iTunes Search API Scraper

Queries Apple's official iTunes Search API for any term and entity type (apps, songs, podcasts, and other media) and returns flat, typed JSON records with pricing, ratings, genres, and full metadata. Built for ASO teams tracking app store rankings, developers benchmarking competitor apps, and researchers or marketplaces needing structured iTunes/App Store data without writing API integration code.

Why this scraper

• One flat schema for every media type. Apps, songs, and podcasts all come back with the same normalized field set, so you don't need separate parsing logic per entity type.
• Query context included in every record. Each result carries the searchTerm and entity it was found under, so you can trace results back to the query that produced them when running multiple searches in one job.
• $0.0002 per result. Priced well below comparable pay-per-result iTunes scrapers with established usage.

Output fields

Field	Type	Description
trackId	integer	Unique iTunes/App Store identifier for the result
trackName	string	Name of the app, song, or media item
artistName	string	Developer, artist, or seller name
sellerName	string	Legal seller name (apps only)
bundleId	string	App bundle identifier (apps only)
kind	string	Media kind, e.g. software, song, podcast
wrapperType	string	iTunes wrapper type of the result
primaryGenreName	string	Primary genre/category name
genres	string	Comma-separated list of all genres
price	number	Numeric price in the store currency
currency	string	ISO currency code
formattedPrice	string	Human-readable price string, e.g. Free or $4.99
averageUserRating	number	Average user rating across all versions
userRatingCount	integer	Total number of user ratings
releaseDate	string	Original release date, ISO 8601
currentVersionReleaseDate	string	Release date of current version, ISO 8601
version	string	Current version string
description	string	Full store description text
artworkUrl	string	URL of the 512x512 artwork image
trackViewUrl	string	Public store page URL for the item
minimumOsVersion	string	Minimum required OS version (apps only)
fileSizeBytes	integer	App file size in bytes (apps only)
contentAdvisoryRating	string	Content age rating, e.g. 4+
collectionName	string	Album or collection name (music/media only)
trackTimeMillis	integer	Track duration in milliseconds (music only)
searchTerm	string	The search term extracted from the input startUrl
entity	string	The entity type queried, e.g. software or song

Input

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=fitness&entity=software&limit=50" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

{
  "trackId": 1208224953,
  "trackName": "Apple Fitness",
  "artistName": "Apple",
  "sellerName": "Apple Inc.",
  "bundleId": "com.apple.Fitness",
  "kind": "software",
  "wrapperType": "software",
  "primaryGenreName": "Health & Fitness",
  "genres": "Health & Fitness",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "averageUserRating": 2.86673,
  "userRatingCount": 11405,
  "releaseDate": "2017-04-10T23:30:13Z",
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-03-17T21:41:25Z",
  "version": "2.7",
  "description": "Apple Fitness and Apple Fitness+\nGet a comprehensive view of your fitness including Activity details, training load, Trends, and Awards...",
  "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/93/61/a0/9361a04d-3951-ec4b-4566-65ba69afc4fc/fitness-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-sRGB-85-220.png/512x512bb.jpg",
  "trackViewUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-fitness/id1208224953?uo=4",
  "minimumOsVersion": "11.0",
  "fileSizeBytes": 9921536,
  "contentAdvisoryRating": "4+",
  "collectionName": "",
  "trackTimeMillis": null,
  "searchTerm": "fitness",
  "entity": "software"
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result at $0.0002 per record returned. A search returning 50 results (one startUrl with limit=50) costs $0.01. Running the three sample queries above (150 results total) costs $0.03.

Use cases

• ASO keyword tracking: run the same search term weekly with entity=software to monitor how an app's ranking, rating, and price shift in results over time.
• Competitor app research: pull all apps in a category (e.g. term=finance&entity=software) to compare pricing, ratings, and update frequency across a market segment.
• Music/podcast catalog lookups: query entity=song or entity=podcast to build a flat dataset of track metadata, genres, and release dates for a content library or recommendation feature.