# App Store Scraper (`dami_studio/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Apple App Store with no key and no anti-bot. Search apps by keyword, or look up apps by trackId/bundleId, and get full metadata: rating, rating count, price, genre, version, description, screenshots, size. Optionally pull customer reviews per app.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dami\_studio/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Dami's Studio](https://apify.com/dami_studio) (community)
- **Categories:** Integrations, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.50 / 1,000 app returneds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

## App Store Scraper

Scrape the **Apple App Store** with no API key and no anti-bot headaches. This actor talks
directly to Apple's public iTunes / App Store JSON endpoints, so results are fast, clean, and
structured — app metadata and customer reviews, ready for analysis.

### What it does

Two modes:

1. **Search** — give a `searchTerm` (e.g. `notion`) and get back matching apps with full
   metadata: name, developer, average rating, rating count, price, genre(s), version, release
   dates, description, App Store URL, artwork, screenshots, minimum OS, content rating, file size.
2. **Look up by ID** — give `appIds` (numeric **trackId**s like `1232780281`, or **bundleId**s
   like `net.shinyfrog.bear`) to fetch those exact apps. Turn on **Include reviews** to also pull
   each app's customer reviews (author, rating 1–5, title, body, app version, date).

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `searchTerm` | string | — | Keyword search. Use this **or** `appIds`. |
| `appIds` | array | `[]` | trackIds and/or bundleIds to look up. |
| `includeReviews` | bool | `false` | Fetch reviews for each app (ID mode only). |
| `maxReviews` | int | `100` | Up to ~500 (Apple serves ~50/page, 10 pages). |
| `reviewsSort` | enum | `mostrecent` | `mostrecent` or `mosthelpful`. |
| `country` | string | `us` | Storefront code: `us`, `gb`, `de`, `jp`, … |
| `maxItems` | int | `50` | Max apps in search mode (Apple caps at 200). |

### Output

One dataset item per app (`ok: true`), with all metadata fields. In ID mode with
`includeReviews`, each app item also carries a `reviews` array and a `reviewsCount`.

Each review: `reviewId`, `author`, `rating`, `title`, `body`, `version`, `voteSum`, `voteCount`,
`updated`.

**Nullable fields:** the row always contains every documented field, but individual values can be
`null` when Apple doesn't provide them for an app — e.g. `averageUserRating`, `userRatingCount`,
`releaseNotes`, `sellerUrl`, `price`/`formattedPrice`, `version`. Treat any field as possibly
`null` rather than assuming completeness.

**Reviews are best-effort.** `reviewsCount` is the number actually fetched. Apple's reviews feed
serves ~50 reviews per page over up to 10 pages, and many apps simply have fewer reviews than your
`maxReviews`. If the feed ends early or a page errors, the actor logs a warning, keeps what it
collected, and still returns the app — so `reviewsCount` may be lower than `maxReviews`. That is
not an error; it usually means there were no more reviews available.

If something goes wrong (bad input, rate limit, network, no results) the actor pushes a single
diagnostic row with `ok: false` and an `errorCode` instead of failing silently — and never charges
for it.

#### Sample output row

```json
{
  "ok": true,
  "trackId": 1232780281,
  "bundleId": "net.shinyfrog.bear",
  "appName": "Bear - Markdown Notes",
  "developer": "Shiny Frog Ltd.",
  "averageUserRating": 4.6,
  "userRatingCount": 18342,
  "price": 0,
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "primaryGenre": "Productivity",
  "version": "2.1",
  "appStoreUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bear-markdown-notes/id1232780281",
  "reviewsCount": 100,
  "reviews": [ { "author": "...", "rating": 5, "title": "...", "body": "..." } ]
}
````

### Pricing

Pay-per-result: charged per **app** row returned (search results or looked-up apps). Diagnostic
and empty rows are never charged.

### Notes

- Apple's legacy customer-reviews RSS feed is occasionally empty for short periods or for apps
  with few recent reviews; the actor handles this gracefully and still returns the app metadata.
- The iTunes APIs are public and unauthenticated, so **no proxy is needed and none is used by
  default**. Only enable a proxy if you hit per-IP rate limits at high volume — routing this public
  API through Apify Proxy otherwise just spends proxy credits for no benefit.

### Troubleshooting

- **`charged` count lower than apps returned?** Every successful app row is charged once; if a
  `charge failed: ...` warning appears in the log, that row was pushed but the billing call failed
  (you were not billed for it). The numbers in the final `Done.` log line (`apps`, `charged`) are
  authoritative.
- **Got a diagnostic row (`ok: false`) instead of apps?** Read its `errorCode`/`error`: `BAD_INPUT`
  means no `searchTerm`/`appIds` (or an invalid country code) — fix the input and rerun. `RATE_LIMITED`
  means lower the volume or enable a proxy. `NO_RESULTS` means the query matched nothing. Diagnostic
  rows are never charged.
- **Fewer reviews than `maxReviews`?** The app simply has fewer reviews available; see "Reviews are
  best-effort" above.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

Keyword to search the App Store for (e.g. "notion", "habit tracker"). Returns matching apps with full metadata. Leave empty if you are looking up specific apps by ID instead.

