App Store Keyword Rankings 🔎 (SERP Capture)

See exactly where apps rank in Apple App Store search. Give this Actor a list of keywords and it returns the ranked search results a real user sees — organic results and Apple's sponsored ("ad") slots — for any keyword, in any country storefront. One clean row per result, ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or push into your own pipeline.

No scraping, no proxies, no HTML parsing, no rate-limit headaches. Powered by the AppSigma App Store API, served straight from Apple's data.

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What it does

For every keyword × country you provide, the Actor runs one App Store search and records each result as a flat row — its rank, whether it's organic or a paid ad, and the app's full listing snapshot (developer, category, rating, price, devices, and more).

• ✅ Organic + sponsored results, ranked exactly as Apple returns them
• ✅ Any storefront — search the same keyword across us, gb, de, jp, …
• ✅ Rich app data per result — no second lookup needed
• ✅ Flat, spreadsheet-friendly output (nested fields pre-unwrapped into columns)
• ✅ Fast & reliable — parallel requests, automatic retries, no proxies to configure

Use cases

• ASO keyword tracking — monitor where your app (and competitors) rank for target keywords, per country, over time.
• Competitor SERP monitoring — snapshot the full ranked list for a keyword and watch it shift release-to-release.
• Apple Search Ads audit — capture which apps are buying the sponsored slot for a keyword and how often.
• Market & category research — discover the top apps surfacing for a whole set of keywords in a niche.

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Input

Configure it from the visual input form or pass JSON:

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords (required)	array of strings	—	Search terms, exactly as typed into App Store search
countries	array of strings	["us"]	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 storefronts; each keyword is searched in every one
resultsPerKeyword	integer 1–50	10	Max organic results to capture per keyword, in Apple's rank order
includeAds	boolean	true	Include Apple's sponsored slot(s) shown above organic results
maxResults	integer	0	Stop after this many total rows (0 = no limit)
concurrency	integer 1–20	5	How many searches to run in parallel
iconWidth	integer 16–2048	512	Pixel width for the ready-to-use icon image URL

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["photo editor", "video editor"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "resultsPerKeyword": 25,
  "includeAds": true
}

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Output

Each row is one search result. Nested objects (developer, rating, price) are flattened into plain columns so the data drops straight into a spreadsheet.

Example row

{
  "keyword": "spotify",
  "country": "us",
  "slot": "organic",
  "rank": 1,
  "appId": 324684580,
  "name": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "shortName": "Spotify",
  "subtitle": "Songs, Playlists & Audiobooks",
  "developerId": 324684583,
  "developerName": "Spotify",
  "primaryGenre": "Music",
  "primaryGenreId": 6011,
  "icon": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../AppIcon/512x0w.png",
  "ratingScore": 4.8,
  "ratingCount": 41049614,
  "priceFormatted": "Free",
  "priceAmountMinor": 0,
  "priceCurrency": "USD",
  "priceDiscount": false,
  "hasInAppPurchases": false,
  "hasAds": true,
  "supportsArcade": false,
  "hasAchievements": false,
  "supportedDevices": ["appletv", "watch", "iphone", "ipad"],
  "releaseDate": "2011-07-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "deletedInStoreAt": null,
  "_fetchedAt": "2026-07-24T11:22:22.856Z"
}

Fields

Field	Description
keyword, country	The query and storefront that produced this row
slot	organic or ad
rank	1-based position within its slot
appId, name, shortName, subtitle	App identity
developerId, developerName	Publisher
primaryGenre, primaryGenreId	Apple category
ratingScore, ratingCount	Aggregate star rating and number of ratings
priceFormatted, priceAmountMinor, priceCurrency, priceDiscount	Pricing (priceAmountMinor is in minor units, e.g. cents)
hasInAppPurchases, hasAds, supportsArcade, hasAchievements	Store flags
supportedDevices, releaseDate	Device support, first-release date
icon	Ready-to-use icon image URL, sized to iconWidth (default 512px)
_fetchedAt	When the row was captured (ISO 8601)

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Exporting & integrating

Results land in a standard Apify dataset, so you can:

• Download as CSV, JSON, Excel, XML, or RSS from the run's Storage tab.
• Fetch via API — pull the dataset programmatically with the Apify API or clients.
• Automate — schedule runs, or connect to Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, and more.

Pricing

This Actor is pay per result — you're charged per row it returns, with no platform usage or compute to reason about. Use resultsPerKeyword and maxResults to control exactly how many rows (and how much spend) each run produces.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or an account anywhere? No. Just provide keywords and run it — billing is handled through Apify.

How is this different from the free iTunes Search API? You get the ranking and Apple's paid-ad slot and a full listing snapshot per result, in a stable, flat schema — no HTML parsing, storefront juggling, or undocumented quirks.

Can I search outside the US? Yes — put any ISO country codes in countries (e.g. ["us","gb","de","jp"]). Apple ranks per storefront, so the same keyword returns different orders per country.

What are the "ad" rows? Apple inserts a sponsored (Apple Search Ads) result above organic results for many queries. Those come back with slot: "ad". Set includeAds: false to skip them.

How many results can I get per keyword? Up to 50 organic results per keyword (Apple's maximum), plus any sponsored slot.