# App Store Reviews Scraper – Official Apple RSS, 45+ Countries (`almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed`) Actor

iOS App Store reviews via Apple's public customer-review RSS/JSON feed and iTunes Lookup. Up to ~1,000 unique reviews per country across 45+ storefronts. No HTML scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed.md
- **Developed by:** [Almmity](https://apify.com/almmity) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.09 / 1,000 review returneds

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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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 Reviews Scraper – Official Apple RSS / iTunes Feed, ~1,000 per country

Get **iOS App Store reviews** for any app from **Apple’s own public customer-review RSS/JSON feed and the iTunes Lookup API**: rating, title, text, app version, date, country, helpfulness votes, plus app name, developer and overall rating. No HTML scraping, no login, no proxies, no captchas — runs are fast and rarely break.

**Also known as:** App Store review RSS scraper, Apple customer reviews API wrapper, iTunes reviews feed exporter (45+ storefronts).

### Who is this for

- **Product / UX teams** – pull 1–2★ complaints after each release (`maxRating: 2`, filter by `appVersion`).
- **ASO and marketing agencies** – weekly multi-country review exports to Google Sheets, Slack or BI.
- **Competitor researchers** – compare review themes of rival apps across US/EU storefronts.
- **AI / sentiment pipelines** – clean JSON/CSV ready for LLM summarisation.

### Why this one

Common pain points with App Store review tools, and how this actor handles them:

- **"Only 500 reviews per country."** Apple’s feed caps each sort at ~500. Combining *most recent* + *most helpful* (deduplicated) yields **up to ~1,000 unique reviews per country** (Spotify test: 1,000 US, 1,000 GB, 988 PL).
- **"I have to look up numeric IDs."** Paste an App Store URL, numeric ID **or bundle ID** (`com.spotify.client`).
- **"One country at a time."** List countries, or `["all"]` for 47 major storefronts (fetched in parallel).
- **"I pay for reviews I don’t need."** Filter by stars, keywords and `since` **before** charge; `maxReviewsPerApp` caps cost.
- **"It returned 0 reviews with a green checkmark."** Apple often returns valid but empty pages (“holes”). This actor scans the full page range, retries empty pages with a second client/URL form, tags `sortUsed`, and if Apple returns nothing you pay nothing.
- **"Runs fail randomly."** Retries with back-off; unknown apps are skipped with a warning.
- **"Missing app context."** Every row includes app name, developer, average rating and rating count.

### Input examples by buyer type

Product team – recent 1–2★ complaints for one app (cheap sample):

```json
{"apps": ["com.spotify.client"], "countries": ["us"], "maxRating": 2, "maxReviewsPerApp": 20, "maxPagesPerCountry": 2}
```

ASO agency – three markets, Facebook + Spotify, since last month:

```json
{"apps": ["com.spotify.client", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215"], "countries": ["us", "gb", "de"], "maxRating": 2, "since": "2026-09-01"}
```

Sentiment pipeline – one country, full recent+helpful sweep, hard cap:

```json
{"apps": ["324684580"], "countries": ["pl"], "includeMostHelpful": true, "maxReviewsPerApp": 500}
```

### Output example

```json
{"reviewId": "14661876090", "appId": "284882215", "country": "us", "rating": 1, "title": "…", "text": "…", "appVersion": "582.0.0", "userName": "…", "date": "2026-10-13T07:16:48-07:00", "voteSum": 0, "voteCount": 0, "appName": "Facebook", "developer": "Meta Platforms, Inc.", "appAverageRating": 4.2, "appRatingCount": 12345678}
```

### Example dataset (demo run)

Cheap public demo on build **0.1.3** (2026-10-16): Facebook (`284882215`), US, **20 reviews**.

- [Open demo run](https://console.apify.com/view/runs/pNU7xA2ED6XkKtmVz)
- [Open dataset](https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/iGyoXODAnDmVmcXBB)
  Or **Try for free** on the Store page (example input: Spotify / US / maxRating 2 / 20 reviews).

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$0.09 per 1,000 reviews**. No start fee.

### Related actors (same publisher)

- [GUS BDL – Polish Local Statistics (Bank Danych Lokalnych)](https://apify.com/almmity/gus-bdl-poland-local-statistics) – official GUS BDL / TERYT local statistics API.
- [Poland EU Funding Calls (Nabory) – Dotacje UE i KPO](https://apify.com/almmity/poland-eu-funding-calls) – official Polish EU funds / KPO call tables.

### Limits (honest)

Apple’s public feed only exposes the most recent and most helpful reviews (up to about 500 each per country). Older reviews beyond that can’t be fetched by any feed-based tool. Use `since` with a daily or weekly schedule to build a complete history going forward.

Keywords: App Store reviews scraper, Apple RSS reviews, iTunes customer reviews feed, iOS app reviews API, ASO reviews export, App Store rating scraper.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

App Store URLs, numeric app IDs (e.g. 284882215) or bundle IDs (e.g. com.spotify.client).

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

Two-letter storefront codes (us, gb, de, pl…). Use \["all"] for 47 major storefronts.

## `includeMostHelpful` (type: `boolean`):

Apple's feed caps each sort at ~500 reviews; combining 'most recent' + 'most helpful' (deduplicated) yields up to ~1,000 unique reviews per country.

## `maxPagesPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Lower this for quick, cheap samples.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Keep reviews with at least this rating.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Keep reviews with at most this rating (e.g. 2 for complaints only).

## `since` (type: `string`):

Incremental monitoring: only return reviews on or after this date.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep only reviews whose title or text contains any keyword (case-insensitive).

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap to control cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "includeMostHelpful": true,
  "maxPagesPerCountry": 10,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed").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 = { "apps": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ]
}' |
apify call almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,almmity/app-store-reviews-official-feed"
        }
    }
}
```

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/97XD8on9biosYbhtU/builds/25OgVFxjtk12hKGlT/openapi.json