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Look up specific apps by numeric trackId (e.g. "1232780281") or bundleId (e.g. "net.shinyfrog.bear"). Each app is returned with full metadata; enable "Include reviews" to also fetch its customer reviews. Used instead of Search term. Note: individual metadata fields (e.g. averageUserRating, releaseNotes, sellerUrl, price) can be null when Apple does not provide them for an app.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

When looking up apps by ID, also fetch each app's customer reviews (author, rating, title, body, version, date) from Apple's public reviews feed. Ignored in Search mode.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of customer reviews to fetch per app when "Include reviews" is on. Apple's feed serves roughly 50 reviews per page across up to 10 pages (~500 max).

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which to fetch reviews: most recent first, or most helpful first.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter App Store storefront code, e.g. us, gb, ca, de, fr, jp, in. Affects which apps, prices, and reviews are returned. Use a valid ISO storefront code: an invalid code (e.g. "us-uk") is rejected by Apple's API and the actor returns a diagnostic row with no results instead of charging.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of apps to return when using Search term. Apple's search caps at 200 results per query.

## `notionConnector` (type: `string`):

Optional. Write each app as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors, then pick it here. Leave empty to skip (default) — results are always saved to the dataset regardless.

## `notionParentId` (type: `string`):

Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your workspace instead.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

OPTIONAL. The iTunes / App Store APIs are public and unauthenticated, so no proxy is needed and none is used by default. Only enable a proxy if you hit per-IP rate limits at high volume; routing this public API through Apify Proxy otherwise just consumes proxy credits with no benefit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerm": "notion",
  "appIds": [],
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "mostrecent",
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Scraped rows are stored in the default dataset (one row per result). Blocked/empty/error runs return a single uncharged diagnostic row instead.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerm": "notion"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dami_studio/app-store-scraper").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 = { "searchTerm": "notion" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dami_studio/app-store-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerm": "notion"
}' |
apify call dami_studio/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=dami_studio/app-store-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "App Store Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape the Apple App Store with no key and no anti-bot. Search apps by keyword, or look up apps by trackId/bundleId, and get full metadata: rating, rating count, price, genre, version, description, screenshots, size. Optionally pull customer reviews per app.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "Vdqfu2V8UMzVyXVcH"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/dami_studio~app-store-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-dami_studio-app-store-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
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                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/dami_studio~app-store-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-dami_studio-app-store-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/dami_studio~app-store-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-dami_studio-app-store-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchTerm": {
                        "title": "Search term",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Keyword to search the App Store for (e.g. \"notion\", \"habit tracker\"). Returns matching apps with full metadata. Leave empty if you are looking up specific apps by ID instead."
                    },
                    "appIds": {
                        "title": "App IDs (trackId or bundleId)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Look up specific apps by numeric trackId (e.g. \"1232780281\") or bundleId (e.g. \"net.shinyfrog.bear\"). Each app is returned with full metadata; enable \"Include reviews\" to also fetch its customer reviews. Used instead of Search term. Note: individual metadata fields (e.g. averageUserRating, releaseNotes, sellerUrl, price) can be null when Apple does not provide them for an app.",
                        "default": [],
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "includeReviews": {
                        "title": "Include reviews",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "When looking up apps by ID, also fetch each app's customer reviews (author, rating, title, body, version, date) from Apple's public reviews feed. Ignored in Search mode.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "maxReviews": {
                        "title": "Max reviews per app",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of customer reviews to fetch per app when \"Include reviews\" is on. Apple's feed serves roughly 50 reviews per page across up to 10 pages (~500 max).",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "reviewsSort": {
                        "title": "Reviews sort order",
                        "enum": [
                            "mostrecent",
                            "mosthelpful"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Order in which to fetch reviews: most recent first, or most helpful first.",
                        "default": "mostrecent"
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country / storefront",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter App Store storefront code, e.g. us, gb, ca, de, fr, jp, in. Affects which apps, prices, and reviews are returned. Use a valid ISO storefront code: an invalid code (e.g. \"us-uk\") is rejected by Apple's API and the actor returns a diagnostic row with no results instead of charging.",
                        "default": "us"
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max apps (search mode)",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 200,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of apps to return when using Search term. Apple's search caps at 200 results per query.",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "notionConnector": {
                        "title": "Notion connector (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional. Write each app as a page into your Notion when the run finishes. Authorize a Notion connector once in Settings → API & Integrations → MCP connectors, then pick it here. Leave empty to skip (default) — results are always saved to the dataset regardless."
                    },
                    "notionParentId": {
                        "title": "Notion target data source ID",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Optional. The Notion data source ID of the database to write into (only used if a Notion connector is set). Leave empty to create the pages privately in your workspace instead."
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy (optional)",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "OPTIONAL. The iTunes / App Store APIs are public and unauthenticated, so no proxy is needed and none is used by default. Only enable a proxy if you hit per-IP rate limits at high volume; routing this public API through Apify Proxy otherwise just consumes proxy credits with no benefit.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": false
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```