/pypi-org)

Each provider guide carries its request options and response shape.