Shopify App Intelligence Scraper

Scrape the Shopify App Store by category and generate a structured dataset of Shopify apps enriched with key business and intelligence signals such as developer details, pricing, ratings, and reviews metadata.

This Actor is Apify-safe, non-interactive, and designed for automation, analytics, and market research.

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What this Actor does

• Crawls Shopify App Store categories
• Extracts app-level metadata
• Normalizes results into a clean tabular dataset
• Exports results to Apify Dataset and downloadable files

Typical use cases

• Shopify app market research
• Competitive intelligence
• App ecosystem analysis
• Lead discovery for agencies and SaaS tools

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🚀 Quick Start

Run the Actor with default settings (safe and fast):

{}
his will:

Scrape a limited subset of Shopify categories

Extract app metadata

Create an Apify Dataset

Export OUTPUT.csv and OUTPUT.xlsx



This will:

Scrape a limited subset of Shopify categories

Extract app metadata

Create an Apify Dataset

Export OUTPUT.csv and OUTPUT.xlsx

{
  "shopify": {
    "selected_categories": ["Store design apps", "Marketing and conversion apps"],
    "products_per_category": 10
  }
}
Who this Actor is for

This Actor is especially useful for:

Market researchers analyzing the Shopify app ecosystem

Agencies discovering competitors or partner tools

SaaS founders benchmarking similar apps

Lead generation teams building lists of Shopify app developers

Consultants preparing ecosystem or trend reports

No scraping knowledge required — configure inputs and run.

Outputs
✅ Apify Dataset (primary output)

Each scraped app is pushed as a dataset item and can be:

Viewed directly in Apify Console

Exported to JSON / CSV / XLSX via Apify UI or API

✅ Key-Value Store exports

At the end of the run, the Actor also saves:

OUTPUT.csv

OUTPUT.xlsx

These files are available in the Key-Value Store of the run and can be downloaded directly.

All outputs are automatically available after the run completes.

Output fields

Typical fields include (availability depends on the app):

category

app_name

app_url

short_description

full_description

developer_name

developer_website

price

rating

reviews_count

reviews_source

scraped_at

Note: Not all Shopify apps expose all fields. Missing values are left empty.

Input configuration
Input overview

| Input block     | Purpose                                                       |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `shopify`       | Controls which Shopify categories and how many apps to scrape |
| `limits`        | Safety limits for volume and runtime                          |
| `output`        | Export options (CSV / XLSX)                                   |
| `proxySettings` | Proxy configuration for stability                             |

{
  "headless": true
}
Runs the browser in headless mode.
Recommended for Apify Cloud runs.

shopify

Shopify scraping configuration object.
{
  "shopify": {
    "nav_config_path": "config/shopify_nav.json",
    "products_per_category": 30,
    "selected_categories": [],
    "max_categories": 0
  }
}
Parameters
| Field                   | Description                                                             |
| ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `nav_config_path`       | Path to Shopify category navigation config (must exist in Actor source) |
| `products_per_category` | Maximum number of apps to scrape per category                           |
| `selected_categories`   | Filter categories by index or by name                                   |
| `max_categories`        | Limit number of categories (`0` = unlimited)                            |

Examples
Scrape all categories
{
  "selected_categories": []
}
Scrape by category index
{
  "selected_categories": ["Store design apps"]
}
Limit to first 2 categories
{
  "max_categories": 2
}
How to run
On Apify

Open the Actor in Apify Console

Click Run

Provide INPUT (or keep defaults)

Wait for completion

Download results:

Dataset → JSON / CSV / XLSX

Key-Value Store → OUTPUT.csv, OUTPUT.xlsx
Locally (optional)
apify run
Technical notes

Built with Python + Playwright

Uses Apify SDK Dataset for structured output

Uses Key-Value Store for downloadable CSV/XLSX

Designed to be:

non-interactive

automation-safe

Apify Store–ready

Limitations

Shopify UI and selectors may change over time

Rate limits or bot detection may affect coverage

Some apps do not expose all metadata fields

Results are best-effort based on public Shopify data

License & usage

Use responsibly and in compliance with:

Shopify Terms of Service

Local data protection regulations

Maintained by Adinfosys Labs


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Next step: `apify push --force`, upload screenshots, paste Store description, and **Publish**.

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