# App Store Developer Apps Scraper - Every iOS App by a Publisher (`appdata-labs/app-store-developer-apps`) Actor

List every app a publisher ships on Apple's App Store from any one of their apps or their developer ID — no need to know Apple's numeric artist ID. Returns title, price, rating, version, category and release dates for the whole catalogue. Official Apple lookup API, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/appdata-labs/app-store-developer-apps.md
- **Developed by:** [Kobkoon Janngam](https://apify.com/appdata-labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Agents, MCP servers, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 developer app 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 Developer Apps Scraper — Every iOS App by a Publisher

**List everything one publisher ships on Apple's App Store** — the whole catalogue, with ratings, prices, versions and release dates — starting from any single app they made.

**Quick start:** press **Start** with no configuration at all. The Actor ships with two publishers as its default and returns their full catalogues immediately. Then paste in the app or developer you care about.

### Sample output

| developer | title | primaryGenre | formattedPrice | rating | ratingCount | version | currentVersionReleaseDate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notion Labs, Incorporated | Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI | Productivity | Free | 4.8 | 27,415 | 2.9.1 | 2026-08-26 |
| Notion Labs, Incorporated | Notion Calendar | Productivity | Free | 4.7 | 3,902 | 1.8.0 | 2026-08-19 |
| Meta Platforms, Inc. | Instagram | Photo & Video | Free | 4.7 | 27,188,443 | 401.0 | 2026-08-28 |

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

### Why you do not need Apple's developer ID

Apple identifies a publisher by a numeric ID — Notion is developer `1232780280` — and there is no obvious place to look it up. Worse, the IDs are adjacent to app IDs and indistinguishable from them: `1232780281` is the Notion app, `1232780280` is Notion the company, and both are just digits.

So this Actor takes **any of them**: an App Store URL, an app ID, a bundle ID, or the developer ID itself. Everything that is not already a developer ID is resolved to one first, in a single batched request no matter how many you pass. The resolved developer is recorded in `SUMMARY` so you have the exact ID for next time.

### What you can do with it

- **Map a competitor's whole portfolio.** One call, every app, with ratings and update dates — including the experiments nobody writes about.
- **Track a publisher over time.** Schedule it and you have a launch and retirement history for any developer on the App Store.
- **Due diligence.** Before partnering with or acquiring a studio, see everything they actually ship and how users rate it.
- **Find the studios behind apps you like.** Start from an app you rate and see what else the same people built.
- **Feed an AI agent.** Rows are small, consistently shaped and identical across runs.

### Input

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `developersOrAppUrls` | Notion, Meta | Developer IDs, App Store URLs, app IDs or bundle IDs. Mix freely. |
| `countries` | `["us"]` | Two-letter storefront codes. Catalogues differ by country — publishers release regionally. |
| `includeFullText` | `false` | Returns the complete description and every screenshot. Rows get roughly six times larger. |
| `maxAppsPerDeveloper` | `200` | Apple returns at most 200 per call. Most publishers have far fewer. |

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

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

### Limits worth knowing before you buy

This is the **iOS and iPadOS catalogue**. Apple's developer lookup does not expose a
Mac-only catalogue: asking it for `macSoftware` by developer returns nothing even for
publishers who demonstrably ship Mac apps, so there is no honest option to offer here rather
than a switch that quietly returns an empty result.

Apple returns at most 200 apps in one lookup, so a very large publisher may be truncated.
`SUMMARY` reports how many rows each developer returned, so you can see when you have hit
the ceiling.

### Pricing

Pay per app delivered. A developer with no apps in the requested store 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** iTunes Lookup API (`/lookup`), which
`itunes.apple.com/robots.txt` does not disallow. It signs into nothing, stores no
credentials, and parses no HTML. Nothing it returns is behind a login or a paywall.

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

# Actor input Schema

## `developersOrAppUrls` (type: `array`):

Each entry can be Apple’s numeric developer ID (284882218), an App Store URL for any one of their apps (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281), a numeric app ID (1232780281) or a bundle ID (com.burbn.instagram). Anything that is not already a developer ID is resolved to one first, so you never need to look it up yourself.

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

Two-letter country codes of the storefronts to read. Stores differ by country — rankings, prices and reviews are all per-country — so add countries to widen the result rather than raising the per-app limit.

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

Off by default. App descriptions run to several thousand characters and the screenshot list to a dozen URLs, which together make a row too big for an AI agent to read comfortably. Turn this on when you want the complete text and every screenshot.

## `maxAppsPerDeveloper` (type: `integer`):

How many apps to return for each developer in each country. Apple returns at most 200 in one call, so values above that are capped. Most publishers have far fewer.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "developersOrAppUrls": [
    "284882218",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
    "com.burbn.instagram"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb",
    "jp"
  ],
  "includeFullText": false,
  "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 200
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per app: title, price, rating, version, category, release date and the developer it belongs to — the publisher’s whole catalogue in one table.

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

What was requested, what was delivered, and the per-request counts behind it — enough to check 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 = {
    "developersOrAppUrls": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
        "284882218"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "includeFullText": false,
    "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 200
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("appdata-labs/app-store-developer-apps").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 = {
    "developersOrAppUrls": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
        "284882218",
    ],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "includeFullText": False,
    "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 200,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("appdata-labs/app-store-developer-apps").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 '{
  "developersOrAppUrls": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
    "284882218"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "includeFullText": false,
  "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 200
}' |
apify call appdata-labs/app-store-developer-apps --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/0BoPefaWg63Ntlylf/builds/GOHnsBACwK7IggJIF/openapi.json