Shopify App Store Reviews & Competitor Churn Email Leads Scraper

Extract 1-star and 2-star competitor reviews from apps.shopify.com (Klaviyo, Gorgias, Recharge, Yotpo, Omnisend, Printful & any Shopify app) and automatically resolve live merchant storefronts, verified founder/store emails, phones, and social links.

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High-ROI B2B, Agency & AI Workflows

• Competitor Churn Sniping for E-Commerce SaaS: Find active Shopify brands who just left a 1-star review complaining about Klaviyo pricing, Gorgias support, or Recharge bugs — complete with their exact complaint text and verified store email.
• Shopify Retention, CRO & Email Marketing Agencies: Pitch Klaviyo/email/CRO retainers to verified Shopify Plus & DTC brands actively struggling with their marketing apps.
• Product & GTM Competitive Intelligence: Categorize thousands of competitor app reviews by country, merchant app tenure ("Over 2 years using the app"), star rating, and churn triggers.
• Country-Aware Storefront Resolver: Automatically matches merchant brand names & countries (US, UK, AU, CA, etc.) to verified Shopify.theme / cdn.shopify.com domains with zero search-engine CAPTCHAs.

Architecture & Cost Advantage (256MB Zero-Proxy Engine)

• Zero Residential Proxy Markup: Engineered with lightweight TLS/session requests so you do not need expensive residential proxy add-ons just to test or scale runs.
• Ultra-Low 256MB Compute Footprint: Runs cleanly inside a 256MB container (16x less platform memory overhead than 4GB headless-browser scrapers) with incremental dataset streaming and graceful timeout protection.
• Pay-Per-Event Transparency: You only pay a tiny startup fee plus each structured dataset result delivered — with automatic volume discounts up to 60%–70% off on Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond Apify plans.

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
apps	array	["klaviyo-email-marketing"]	List of Shopify App Store URLs or app slugs (e.g. ['klaviyo-email-marketing', 'https://apps.shopify.com/gorgias', 'yotpo-social-reviews']).
starRatings	array	[1, 2]	Star ratings to include (1 to 5). Use [1, 2] to target unhappy merchants ready to switch tools, or [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] for all reviews.
sortBy	string	"newest"	Sort reviews by newest first ('newest') or relevance ('relevance').
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	15	Maximum number of merchant reviews to extract per Shopify app.
resolveMerchantContacts	boolean	true	Automatically discovers each reviewing merchant's live storefront URL and crawls /pages/contact & /contact for verified business emails, phone numbers, and social profiles.
onlyWithEmail	boolean	false	When enabled, filters output to merchants where at least one deliverable contact email was resolved.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Optional proxy settings. Works out-of-the-box with direct connections at 256MB.

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Sample Output Dataset Item

{
  "appSlug": "klaviyo-email-marketing",
  "merchantName": "Dr Gus Nutrition",
  "merchantCountry": "United Kingdom",
  "rating": 1,
  "reviewDate": "October 28, 2026",
  "timeUsedApp": "Over 2 years using the app",
  "reviewBody": "Pricing doubled automatically and support only replies with bots. Moving our list elsewhere.",
  "churnSignals": [
    "pricing_hike",
    "support_frustration",
    "active_switch_intent"
  ],
  "resolvedStoreUrl": "https://drgusnutrition.co.uk",
  "verifiedShopifyStore": true,
  "emails": [
    "paul@drgusnutrition.co.uk"
  ],
  "phones": [],
  "instagramUrl": "https://www.instagram.com/drgusnutrition"
}

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Use as an AI Agent Tool (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf & MCP)

Every Actor in our suite works out-of-the-box with the Apify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server so Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, or custom OpenAI/LangGraph agents can invoke church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper directly during a conversation:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify-b2b-intelligence": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

API Quickstart (Python, Node.js & cURL)

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper").call(run_input={
  "apps": [
    "klaviyo-email-marketing",
    "gorgias"
  ],
  "starRatings": [
    1,
    2
  ],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 10,
  "resolveMerchantContacts": true,
  "onlyWithEmail": false
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

Node.js / TypeScript (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper').call({
  "apps": [
    "klaviyo-email-marketing",
    "gorgias"
  ],
  "starRatings": [
    1,
    2
  ],
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 10,
  "resolveMerchantContacts": true,
  "onlyWithEmail": false
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

n8n, Make.com & Clay Enrichment Setup

1. Clay: Add an Apify — Run Actor enrichment column -> select church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper -> map your row's keyword, handle, or URL -> map returned emails/metrics into downstream cold-email columns (Instantly, Smartlead, Lemlist).
2. n8n / Make.com: Trigger on a schedule (daily/weekly) -> call https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/church_of_loujess~shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN> -> route verified leads directly to HubSpot, Slack, Google Sheets, or Airtable.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Do I need to configure proxies or cookies?

No. church_of_loujess/shopify-app-reviews-leads-scraper works out-of-the-box with zero cookies, zero login credentials, and zero residential proxies required.

Can I export results to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Parquet?

Yes. Every run writes clean, flattened fields plus rich nested metadata to your default Apify Dataset, supporting one-click export to CSV, XLSX, JSON, JSONL, XML, or RSS as well as direct webhook delivery.

What happens on large batch runs near the timeout limit?

All Actors in our portfolio stream results incrementally (pushData) and monitor APIFY_TIMEOUT_AT so completed leads are preserved cleanly without losing partial progress.

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