Finding the layers and layer sizes for each Docker image

Question

For research purposes I\'m trying to crawl the public Docker registry ( https://registry.hub.docker.com/ ) and find out 1) how many layers an average image has and 2) the si

Answer 1

I've solved this problem by using the search function on Docker's website where '*' is a valid search that returns 200k repositories and then I crawled each invididual page. HTML parsing allows me to extract all the image names on each page.