# Shopify App Store Scraper - Apps, Rankings & Reviews (`blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Shopify App Store apps, category rankings, pricing plans and merchant reviews. Incremental review monitoring. Pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Tyler Rubino](https://apify.com/blacksheepx) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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

## Shopify App Store Scraper: Apps, Category Rankings & Reviews

Scrape the **Shopify App Store** (apps.shopify.com) into clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Pull **app details** (name, developer, rating, review count, pricing plans, categories, launch date), **category rankings** (organic position, sponsored ads excluded), and **merchant reviews** (stars, date, text, store name, country, time using the app, developer reply). The incremental "only newer than" mode makes it cheap to monitor apps on a schedule.

### What can this Shopify App Store scraper do?

- 🏆 **Track category rankings.** Give it any category URL and get the top N apps with their organic rank. Sponsored cards are filtered out.
- 📦 **Scrape app profiles.** Developer, rating, total reviews, every pricing plan, free-plan flag, categories and launch date.
- ⭐ **Scrape reviews.** Newest first, with rating, date, text, store name as shown, country, usage time and developer reply.
- 🔁 **Incremental monitoring.** Set `reviewsNewerThan`. The run stops at the first older review, so you only pay for new reviews.
- 🔎 **Keyword discovery.** Search terms are matched against Shopify's public app sitemap.
- 🤝 **Polite and compliant.** Obeys robots.txt and limits request rate. No logins and no proxies needed. Emails and phone numbers are stripped from text.

### Use cases

Competitor monitoring for Shopify app developers, churn and complaint mining, app-idea validation, agency and investor portfolio tracking, and feeding fresh app-market data into AI agents and dashboards.

### How much does it cost?

Pay per result, with no subscription and no start fee:
| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| App scraped | $0.002 (= $2 per 1,000 apps) |
| Review scraped | $0.0002 (= $0.20 per 1,000 reviews) |

Example: ranking the top 50 apps in a category plus 20 new reviews each comes to 50 × $0.002 + 1,000 × $0.0002 = **$0.30**. Set a max charge in the run options and the scraper stops cleanly at that limit.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `appUrls` | App pages, e.g. `https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme` |
| `categoryUrls` | Category pages, e.g. `https://apps.shopify.com/categories/marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews` |
| `searchTerms` | Keywords, e.g. `loyalty` |
| `maxAppsPerCategory` / `maxAppsPerSearchTerm` | Limits |
| `includeReviews`, `maxReviewsPerApp` | Review options |
| `reviewsNewerThan` | `YYYY-MM-DD`; only newer reviews are saved and charged |

```json
{ "categoryUrls": [{ "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/categories/marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews" }],
  "maxAppsPerCategory": 30, "includeReviews": true, "maxReviewsPerApp": 20, "reviewsNewerThan": "2026-10-01" }
```

### Output

App item:

```json
{ "type": "app", "name": "Judge.me Product Reviews App", "handle": "judgeme", "developer": "Judge.me", "rating": 5, "reviewCount": 48615,
  "pricingPlans": [{ "name": "Forever Free", "price": "Free" }, { "name": "Awesome", "price": "$15 / month" }], "hasFreePlan": true,
  "categories": [{ "name": "Product reviews", "slug": "marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews" }],
  "categoryRank": 1, "rankCategory": "marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews", "launched": "June 25, 2015" }
```

Review item:

```json
{ "type": "review", "appHandle": "judgeme", "reviewId": "2397556", "rating": 5, "date": "2026-10-16", "text": "Superschneller Support, Top !",
  "storeName": "AS-TecDive", "country": "Germany", "usageDuration": "5 days using the app", "developerReply": null }
```

The dataset has two views, **Apps** and **Reviews**. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or use the API, webhooks, Make, Zapier or n8n.

### FAQ

**Is scraping the Shopify App Store legal?** The scraper collects only publicly visible listing data, obeys robots.txt, and never logs in. Reviews show the store name exactly as Shopify publishes it. Emails and phone numbers in text are removed. Use the data in line with Shopify's terms and the laws that apply to you.
**Why aren't search terms run through Shopify's search page?** robots.txt disallows search URLs (`q=`), so we match terms against the public sitemap instead.
**Some reviews have empty text?** Those are star-only reviews. Shopify shows no text for them.
**Problems or feature requests?** Open an issue on the Issues tab and we usually reply within a day.

# Actor input Schema

## `appUrls` (type: `array`):

Shopify App Store app pages, e.g. https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme

## `categoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Category pages, e.g. https://apps.shopify.com/categories/marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews. Apps come out with their rank in the category.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords matched against app names/handles in the public Shopify apps sitemap (the on-site search page is disallowed by robots.txt, so we don't use it).

## `maxAppsPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

Top N apps by category rank (24 per page).

## `maxAppsPerSearchTerm` (type: `integer`):

Max apps returned for each search term.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also scrape merchant reviews (newest first).

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Max reviews per app.

## `reviewsNewerThan` (type: `string`):

Only reviews posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) are saved and charged. Good for scheduled monitoring.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel requests. Keep low to be polite.

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

Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme"
    }
  ],
  "maxAppsPerCategory": 24,
  "maxAppsPerSearchTerm": 10,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

No description

## `reviews` (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 = {
    "appUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-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 = { "appUrls": [{ "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-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 '{
  "appUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,blacksheepx/shopify-app-store-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/hcidIpWeluOlt7oRz/builds/psoSxKh1xhCTh9AbG/openapi.json