# App Store Scraper - Apple App Details & Search API (`appdata-labs/app-store-app-details`) Actor

Search the Apple App Store by keyword or look up apps by ID, URL or bundle ID. Returns ratings, rating counts, price, version, release notes, size, genres, languages and screenshots for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Official Apple endpoints, no login, no HTML parsing.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/appdata-labs/app-store-app-details.md
- **Developed by:** [Kobkoon Janngam](https://apify.com/appdata-labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Agents, MCP servers, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$5.00 / 1,000 app record scrapeds

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## App Store Scraper — Apple App Details & Search API

**Search the Apple App Store by keyword, or look up any app by URL, ID or bundle ID.** Returns ratings, rating counts, price, version, release dates, size, genres, languages and screenshots as clean JSON.

**Quick start:** press **Start** with no configuration at all. The Actor ships with a working default search and returns 25 apps immediately. Then swap in your own keyword or app list.

### Sample output

| title | developer | rating | ratingCount | formattedPrice | primaryGenre | version | currentVersionReleaseDate | searchRank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaks | Crunchy Bagel | 4.7 | 21,884 | $5.99 | Health & Fitness | 8.4.1 | 2026-08-12 | 1 |
| Habitica | HabitRPG, Inc. | 4.4 | 43,102 | Free | Productivity | 4.9.0 | 2026-07-30 | 2 |

Every row also carries `appId`, `bundleId`, `url`, `developerId`, `developerUrl`, `description`, `releaseNotes`, `isFree`, `currency`, `contentRating`, `minimumOsVersion`, `fileSizeBytes`, `genres`, `languages`, `icon` and `screenshots`.

### What you can do with it

- **App Store Optimisation.** Run the same keyword across countries and see who ranks where. `searchRank` is the position Apple's own search returned, so you can track keyword movement over time.
- **Competitor tracking.** Feed a list of rival app IDs and watch rating, rating count, price and version on a schedule. A sudden rating drop or a price change is a signal you want the same day.
- **Market research.** Search a category term in ten storefronts and compare pricing, ratings and localisation depth before you build anything.
- **Enrich a spreadsheet.** Have a list of bundle IDs from an MDM export or an ad platform? Look them all up in one run and get titles, developers and current versions back.
- **Feed an AI agent.** Rows are capped in size by default so an LLM can read a full result set without its context filling up.

### Input

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQuery` | `habit tracker` | Used only when no specific apps are listed. Works exactly like the App Store search box. |
| `appStoreUrlsOrIds` | empty | Look up exact apps instead of searching. URL, numeric ID or bundle ID. |
| `countries` | `["us"]` | Two-letter storefront codes. Prices, rankings and availability differ per country. |
| `maxApps` | `25` | Per country. Apple returns at most 200 search results. |
| `deviceType` | `software` | `software` iPhone, `iPadSoftware` iPad, `macSoftware` Mac App Store. |
| `includeFullText` | `false` | Off by default: descriptions are trimmed to a 600-character preview and screenshots capped at 3, so rows stay small. Turn on for the complete text. |

### How it works, and why it keeps working

This Actor reads Apple's **official public iTunes Search and Lookup APIs**. No HTML parsing, no login, no proxy. Apple can redesign the App Store and this Actor keeps returning the same fields — which is why it is not on the maintenance treadmill that breaks most scrapers.

Requests are rate-limited below Apple's documented threshold, so a large multi-country run completes instead of getting throttled half-way and handing you a partial dataset.

### Limits worth knowing before you buy

Apple returns at most 200 search results per keyword per country. Looking up a specific app in a country where it is not published returns nothing for that country — the run still succeeds and tells you which lookups came up empty. Bundle IDs must be exact; a partial bundle ID will not match.

### Pricing

Pay per app record delivered. A run that finds nothing charges you nothing.

### Disclaimer

This is an **unofficial** tool. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by, or in
any way officially connected to Apple Inc. "Apple", "App Store", "iOS", "iPadOS" and "macOS"
are trademarks of Apple Inc.

It reads only Apple's **public, unauthenticated** endpoints — the iTunes Search and Lookup
APIs and the public RSS feeds. It signs into nothing, stores no credentials, and parses no
HTML. Nothing it returns is behind a login or a paywall, and every field it returns is data
the App Store already shows to anyone.

Apple can change or withdraw those endpoints at any time. When a feed returns nothing, this
Actor says so in the log rather than handing you an empty result that looks like an answer.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

What to search the App Store for, exactly as you would type it into the App Store search box. Used only when no specific apps are listed below. Example: "habit tracker".

## `appStoreUrlsOrIds` (type: `array`):

Look up these exact apps instead of searching. Each entry can be an App Store URL (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281), a numeric app ID (1232780281), or a bundle ID (com.burbn.instagram). Leave empty to search by keyword instead.

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

Two-letter country codes of the App Store storefronts to read. Prices, rankings and availability differ per country, so add more countries to compare them. Examples: us, gb, de, jp, th, br.

## `maxApps` (type: `integer`):

How many app records to return for each country. Keep this small for fast, cheap runs. Apple returns at most 200 search results per country.

## `deviceType` (type: `string`):

Which App Store catalogue to search. software is iPhone, iPadSoftware is iPad, macSoftware is the Mac App Store. Ignored when looking up specific apps.

## `includeFullText` (type: `boolean`):

By default the app description and release notes are shortened to a 600-character preview and screenshots are capped at 3, which keeps each row small enough to pass straight into an AI model. Turn this on to get the complete description, full release notes and every screenshot URL.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchQuery": "habit tracker",
  "appStoreUrlsOrIds": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
    "com.burbn.instagram"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb",
    "jp"
  ],
  "maxApps": 25,
  "deviceType": "software",
  "includeFullText": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `rows` (type: `string`):

One row per app: title, developer, rating, price, version, size, genres and screenshots.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

What was requested, what was delivered, and per-app counts — useful for checking a run without reading every row.

# 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 = {
    "searchQuery": "habit tracker",
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "maxApps": 25,
    "deviceType": "software",
    "includeFullText": false
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("appdata-labs/app-store-app-details").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 = {
    "searchQuery": "habit tracker",
    "countries": ["us"],
    "maxApps": 25,
    "deviceType": "software",
    "includeFullText": False,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("appdata-labs/app-store-app-details").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 '{
  "searchQuery": "habit tracker",
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxApps": 25,
  "deviceType": "software",
  "includeFullText": false
}' |
apify call appdata-labs/app-store-app-details --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/9KaFHwD5FgQCbSpkg/builds/QOeeC60xK1XFXq5ZR/openapi.json