App Store Apps API

Pulls app metadata, search results, top charts and developer catalogues from Apple's own iTunes Search/Lookup API and App Store marketing-tools feeds — no scraping, no login, official documented endpoints.

Why this exists

Most App Store actors on the store only cover reviews, and full-scope metadata actors charge $3.45 per 1,000 app details — 7x what this actor charges for data that costs one API call per up to 200 apps. Search, charts, and "all apps by a developer" are underserved: most competitors require you to already know the app you want.

Modes

• search — free-text query, e.g. "budget planner"
• lookup — specific apps by trackId, bundleId, or App Store URL
• developer — every app published by a developer (artistId or developer URL)
• charts — Top Free / Top Paid / Top Grossing, optionally scoped to one genre (e.g. Finance)

Input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["budget planner", "habit tracker"],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
}

{
  "mode": "charts",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "genreId": 6015,
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 100
}

Output (one row per app)

{
  "appId": 123456789,
  "bundleId": "com.x.y",
  "name": "Example App",
  "developerId": 456,
  "developerName": "Example Studio",
  "country": "us",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "primaryGenre": "Finance",
  "averageRating": 4.7,
  "ratingCount": 12345,
  "version": "5.2.1",
  "releaseDate": "2022-05-22T07:00:00Z",
  "description": "...",
  "iconUrl": "https://...",
  "screenshotUrls": ["https://..."],
  "storeUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/example/id123456789",
  "query": "budget planner",
  "rank": 3,
  "chart": null
}

Pricing

Pay-per-result: one app event per row returned. $0.50 per 1,000 apps, no start fee.

Data source and legality

All data comes from Apple's own documented public web services: iTunes Search/Lookup API and the App Store marketing-tools charts feed. apps.apple.com itself disallows automated access in its robots.txt — this actor never touches it, only itunes.apple.com and rss.marketingtools.apple.com. Artwork/screenshot URLs are returned as links to Apple's own CDN, never re-hosted, per Apple's promotional-asset guidelines. Developer/seller names are business data; no reviewer or end-user personal data is collected.

Getting started

For complete information see this article. To run the Actor use the following command:

$apify run

Deploy to Apify

Connect Git repository to Apify

If you've created a Git repository for the project, you can easily connect to Apify:

1. Go to Actor creation page
2. Click on Link Git Repository button

Push project on your local machine to Apify

You can also deploy the project on your local machine to Apify without the need for the Git repository.

1. Log in to Apify. You will need to provide your Apify API Token to complete this action.

   $apify login
   

2. Deploy your Actor. This command will deploy and build the Actor on the Apify Platform. You can find your newly created Actor under Actors -> My Actors.

   $apify push
   

Documentation reference

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