# App Store Reviews Scraper — Ratings & Metadata, Any Locale (`axery/app-store-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Get app metadata and customer reviews from Apple's own official, public, key-free endpoints - no scraping, no login, per-storefront review coverage.

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

## Pricing

from $0.36 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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

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# README

## Apple App Store Reviews Scraper

Gets customer reviews and app metadata from the **Apple App Store** over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no App Store Connect account, no API key.

### Not a scrape — official Apple endpoints only

This Actor wraps two of Apple's own public, unauthenticated endpoints:

- **iTunes Search API** (`itunes.apple.com/search`, `/lookup`) — resolves an app name to its metadata: rating average, price, category, screenshots, current version.
- **Apple's public customer-reviews feed** (`itunes.apple.com/{country}/rss/customerreviews/...`) — the same Atom feed Apple itself serves, requested as JSON.

Both are read directly from Apple's CDN. No key, no rate-limit friction encountered in testing.

### What makes this different

**Fields are unwrapped, not left as raw Atom-JSON noise.** Apple's feed wraps every value as `{"label": "..."}` — a side effect of the feed being repurposed Atom XML rather than a JSON API designed from scratch. This Actor unwraps it consistently, so `rating` is a plain integer and `content` is a plain string, not nested objects you have to dig through.

**Reviews are per-storefront, and that's surfaced, not hidden.** The same app has entirely separate reviews in the `us`, `gb`, `id` (and every other) App Store, in the reviewer's own language — there is no combined "all countries" call. Run this Actor once per storefront you care about; each run's `country` field on every row makes that explicit.

### Input

| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `appName` | string | App name as you'd search it on the App Store. Ignored if `appId` is set. |
| `appId` | string | Apple's numeric app id — the number in an App Store URL. More precise than a name search. |
| `country` | string | Two-letter storefront code, e.g. `us`, `gb`, `id`, `jp`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Apple's feed is capped at 50/page and tends to run dry within a few hundred reviews. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Not needed — official endpoints, no anti-bot layer. |

### Known limits

- **Review depth is finite.** Apple's own feed does not expose a documented total-page count and tends to run empty within a few hundred reviews for most apps, regardless of the app's total review count shown on its store page.
- **Reviewer names are pseudonyms**, not real identities — that is how Apple itself presents them.

### Local development

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
python test_local.py whatsapp --max 20 --out sample_output.json
python test_local.py --app-id 310633997 --country gb --max 10
```

`sample_output.json` in this folder is real output from a live run, kept so the schema can be reviewed without running anything.

# Actor input Schema

## `appName` (type: `string`):

The app's name as you'd search for it on the App Store. Ignored if `appId` is set.

## `appId` (type: `string`):

Apple's numeric app id (the `trackId`/`id` in an App Store URL, e.g. the 310633997 in apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997). Use this instead of `appName` when you need the exact app, not a name-search guess.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter App Store country code, e.g. `us`, `gb`, `id`, `jp`. Reviews are entirely separate per storefront - run this once per country you need.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum reviews to return. Apple's own feed is capped at 50 per page and tends to run dry within a few hundred reviews for most apps - the Actor stops cleanly when the feed goes empty.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy settings. Apple's iTunes API is public, but Apify's own container IP range can still be rate-limited or blocked by services that treat cloud IPs as suspicious regardless of any WAF - defaults to Residential as a precaution.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appName": "whatsapp",
  "appId": "310633997",
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

One row per review.

# 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 = {
    "appName": "whatsapp",
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/app-store-reviews-scraper").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 = {
    "appName": "whatsapp",
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/app-store-reviews-scraper").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 '{
  "appName": "whatsapp",
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call axery/app-store-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/1EN9ARP8wvHJx1lbw/builds/6xCBO5ffBbRkiAc1q/openapi.json