App Store Scraper — Apps, Ratings & ASO Data by Keyword

Launch pricing: this actor currently adds no fee — run it on your Apify free-plan credits. Try it, bookmark it, wire it into your stack.

An App Store scraper for keyword and app-ID lookups: this Apple App Store scraper lets you scrape App Store apps — names, developers, categories, ratings, rating counts, prices, versions and update dates — from any country storefront. As an iTunes Search API scraper it runs on Apple's own public endpoint, so results are fast, accurate and never blocked — perfect for building App Store ASO data sets.

Official-API data in seconds: hundreds of apps per keyword, deduplicated by app ID, from any storefront on the planet.

Who uses this

• ASO consultants & app marketers — track competitors' ratings, ratingCount velocity, pricing and update cadence per keyword.
• Indie developers — scan a niche before building; see who ranks for your target search terms.
• Analysts & VCs — build app datasets per category or keyword across country storefronts.
• AI pipelines — clean JSON per app, ready for LLM analysis (works via MCP).

Tracking where new products launch and get discussed? The Hacker News Scraper captures the tech zeitgeist the same clean-JSON way.

How it works

The actor calls Apple's public iTunes Search API — search for keywords, lookup for explicit app IDs (batched 200 per request) — maps each result to a flat record, and deduplicates by appId across all terms in the run. A run that would produce zero apps fails loudly instead of succeeding empty.

Output

One record per app:

{
  "appId": 337472899,
  "name": "Insight Timer: Meditate, Sleep",
  "bundleId": "com.spotlightsix.zentimer",
  "developer": "Insight Network Inc",
  "developerId": 983080487,
  "category": "Health & Fitness",
  "categories": ["Health & Fitness", "Lifestyle"],
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "rating": 4.89,
  "ratingCount": 442695,
  "version": "20.25.0",
  "minimumOsVersion": "15.0",
  "contentRating": "12+",
  "sizeBytes": 247634944,
  "releaseDate": "2009-11-05T18:55:12Z",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-10T08:24:11Z",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/insight-timer-meditate-sleep/id337472899",
  "country": "US",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-15T09:34:33.234Z"
}

(each record also carries description, releaseNotes, icon, screenshots count and languages — trimmed here for brevity)

Input

Field	Default	Description
search	meditation	Keyword to search apps for
searchTerms	—	More keywords in one run
appIds	—	Numeric App Store IDs to look up directly
country	us	Storefront country code — affects price, currency, availability
maxItems	200	Stop after this many apps

The default run needs no configuration — an empty input searches meditation on the US storefront.

Reliability & limits

• The iTunes Search API returns at most ~200 results per keyword — use several searchTerms to widen coverage.
• Data freshness follows Apple's API (typically minutes-to-hours behind the live store page).
• Prices and availability are storefront-specific; run per country for international pricing matrices.
• Zero results (dead keyword, API hiccup) fail the run loudly — schedules never rot silently.

Paste this output into…

• Google Sheets — =IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/exuberant_volley~app-store-apps-scraper/runs/last/dataset/items?format=csv&clean=1&token=YOUR_TOKEN&fields=name,developer,category,rating,ratingCount,price,version,lastUpdated,url") for a live keyword-tracking sheet.
• Make / n8n — schedule weekly per keyword, fetch .../runs/last/dataset/items, and diff version/lastUpdated to catch competitor releases.
• ASO delta tracker (consultants) — store rating and ratingCount per appId each week; the week-over-week ratingCount delta is a direct download-velocity proxy for client reports.

ScrapeForge free data suite

One publisher, ten plug-and-play datasets — all currently free to run:

Actor	What it delivers
Executive Changes Tracker	New CEO/CFO/board moves from SEC 8-Ks + official newswires — source-cited B2B trigger leads	run it next →
IKEA Product Scraper	Names, prices, ratings and images from any IKEA search or category page	run it next →
Shopify Store Scraper	Any Shopify store's full catalog — variants, SKUs, prices — via products.json	run it next →
App Store Apps Scraper	App rankings, ratings, prices and metadata by keyword, any country	run it next →
Remote Jobs Scraper	Live remote listings from RemoteOK + Remotive, keyword-filtered	run it next →
CoinGecko Market Scraper	Top-coin prices, market caps and 24h moves — keyless	run it next →
GitHub Repositories Scraper	Repo search with stars, forks, topics and licenses	run it next →
Hacker News Scraper	Top/New/Best HN stories with scores and comment counts	run it next →
Wikipedia Scraper	Article summaries, images and URLs in any language — RAG-ready	run it next →
SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper	Any US public company's filing history by ticker	run it next →

Compliance

• No personal data — app catalog data only, GDPR-safe.
• Official API underneath — Apple's public iTunes Search API; no HTML parsing, no logins.
• Records live only in your run's dataset; the actor keeps nothing beyond it.