diff --git a/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/tests/utils/test_pypi_adapter.py b/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/tests/utils/test_pypi_adapter.py
index 259927c37..ca2f5a0e3 100644
--- a/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/tests/utils/test_pypi_adapter.py
+++ b/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/tests/utils/test_pypi_adapter.py
@@ -137,31 +137,9 @@ class TestPypiAdapter:
     def setup_method(self, monkeypatch):
         monkeypatch.setattr(requests, "get", self._mocked_requests_get)
 
-    def _generate_html_data(self, plugin_version_list: List[Tuple[str, str]]):
-        data = [
-            f"""
-                <div>
-                    <span class="package-snippet__name">{plugin[0]}</span>
-                    <span class="{self._version_field}">{plugin[1]}</span>
-                </div>
-            """
-            for plugin in plugin_version_list
-        ]
-        return "<br>".join(data)
-
     def _mocked_requests_get(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        if args[0] == "https://pypi.org/search/":
-            params = kwargs.get("params", {})
-            page = params.get("page", 1000)
-            if (
-                params
-                and len(params) == 3
-                and params.get("o") == "-created"
-                and params.get("c") == "Framework :: napari"
-                and page < 3
-            ):
-                data = plugins()[:2] if page == 1 else plugins()[2:]
-                return MockResponse(content=self._generate_html_data(data))
+        if args[0] == "https://api.napari.org/api/plugins":
+            return MockResponse(content=json.dumps({name: version for name, version in plugins()}))
         elif args[0] == "https://pypi.org/pypi/napari-demo/json":
             return MockResponse(content=valid_pypi_data())
         elif args[0] == "https://pypi.org/pypi/default-demo/json":
@@ -171,15 +149,9 @@ def _mocked_requests_get(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return MockResponse(status_code=requests.codes.not_found)
 
     def test_get_all_plugins(self):
-        self._version_field = "package-snippet__version"
         expected = {plugin[0]: plugin[1] for plugin in plugins()}
         assert expected == pypi_adapter.get_all_plugins()
 
-    def test_get_all_plugins_invalid_response(self):
-        self._version_field = "foo"
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
-            pypi_adapter.get_all_plugins()
-
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "plugin, version, extra_fields, expected",
         [
diff --git a/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/utils/pypi_adapter.py b/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/utils/pypi_adapter.py
index 3a765986b..921b61a00 100644
--- a/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/utils/pypi_adapter.py
+++ b/napari-hub-commons/src/nhcommons/utils/pypi_adapter.py
@@ -11,36 +11,24 @@
 _NAME_PATTERN = re.compile('class="package-snippet__name">(.+)</span>')
 _VERSION_PATTERN = re.compile('class="package-snippet__version">(.+)</span>')
 _BASE_URL = "https://pypi.org"
-_SEARCH_URL = f"/search/"
 _PLUGIN_DATA_URL = "/pypi/{plugin}/json"
+_NPE2API_URL = "https://api.napari.org/api"
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 def get_all_plugins() -> Dict[str, str]:
     """
-    Query pypi to get all plugins.
+    Query npe2api to get all plugins.
+
+    Now we use the npe2api to get the list of plugins, which uses the public BigQuery pypi metadata
+    as a source of truth.
+
+    The previous implementation was broken by anti-scraping changes to PyPI.
     :returns: all plugin names and latest version
     """
-    logger.info("Getting all napari plugins from PYPI")
-    packages = {}
-    page = 1
-    params = {"o": "-created", "c": "Framework :: napari"}
-    while True:
-        try:
-            params["page"] = page
-            response = _get_pypi_response(_SEARCH_URL, params=params)
-            html = response.text
-            names = _NAME_PATTERN.findall(html)
-            versions = _VERSION_PATTERN.findall(html)
-            logger.info(f"Count of plugins fetched for page={page} {len(packages)}")
-            if len(names) != len(versions):
-                raise ValueError("Count of plugin and version don't match")
-            for name, version in zip(names, versions):
-                packages[name] = version
-            page += 1
-        except HTTPError:
-            break
+    logger.info("Getting all napari plugins from npe2api")
+    packages = get_request(_NPE2API_URL + "/plugins").json()
     logger.info(f"Total number of napari plugins fetched={len(packages)}")
     return packages