# Apple App Store Scraper - Search, Charts & App Details (`bridged/app-store-apps-api`) Actor

Pulls app metadata, search results, top charts and developer catalogues from Apple's official iTunes Search/Lookup and App Store marketing-tools APIs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bridged/app-store-apps-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Zihan Poh](https://apify.com/bridged) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.50 / 1,000 apps

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

## 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

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

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

### Output (one row per app)

```json
{
  "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](https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-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](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development#build-actor-locally). To run the Actor use the following command:

```bash
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](https://console.apify.com/actors/new)
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](https://console.apify.com/account/integrations) to complete this action.

   ```bash
   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](https://console.apify.com/actors?tab=my).

   ```bash
   apify push
   ```

### Documentation reference

To learn more about Apify and Actors, take a look at the following resources:

- [Apify SDK for Python documentation](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python)
- [Apify Platform documentation](https://docs.apify.com/platform)
- [Join our developer community on Discord](https://discord.com/invite/jyEM2PRvMU)

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search: free-text query. lookup: specific app IDs/bundle IDs/URLs. charts: top-free/top-paid/top-grossing per genre. developer: all apps by a developer.

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Search terms (mode=search).

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

trackIds, bundleIds, or App Store URLs (mode=lookup).

## `developerIds` (type: `array`):

artistIds or App Store developer URLs (mode=developer).

## `chart` (type: `string`):

Which chart to fetch (mode=charts).

## `genreId` (type: `integer`):

App Store genre id for charts, e.g. 6015 = Finance, 6014 = Games. Omit for all genres.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter App Store storefront codes, e.g. us, gb, sg.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Cap on results per query/chart/developer (Apple caps search at 200).

## `includeScreenshots` (type: `boolean`):

Include screenshotUrls / ipadScreenshotUrls fields on each result.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Include the app's full description text on each result.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": [
    "budget planner"
  ],
  "chart": "top-free",
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "includeScreenshots": true,
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "queries": [
        "budget planner"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bridged/app-store-apps-api").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 = {
    "queries": ["budget planner"],
    "countries": ["us"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bridged/app-store-apps-api").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "budget planner"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ]
}' |
apify call bridged/app-store-apps-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/W3XDKSh0Jkzuh6pis/builds/8Z6ggxb9p9zcwWztk/openapi.json