# GetApp Software Database — Star Breakdown & Reviews (`crawlyard/getapp-database`) Actor

B2B software products listed on GetApp, by category, with average rating, review count and the full 1-5 star breakdown per product. Served from a pre-collected database, so results return in under a second instead of a live crawl.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/crawlyard/getapp-database.md
- **Developed by:** [Crawlyard Data](https://apify.com/crawlyard) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $25.00 / 30-day access pass

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?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## GetApp Software Database — Star Breakdown & Reviews

**142,269 products across 1,020+ GetApp categories** — every B2B software product, organised by category, with average
rating, review count and — unlike any live scraper — the **full 1–5 star
breakdown** for every product, straight from GetApp's own data.

"Rated 4.7 on average" and "7,247 five-star reviews vs 4 one-star" are different
facts. The breakdown is what supports complaint-rate and churn-risk analysis,
competitive positioning and market maps.

### Why it is fast

The data is collected in advance and served from a pre-built store. A query is a
lookup, not a crawl, so results return in under a second and never fail on an
anti-bot challenge.

### Input

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `category` | GetApp category, name or slug. Empty searches every category. |
| `search` | Free-text filter over product, tagline, description and features |
| `minRating` | GetApp scores out of 5; keep products at or above this |
| `minReviews` | Drop products with fewer reviews |
| `categoryLeadersOnly` | Only products GetApp marks as category leaders |
| `sortBy` | `reviews` (default) or `rating` |
| `limit` | `0` returns everything that matches |

### Output

`product`, `tagline`, `category`, `rating` (out of 5), `reviewCount`,
`stars5`…`stars1`, `isCategoryLeader`, `features`, `url`, `description`.

### Pricing

**30-day access pass.** Your first successful run charges a one-time pass; every run for the next 30 days is then free — query the database as often as you like. Nothing is charged if the pass cannot be issued.

# Actor input Schema

## `category` (type: `string`):

GetApp category, as a name or slug — e.g. "Project Management" or "project-management". Leave empty to search across every category.

## `search` (type: `string`):

Free-text filter over product name, tagline, description and feature list.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

GetApp scores products out of 5. Only products at or above this score are returned.

## `minReviews` (type: `integer`):

Drop products with fewer reviews than this.

## `categoryLeadersOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only products GetApp marks as category leaders.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Ordering of the returned products.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum products to return. 0 returns everything (large categories can be thousands of rows).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "category": "project-management",
  "categoryLeadersOnly": false,
  "sortBy": "reviews",
  "limit": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `products` (type: `string`):

Matching products with star breakdowns as JSON.

## `productsCsv` (type: `string`):

Same result set exported as CSV.

# 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 = {
    "category": "crm"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("crawlyard/getapp-database").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 = { "category": "crm" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("crawlyard/getapp-database").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 '{
  "category": "crm"
}' |
apify call crawlyard/getapp-database --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,crawlyard/getapp-database"
        }
    }
}

```

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/TgdVsHMTZ7J9d8g1x/builds/VUNJNQQBTw0puAV4N/openapi.json