App Store Reviews Scraper

Search the Apple App Store by keyword and get the reviews of the matching apps as structured rows — rating, title, body, author and app identity.

Apple shows reviews a handful at a time behind a "more" control and offers no public export. This Actor does the searching and paging for you and hands back a table.

Input

Field	Default	What it does
searchTerms	a sample list	Keywords to search the store with; each is searched separately
maxAppsPerTerm	10	How many matching apps to take per keyword
maxReviewsPerApp	20	How many reviews to pull from each app

{ "searchTerms": ["invoice app", "booking system"], "maxAppsPerTerm": 5, "maxReviewsPerApp": 20 }

Total rows are roughly terms × maxAppsPerTerm × maxReviewsPerApp, so raise the multipliers deliberately.

Output

One row per review:

Field	Type	Example
appId	integer	1240314505
appName	string	Groomit On-Demand Grooming
url	string	https://apps.apple.com/app/id1240314505
reviewId	integer	14370393171
reviewTitle	string	Owner of Funny Farm Rescue
text	string	the review body
rating	integer	1–5
score	integer	same as rating, kept for cross-source sorting
author	string	reviewer's public display name
title	string	[5★] Owner of Funny Farm Rescue — rating-prefixed for scanning
date	string	ISO 8601
extra_searchTerm	string	which keyword produced this row
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of capture

What it is good for

• Competitor research — the one- and two-star reviews of the apps in your category are a list of things people want and are not getting.
• Feature demand — repeated wording across unrelated apps is a stronger signal than any single review.
• Positioning — the words customers use for the problem are the words to use back at them.

Sort by rating ascending and read the bottom first; that is where the information is.

Notes and limits

• Reviews come from Apple's public RSS feed per app, which returns recent reviews rather than the complete history. Treat a run as a current sample.
• Coverage is the store Apple serves this client; results can differ by storefront and over time.
• author is the reviewer's public display name, published by Apple alongside the review. No e-mail addresses, account identifiers or private profile data are collected. If you process these rows in the EU, remember a display name can still be personal data and treat the file accordingly.