I would like to know is there an API to get the Top Docker Hub images?
Like what we can get when we open https://hub.docker.com/explore/
I have checked:
https://docs.docker.com/engine/api/v1.28/# and https://docs.docker.com/registry/spec/api/
But did not find what I want.
From https://hub.docker.com/explore/, the following API is called :
https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/?page=1&page_size=15
The default filter is by descending pull count, it will give you the following response :
{
"count": 139,
"next": "https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/?page=1&page_size=15",
"previous": null,
"results": [{
"user": "library",
"name": "nginx",
"namespace": "library",
"repository_type": "image",
"status": 1,
"description": "Official build of Nginx.",
"is_private": false,
"is_automated": false,
"can_edit": false,
"star_count": 5777,
"pull_count": 618674944,
"last_updated": "2017-04-06T16:35:19.178373Z",
"build_on_cloud": null
},
...
...
]
}
So the following will give your the top 100 docker images pulled on docker hub :
https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/?page=1&page_size=100
The page_size has a maximum size of 100 (so 100 per page) and count is the maximum count this endpoint can give (for all pages).
For instance with curl and jq JSON parser :
curl -s "https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/?page=1&page_size=100" | \
jq '.results'
Now there is an internal API from https://store.docker.com to query images either from the store or from dockerhub. The most popular ones from dockerhub can be retrieved with :
Request result has a popularity numeric field. To get the images filtered by descending popularity:
curl -s "https://store.docker.com/api/content/v1/products/search?page_size=100&q=%2B&source=community&type=image%2Cbundle" | \
jq '.summaries | sort_by(-.popularity)'