App Store Search Scraper

一、What's this?

• AppStore Search Scraper is an important tool for crawling AppStore application details.
• It offers rich and comprehensive application information at a reasonable price.
• It can be used for competitive analysis, market research, etc., and is very suitable for product managers, data analysts, marketers and developers to use.

二、Input & Output Struct

1、Input

• id: The application ID or developer ID on the AppStore，For example: 6448311069
• url: Application url, or developer url, For example: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069
• keyword: Search keywords, For Example: TikTok
• country: Country code, For example: us, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
• limit: The maximum number of apps to scrape

Note:

• At least one of the three parameters, id, url, and keyword, must be provided
• If an id or url is provided, search using the id or url first; otherwise, search using the keyword

Get the app url:

• Obtain it through the search page of the App Store
• Open App Store 官网.
• Search for the target application (such as "ChatGPT").
• Click on the target application in the search results.
• Copy the URL directly from the browser's address bar, and it will be the link to the application page.

Get the Developer url:

• Enter from the application page.
• Open the detail page of any developer's application (such as ChatGPT).
• Below the application name, the developer name (for example, "OpenAI") will be displayed.
• Clicking on the developer's name will redirect you to the developer's homepage.
• The link in the browser's address bar is the developer's URL.

2、Output Struct

{
  "app_id": 364709193,
  "app_name": "Apple Books",
  "censored_name": "Apple Books",
  "primary_genre_name": "Book",
  "developer_id": 284417353,
  "developer_name": "Apple",
  "developer_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/apple/id284417353",
  "screenshot_urls": [
    "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/9e/7e/24/9e7e241d-81cd-1965-468c-4eec4059be4e/5f489552-15c6-43f1-ae61-c161b03636fd_Books-iPhone5p5-iOS17-USEN-Wrapper1.png/392x696bb.png",
  ],
  "app_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-books/id364709193?uo=4",
  "content_advisory_rating": "12+",
  "average_user_rating": 4.39357,
  "genres": [
    "Books",
    "Entertainment"
  ],
  "price": 0.0,
  "formatted_price": "Free",
  "bundle_id": "com.apple.iBooks",
  "is_vpp_device_based_licensing_enabled": true,
  "release_date": "2010-04-02T04:36:45Z",
  "release_notes": "Bug Fixes and Feature Enhancements",
  "seller_name": "Apple Inc.",
  "current_version_release_date": "2025-09-30T21:48:30Z",
  "version": "5.2.1",
  "currency": "USD",
  "description": "xxxx",
  "average_user_rating_for_current_version": 4.39357,
  "user_rating_count_for_current_version": 67297,
  "website_url": "http://apple.com/apple-books/",
  "language_codes_iso2a": [
    "AR"
  ],
  "file_size_bytes": "11704320",
  "track_content_rating": "12+",
  "minimum_os_version": "10.0",
  "user_rating_count": 67297,
  "icon_url_60": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/9c/d2/9e/9cd29eb6-4315-abb6-6de4-9ec1079b9828/books-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-85-220.png/60x60bb.jpg",
  "icon_url_100": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/9c/d2/9e/9cd29eb6-4315-abb6-6de4-9ec1079b9828/books-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-85-220.png/100x100bb.jpg",
  "icon_url_512": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/9c/d2/9e/9cd29eb6-4315-abb6-6de4-9ec1079b9828/books-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-85-220.png/512x512bb.jpg",
  "is_game_center_enabled": false,
  "advisories": [
    "Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity",
  ],
  "supported_devices": [
    "iPhone5s-iPhone5s"
  ]
}

三、How to use the crawled data?

1. Application Intelligence Analysis (App Intelligence Market Monitoring

• What can be done:
  • Obtain information such as the name, description, release date, version number, developer, and category of the application;
  • Analyze the listing time, update frequency and functional iteration rhythm of different apps;
  • Track the listing and update status of competing products.
• Application scenarios:
  • Market research: Tracking the iteration cycles and version changes of competing products;
  • Industry Report: Statistics on the number and types of new applications on the App Store.

2. User review and rating analysis

• What can be done:
  • The API contains fields such as average_user_rating and user_rating_count;
  • You can conduct text sentiment analysis by combining the reviews interface (through other review grabs), see: App Store Reviews Scraper
  • Analyze rating trends, hotspots of user feedback, functional satisfaction, etc.
• Application scenarios:
  • Product improvement: Identify user pain points based on changes in ratings or keywords in comments;
  • Competitive analysis: Compare the ratings and user reviews of similar applications.

3. Aggregation and analysis of developer information

• What can be done:
  • Obtain the developer's homepage by returning the developer_id and developer_url in the data;
  • All the apps under the developer's name can be further crawled through the API.
  • Analyze the developer's product layout, release frequency, and distribution of application types.
• Application scenarios:
  • Analysis of competing developers
  • Investment and M&A analysis (assessing developer activity and product portfolio).

4. App Store Optimization (ASO)

• What can be done:
  • Extract the content from description, censored_name, primary_genre_name;
  • Analyze the key words in the title and description;
  • Analyze the visual presentation strategy by combining screenshots (screenshot_urls).
• Application scenarios:
  • Optimize the title and description of your App to improve its search ranking.
  • Analyze the keyword layout of popular apps.

5. Automated monitoring and notification system

(Add a common but overlooked use 👇)

• What can be done:
  • Monitor the version and release_date fields;
  • When a version update is detected, it will be automatically pushed to Slack, DingTalk or email.
• Application scenarios:
  • Track updates from competing products;
  • Monitor whether your company's products are smoothly listed and updated.

四、Application integration and expansion

This is due to the integration capabilities provided by the Apify platform. You can integrate the obtained data with other applications, including the following:

• Instagram
• TikTok
• Facebook
• Telegram
• Slack
• and more

五、Feedback

We will always iterate its functions, including launching new features and fixing known bugs. If you encounter any problems during use, please create an issue in the Issues section in a timely manner, and we will follow up and solve it promptly.

六、Q&A

1、Is data crawling legal?

Our Actor adheres to ethical standards and does not extract any private user data, such as email addresses, gender or location. It will only extract the publicly available data on the platform and will not extract non-public private data. However, you should be aware that your results may contain publicly available user data. Personal data is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union and other laws and regulations around the world. Please do not use the data for illegal purposes. If you are unsure whether the usage scenario is legal, please consult your lawyer.