App Store Charts Scraper — Top Free, Paid & Grossing | $1/1K | No Key

ASO managers, app publishers, and mobile market analysts use this actor to track weekly chart movements, discover trending apps before they peak, and monitor competitor positions across countries.

$1.00 per 1,000 chart entries. A full 200-app chart costs $0.20. All 3 chart types across 10 countries = $0.60 total.

Worked example:

• Top 100 Free Apps (US) = 100 entries → $0.10
• Full 200-entry chart (any type, any country) → $0.20
• All 3 charts × 10 countries × 200 entries = 6,000 entries → $6.00

200 apps per chart — Apple's RSS supports up to 200 entries, more than any other source.

Top Grossing = revenue intelligence. The Grossing chart is the best proxy for app subscription/IAP revenue — investors and developers use it for competitive due diligence.

Scrape Apple App Store top charts: Top Free, Top Paid, or Top Grossing apps for any country. Uses Apple's open iTunes RSS API — no API key required. Pay per result.

Sample output

{
  "rank": 1,
  "app_id": "544007664",
  "name": "YouTube",
  "developer": "Google LLC",
  "category": "Photo & Video",
  "price": 0.0,
  "chart_type": "free",
  "country": "us",
  "icon_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/...",
  "parse_confidence": 1.0
}

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What you get

Field	Description
rank	Position in the chart (1 = #1)
app_id	Numeric Apple app ID
bundle_id	Reverse-DNS bundle ID (e.g. com.company.app)
name	App name
developer	Developer/artist name
developer_url	Developer's App Store page
category	Primary category (e.g. Games, Productivity)
category_id	Apple category ID
price	Price in local currency (0.0 for free)
currency	ISO 4217 currency code
url	App Store URL
icon_url	App icon URL (largest available)
summary	Short app description
release_date	Original release date (ISO 8601)
chart_type	"free", "paid", or "grossing"
country	Storefront country code
parse_confidence	Data quality score 0.0–1.0

Usage

{
  "chartType": "free",
  "country": "us",
  "limit": 100
}

Filter by category (Games = 6014):

{
  "chartType": "grossing",
  "country": "gb",
  "limit": 50,
  "genreId": 6014
}

Chart types

Value	Chart
free	Top Free Apps
paid	Top Paid Apps
grossing	Top Grossing Apps

FAQ

Do I need an API key or proxy? No. Apple's iTunes RSS chart feed is fully public — no auth, no proxy, zero setup.

What formats can I export? JSON, CSV, Excel, or JSONL — from the Apify dataset UI or REST API.

Can I schedule it to track weekly chart movements? Yes. Use Apify Scheduler to run weekly per country. Pair with a webhook to Slack or Google Sheets to build a chart-position history automatically.

What if it returns empty results? Apple's RSS occasionally returns an empty feed for certain country/genre combinations. The actor logs a warning and exits cleanly — no data is charged. Try the us storefront first to verify your genreId.

Limits

• Up to 200 apps per chart per country
• Supports all App Store country storefronts (us, gb, de, jp, au, ca, fr, etc.)
• Real-time data directly from Apple's RSS feed

vs. alternatives

Feature	This actor	Sensor Tower	AppFollow	AppMagic
Bulk multi-country charts	✅	✅	✅	✅
Grossing chart (revenue proxy)	✅	✅	✅	✅
Structured JSON output	✅	via API	via API	via API
Pay-per-use (no subscription)	✅	❌	❌	❌
Cost	$1/1K	$99+/mo	$99+/mo	$99+/mo

(Verify competitor prices at publish time — adjust table accordingly.)

parse_confidence — every record carries a 0.0–1.0 data quality score. Score < 0.5 → check the warnings field.

Also see: ASO Keyword Rank Tracker — track keyword-level rankings, not just chart positions.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

All actors in this suite are available via the Apify MCP server. Connect to Claude, GPT-4o, or n8n to let AI agents pull live App Store data on demand — market research, competitor monitoring, and ASO tracking automated end-to-end.

MCP config: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/appstore-charts

Also in this suite

• Apple App Store Scraper — full metadata + reviews
• Google Play Store Scraper — Android ecosystem
• App Store Reviews Scraper — reviews-only, bulk NLP use case
• ASO Keyword Rank Tracker — ranking intelligence, 10× cheaper than Sensor Tower
• iOS App Update Tracker — version monitoring

Integrations

Built for ASO managers and mobile market analysts tracking chart positions and top-grossing revenue signals by country — the JSON/dataset output drops into the tools you already run, no glue code:

• n8n / Make / Zapier — trigger a run or pipe every new dataset item into 500+ apps (Google Sheets, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, your database) with no code: n8n, Make, Zapier.
• Webhooks — fire your own endpoint the moment a run finishes, to push results straight into your pipeline (docs).
• MCP server — expose this actor as a tool to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client so an AI agent can pull this data mid-conversation (guide).
• API & SDKs — fetch the dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel through the Apify REST API or the Python / JS SDKs.

See all Apify integrations.