# App Store & Google Play Scraper - Details & Search (`domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-scraper`) Actor

Get app details from the Apple App Store and Google Play by app ID or by keyword search: title, developer, developer email and website, rating, rating counts, installs, price, genre, release and update dates. Same columns for both stores. For ASO, competitor research and app developer lead lists.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Xinnan Zhang](https://apify.com/domnicshadowuae) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 apps

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## App Store & Google Play Scraper — App Details, Search, Developer Emails

Get **app details from both the Apple App Store and Google Play** in the same columns, by app ID or by **keyword search**.

### What you get per app

Title, short summary, description, developer, **developer email** and website (Google Play), genre, rating, number of ratings and reviews, rating histogram, installs (Google Play shows both the band and the exact count), price and currency, in-app purchase range, ads, content rating, release and last update date, version (App Store), icon and privacy policy links.

### Use it for

- **ASO and keyword research**: see which apps rank for a keyword, in rank order (`search_rank`).
- **Competitor tracking**: schedule a run and compare ratings, installs and update dates over time.
- **App developer lead lists**: Google Play publishes each developer's contact email and website.

### Input

```json
{"apps": ["com.spotify.music", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"],
 "searchTerms": ["budget tracker"], "searchStores": ["google", "apple"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 20, "country": "us"}
```

### Output

```json
{"store": "google", "app_id": "com.spotify.music", "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts", "developer": "Spotify AB",
 "developer_email": "support@spotify.com", "developer_website": "https://www.spotify.com", "genre": "Music & Audio",
 "rating": 4.349, "ratings_count": 36511253, "installs": "1,000,000,000+", "real_installs": 3167504775,
 "price": 0.0, "currency": "USD", "updated": "2026-10-14T05:44:28+00:00", "search_term": "music", "search_rank": 1}
```

Fields a store doesn't publish are `null` (for example, installs on the App Store).

### Pricing

Pay per app returned. Apps that can't be found return nothing and cost nothing.

### Need reviews too?

Use [App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-reviews) for the reviews of the same apps.

### Also available as an API

The same data is available per call over HTTP (x402, paid in USDC) and as an MCP tool for AI assistants at https://bess-x402.onrender.com.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

App Store URLs or ids, and Google Play URLs or package names. Leave empty to only search.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search; every app found is returned with full details and its rank.

## `searchStores` (type: `array`):

Which stores the search terms are run in.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Apps returned per search term and store, in store rank order.

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

Two-letter store country such as us, gb, de.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language of Google Play titles and descriptions.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "budget tracker"
  ],
  "searchStores": [
    "google",
    "apple"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 20,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

App details, plus search term and rank for search results.

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
    ],
    "searchTerms": [
        "budget tracker"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-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 = {
    "apps": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252",
    ],
    "searchTerms": ["budget tracker"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-scraper").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "budget tracker"
  ]
}' |
apify call domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,domnicshadowuae/app-store-google-play-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/tBrxO25ZIJIE0uVVZ/builds/phmCrgcstzC1QdhoY/openapi.json