Apple App Store Search – iTunes API Metadata & Keywords

iTunes App Store Search looks up iOS, iPad and Mac apps through Apple’s official iTunes Search and Lookup APIs. Get titles, ratings, prices, genres, bundle IDs, screenshots and store URLs for keyword research, ASO and competitor watchlists.

✅ Pay per result: $1 per 1,000 apps · 🆓 Failed queries are never charged · 🔑 No API key · 🚫 No review scraping

▶ Try it with one click · 📄 Real example output · 💲 Pricing · 🔌 API & integrations · ❓ FAQ · 🛟 Support

What does it do?

• 🔍 Keyword search across App Store storefronts (155+ countries via country)
• 🆔 Lookup by track ID or bundle ID
• 📊 Metadata – rating, rating count, price, genre, version, release dates, file size
• 🖼️ Screenshot and artwork URLs from the API
• 🔁 Dedupes by trackId across terms
• 🚫 Does not scrape user reviews – only fields Apple exposes on Search/Lookup

Use cases

• ASO / marketers – rank-watch keywords and competitor metadata
• Analysts – bulk enrich a sheet of bundle IDs
• Agents – “search App Store for X in US/UK” as one tool call

How to use it

1. Click Try for free – searches weather and notes, and looks up com.apple.weather.
2. Set country (e.g. gb) and limitPerTerm as needed.
3. Download the dataset.

Input example

{
  "terms": ["weather", "notes"],
  "bundleIds": ["com.apple.weather"],
  "country": "us",
  "limitPerTerm": 3,
  "maxApps": 10
}

Output example (from a real public run)

{
  "source": "search",
  "trackId": 1069514657,
  "bundleId": "com.apple.weather",
  "trackName": "Weather",
  "artistName": "Apple",
  "averageUserRating": 3.7,
  "userRatingCount": 120000,
  "price": 0,
  "primaryGenreName": "Weather",
  "query": "weather"
}

How much does it cost?

Event	Free / Bronze	Silver	Gold+
Actor start	$0.0005	$0.0005	$0.0005
App result	$0.001	$0.0008	$0.0006

Failed Search/Lookup calls are free.

Job	Approx. cost
Prefill (~5–10 apps)	≈ $0.005–0.01 + $0.0005 start
1,000 apps	$1.00

Integrations (API, AI agents, Make, Zapier)

Call via Apify API or connect to Make/Zapier/n8n. Official Apple endpoints only — no browser, no proxies.

FAQ

Do I need an Apple API key? No. iTunes Search and Lookup are public HTTP APIs.

Reviews? This Actor does not scrape or paginate user reviews. Rating aggregates come from the official Lookup/Search payload only.

Mac / iPad? Set entity to macSoftware or iPadSoftware.

Support, reliability and feature requests

Open an Issue on the Actor page. Built by Chris Elder with AI-assisted development; every release is reviewed and tested.

Need the data done for you?

If you'd rather not set up runs yourself, the UK company behind these tools (GPT Shop Ltd) offers a fixed-price done-for-you scrape. Tell us the website and the fields you need, and you get a clean CSV or Google Sheet within 48 hours of the confirmed brief, up to 5,000 rows, for £149 or $179. If we can't get the data, you're refunded in full. See the done-for-you scraper service