# App Store Intelligence API: Keywords, Ranks & History (`appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api`) Actor

Get Appalize keyword metrics, market comparisons, stored rankings, history, modeled download estimates and app profiles. Eight App Store research operations; no customer API key required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Appalize](https://apify.com/appalize) (community)
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## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 appalize intelligence reports

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 Intelligence API: Keywords, Ranks & History

Get Appalize keyword metrics, market comparisons, stored rankings, history, modeled download estimates and app profiles. Eight App Store research operations; no customer API key required.

### Data flow

**Apify → api.appalize.com → Appalize services and stored research data.** This Actor makes no direct Apple/iTunes requests and has no direct-store fallback. Appalize may maintain its data using Apple sources.

No Appalize account or API key is required from the customer. Publisher authentication is managed privately.

### Quick start

```json
{
  "operation": "keyword-metrics",
  "keywords": [
    "spotify"
  ],
  "apps": [
    "324684580"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReports": 2
}
```

### Operations

#### keyword-metrics

One keyword × country. Returns stored measured popularity, modeled volume, difficulty, source, measurement time and stale flag. Missing data is not a zero score.

#### keyword-worldwide

One keyword × selected country group. Returns Appalize traffic/CI/KEI indices across up to 10 countries. These are modeled indices, not search counts; this source does not expose observation dates.

#### top-keywords

One country report with up to 100 stored keyword rows, ordered by the backend volume score. This is not a complete market demand census.

#### keyword-rankings

One keyword × country. Latest stored Appalize SERP positions, with observation time and up to 100 app rows. This does not initiate a new store scan.

#### rank-history

One keyword × Apple app ID × country. Up to 90 days of stored observations. Dates without data are omitted, never interpolated.

#### download-estimates

One Apple app ID × country. Modeled daily organic install contribution over up to 90 days of stored top-30 ranking history. Heuristic volume buckets × rank CTR; not measured downloads, sales or revenue. The underlying model uses a floor score of 5 when volume is unavailable.

#### app-profile

One Apple numeric app ID. Appalize public catalog profile; country is unknown and no country-specific live metadata claim is made. Any catalog estimates retain the source limitations.

#### tag-history

One Apple app ID × country. Existing tag snapshots within up to 90 days. Does not trigger a new capture. Empty tag lists do not prove the absence of Apple tags.

### Output and cost

One dataset row is one successful report, including its nested rows. JSON preserves the complete nested data. Every report includes provider, operation, input, retrieval time and source provenance. Retrieval time is not the source measurement time.

**Check the live Pricing tab for active prices.** The result price is $20 per 1,000 reports, plus a $0.00005 Actor-start event (one per GB, minimum one), with platform usage included.

No-data responses are counted in `RUN-SUMMARY` and incur no report event. Failed API requests incur no report event. `maxReports` and Apify maximum-charge settings cap output costs. Shared upstream quotas may return 429; retries are bounded. If Appalize is unavailable, the run reports the failure rather than switching data sources.

Checkpoints skip completed units when resuming unchanged input. Dataset publication and checkpoint storage are not atomic; deduplicate `recordId` within a run after interruption.

### Coverage and support

Data availability varies by keyword, country, app and date. We do not backfill missing history or fabricate zero demand. These products do not expose private App Store Connect sales, customer workspaces or advertising account records.

Built by [Appalize](https://appalize.com). Report a run ID and non-sensitive input in Issues. Do not share authentication headers or secrets.

# Actor input Schema

## `operation` (type: `string`):

Choose the Appalize API report to retrieve.

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

Up to 25. Required for keyword operations and rank-history.

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

Up to 25 numeric Apple IDs. Required for app-profile, tag-history, rank-history and download-estimates.

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

Up to 10 lowercase two-letter country codes. Catalog profiles are not country-specific.

## `days` (type: `integer`):

Maximum age of stored historical observations.

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

Maximum nested rows for top keywords and keyword rankings.

## `maxReports` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many successful billable reports.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "operation": "keyword-metrics",
  "keywords": [
    "spotify"
  ],
  "apps": [
    "324684580"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "days": 30,
  "limit": 50,
  "maxReports": 10
}
```

# 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 = {
    "keywords": [
        "spotify"
    ],
    "apps": [
        "324684580"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api").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 = {
    "keywords": ["spotify"],
    "apps": ["324684580"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api").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 '{
  "keywords": [
    "spotify"
  ],
  "apps": [
    "324684580"
  ]
}' |
apify call appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,appalize/app-store-keyword-intelligence-api"
        }
    }
}
```

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/0OkadKQeLhfUzxPIo/builds/WocguNwMkspZM5avm/openapi.json