# App Store Charts — Daily Rank Movement (`alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker`) Actor

Track App Store Top Free and Top Paid charts by country, and see exactly which apps moved since your last run: rank change, direction, new entries and drop-outs. Apple's official free feed - no key, no login, no anti-bot.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [alaudin burki](https://apify.com/alaudinburki) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## App Store Charts — Daily Rank Movement

Track App Store **Top Free** and **Top Paid** charts by country — and see exactly **which apps moved
since your last run**: rank change, direction, new entries and drop-outs.

Apple's official free RSS feed. **No API key, no login, no anti-bot.**

### Why this one

A chart snapshot is a commodity — anyone can fetch today's top 50. The value is the **delta**:
*"Duolingo jumped +14 places in US Top Free overnight"*, *"3 new entries in Finance"*, *"this app fell
out of the top 100 entirely"*. Schedule it daily and every row carries its movement, so you get the
signal ASO teams and app-focused investors actually act on.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `rank` / `previousRank` | Position now, and last run |
| **`rankChange`** | Places gained (+) or lost (−) since the last run |
| **`signal`** | `surging` (+10 or more) · `rising` · `stable` · `falling` · `plunging` · `new_entry` · `dropped_out` |
| `direction` | `up` · `down` · `flat` · `new` · `dropped_out` |
| `isNewEntry` | First time this app appears in the chart |
| `appName` / `developer` / `genre` / `genres` | App identity and category |
| `country` / `chartLabel` | Which store and which chart |
| `appId` / `appUrl` / `artwork` / `releaseDate` | Identifiers and links |

### How to use it

1. Pick **countries** (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `pk`…) and **charts** (Top Free / Top Paid), and a depth up to 200.
2. **Schedule it daily** — the first run sets the baseline, and every run after that reports movement.
3. Tick **Only apps that moved** for a clean alert feed, and wire a webhook.

> First run has no baseline, so everything comes back as `new_entry`. That's expected — run it again
> tomorrow to see real movement.

### Input

```json
{
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "charts": ["top-free", "top-paid"],
  "limit": 50,
  "trackRankChanges": true,
  "moversOnly": false
}
```

### Sample output

```json
[
  {
    "rank": 2,
    "previousRank": 12,
    "rankChange": 10,
    "signal": "surging",
    "direction": "up",
    "isNewEntry": false,
    "appName": "Alpha",
    "developer": "A Inc",
    "genre": "Games",
    "country": "US",
    "chartLabel": "Top Free apps",
    "appId": "1",
    "appUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1",
    "releaseDate": "2020-01-01",
    "status": "ok"
  }
]
```

### Typical uses

- **ASO / marketing** — prove a launch or campaign moved the chart, and watch competitors climb.
- **App investing / alt-data** — chart velocity is a cheap public proxy for download momentum.
- **Category scouting** — spot new entries breaking into a genre early.
- **Competitive alerting** — schedule with `moversOnly` + a webhook and get pinged only on real moves.

### Pricing

**$1.00 / 1,000 rows** (`$0.001` per result), plus a near-zero start fee. Never charged beyond your
`maxItems`; failed charts are reported in `QUALITY_REPORT`, not billed as data.

### FAQ & limitations

- **Where does the data come from?** Apple's official RSS Marketing Tools feed — public and free.
- **Why is everything `new_entry` on run 1?** There's no previous snapshot yet. The baseline is stored
  in the key-value store (`RANK_SNAPSHOTS`) and used on the next run.
- **Does it give download numbers?** No. Public chart rank only — no vendor publishes true downloads for free.
  Rank movement is the honest proxy, and it's labelled as such.
- **Google Play?** Not yet — Apple's feed is the one with a clean, official, unauthenticated source.
- **How deep can it go?** Up to 200 ranks per chart per country.
- **Grossing charts?** Apple's v2 apps feed exposes Top Free and Top Paid; grossing isn't offered there.

### Related actors

- **iTunes / App Store Search** — look up app metadata, ratings and reviews for any app you spot here.
- **SEC EDGAR Filings** — corporate events for the public companies behind the apps.
- **Google Trends Scraper** — pair chart movement with search interest.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter store country codes, e.g. us, gb, de, pk.

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Which charts to pull.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

How many ranks to pull per chart (max 200).

## `trackRankChanges` (type: `boolean`):

Compare against your previous run and add previousRank, rankChange, direction and a signal (surging/rising/falling/plunging/new\_entry). Schedule the actor daily to build the trend.

## `moversOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return just the apps whose rank changed since the last run — the alert view.

## `includeDropouts` (type: `boolean`):

Add a row for apps that were in the chart last run but are gone now.

## `useProxy` (type: `boolean`):

Rarely needed — the Apple feed is public.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard limit, strictly enforced.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ],
  "charts": [
    "top-free",
    "top-paid"
  ],
  "limit": 50,
  "trackRankChanges": true,
  "moversOnly": false,
  "includeDropouts": true,
  "useProxy": false,
  "maxItems": 5000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Chart rows with rank movement.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb"
    ],
    "charts": [
        "top-free",
        "top-paid"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb",
    ],
    "charts": [
        "top-free",
        "top-paid",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ],
  "charts": [
    "top-free",
    "top-paid"
  ]
}' |
apify call alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,alaudinburki/app-store-charts-tracker"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Q9G8osMLQVvwLcaTb/builds/BSovJtWoghz5p06S3/openapi.json