App Store Keywords Scraper — Ranked Apps & Ratings

See which iOS apps rank for any App Store keyword, in Apple's own search order: rank, app name, seller, price, rating and rating count, category, version, size and update date.

Any storefront. No API key, no account. $0.002 per app — a keyword with no results is recorded and not charged.

Input

{ "keyword": "habit tracker", "maxApps": 50, "country": "us" }

Bulk, on another storefront:

{ "keywords": ["habit tracker", "note taking", "budget app"], "maxApps": 25, "country": "de" }

Field	Type	Notes
keyword	string	A term as a user would type it into the App Store.
keywords	string[]	Up to 20 per run.
maxApps	integer	1–200 per keyword, in ranked order. Charged per app.
country	string	Storefront — us, gb, de, jp. Rankings differ per storefront.
includeIpad	boolean	Also return iPad-only apps.

Output

{
  "ok": true,
  "keyword": "habit tracker",
  "country": "us",
  "rank": 1,
  "appName": "Habit Tracker",
  "seller": "Inner Grow Limited",
  "bundleId": "com.innergrow.habittracker",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/habit-tracker/id1438388363",
  "price": 0,
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "isFree": true,
  "rating": 4.79,
  "ratingCount": 146594,
  "primaryGenre": "Productivity",
  "genres": ["Productivity", "Health & Fitness"],
  "version": "2.14.23",
  "releasedAt": "2019-01-31T09:10:14Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-15T15:18:18Z",
  "fileSizeMb": 324,
  "minimumOsVersion": "15.0",
  "contentRating": "4+",
  "screenshotCount": 10
}

What it gets right

• ⭐ rank is explicit. Apple returns results in search order and nothing else — position is implicit in array order, which is lost the moment you sort a spreadsheet or load a database. "Where do I place for this keyword?" is the question the tool exists to answer, so rank is a dense, 1-based column that restarts per keyword, and the spec asserts it.
• Size is a number. Apple returns fileSizeBytes as a string; a size you cannot sort is not a size. You get fileSizeMb as an integer.
• isFree agrees with price — asserted, so it cannot drift into an independent guess.
• Ratings are rounded sanely (4.79216 → 4.79) and the current-version rating is kept separately, because a good lifetime average can hide a bad recent release.
• Storefronts really differ, and country is echoed on every row so merged exports stay unambiguous.
• The response is parsed, not trusted by header — Apple serves this endpoint as text/javascript.

Pricing

$0.002 per app returned. A 25-app look at one keyword is 5 cents. A keyword with no results produces an appCount: 0 record and is not charged.

Limits

• 20 keywords per run, up to 200 apps each (Apple's own ceiling).
• iOS / Apple App Store only. Google Play is a different store and is not covered here.
• Apple rate-limits aggressive use; a refusal is reported as a clear error rather than an empty run.
• Search rank reflects Apple's ranking at read time for that storefront, which moves.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No — this uses Apple's own public Search API.

Does it cover Google Play? No. Different store, different market.

Why does rank differ from what I see in the App Store app? Apple personalises on-device results; this is the unpersonalised storefront ranking.

Changelog

• 0.1 (2026-09-10) — first release. Explicit rank, numeric size, price/free agreement, per-storefront search, bulk keywords.