# App Store Scraper - Apps, Ratings & Reviews (`flash_scraper/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Apple App Store apps by keyword from the official iTunes Search API. Get app name, developer, category, price, rating, rating count, version, release date, icon & description — plus optional recent reviews. Clean rows for ASO, market research & competitor tracking. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/flash\_scraper/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Flash Scrape](https://apify.com/flash_scraper) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 results

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

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```bash
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```

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````bash
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```bash

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

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# README

## App Store Scraper — Apps, Ratings & Reviews by keyword

**This App Store scraper turns Apple's App Store into clean, spreadsheet-ready app data** — search by **keyword** in any **country storefront** and get one flat row per app: name, developer, bundle id, category, price, average rating, rating count, content rating, version, release date, App Store URL, icon, and a trimmed description. Optionally attach the **most-recent customer reviews** to every app. Straight from the official Apple **iTunes Search API**, no API key, no anti-bot, no proxies.

Built for **ASO specialists, indie & studio developers, product managers, and market researchers** who need App Store catalog data and review signals as rows they can sort, filter, and export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

---

### What does it do?

You give it one or more **search terms** (e.g. `photo editor`, `habit tracker`, `budget`) and a **country** storefront. It queries Apple's public iTunes Search API for each term, merges and **dedupes** the results by app, and flattens every record into a clean row. Turn **Include reviews** on and it also pulls each app's most-recent reviews (rating, title, body, author, app version) from Apple's public RSS review feed and attaches them as a `reviews` array on the app row — so one dataset gives you both the catalog and the voice-of-customer signal.

Search either the **iPhone / universal** catalog (`software`) or the **iPad** catalog (`iPadSoftware`).

---

### Why use it / who's it for

- **ASO & keyword research** — see exactly which apps rank for a keyword in a storefront, with their ratings and rating volume, to size the competition and find gaps.
- **Competitor tracking** — monitor a rival's version, release cadence, price, rating trajectory, and what users are actually saying in fresh reviews.
- **Market & category research** — pull a whole keyword's worth of apps to map pricing models (free vs paid), category mix, and rating distribution.
- **Indie & studio developers** — benchmark your app against the top results for your keywords, storefront by storefront.
- **Review mining** — collect recent reviews across a set of apps for sentiment, feature requests, and complaint themes.
- **No API key, no anti-bot, no proxies** — public Apple data, runs fine on datacenter IPs.

---

### How to use it

1. Enter one or more **search terms**.
2. Set the **country** storefront (default `us`) and the **device / app type** (iPhone/universal or iPad).
3. Set **Max apps** (up to 500 across all terms).
4. Optionally turn on **Include reviews** and set **Reviews per app**.
5. Run → get a clean, deduped app list, then export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

#### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchTerms` | array | One or more keywords; results are merged and deduped. |
| `country` | string | Two-letter storefront code (e.g. `us`, `gb`, `de`). Default `us`. |
| `entity` | string | `software` (iPhone/universal) or `iPadSoftware` (iPad). |
| `maxItems` | integer | Max apps across all terms (1–500). Default `100`. |
| `includeReviews` | boolean | Attach a `reviews` array to each app. Default `false`. |
| `reviewsPerApp` | integer | Max recent reviews per app (1–50). Default `20`. |

Only `searchTerms` is required — every other field has a sensible default.

**Example input:**

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["photo editor", "video editor"],
  "country": "us",
  "entity": "software",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "reviewsPerApp": 20
}
````

#### Output fields

`app_name`, `developer`, `bundle_id`, `category`, `categories`, `price`, `formatted_price`, `currency`, `is_free`, `avg_rating`, `rating_count`, `content_rating`, `version`, `release_date`, `current_version_release_date`, `min_os_version`, `app_url`, `developer_url`, `icon_url`, `description` (trimmed to ~500 chars), and `track_id`. When reviews are on, each row also has a `reviews` array (`rating`, `title`, `body`, `author`, `version`, `updated`) and `review_count_fetched`.

#### JSON output sample

```json
{
  "track_id": 587366035,
  "app_name": "Picsart AI Photo Editor, Video",
  "developer": "PicsArt, Inc.",
  "bundle_id": "com.picsart.studio",
  "category": "Photo & Video",
  "categories": ["Photo & Video", "Graphics & Design"],
  "price": 0.0,
  "formatted_price": "Free",
  "currency": "USD",
  "is_free": true,
  "avg_rating": 4.67,
  "rating_count": 1192940,
  "content_rating": "12+",
  "version": "30.2.3",
  "release_date": "2013-01-02T22:14:40Z",
  "current_version_release_date": "2026-07-03T04:32:53Z",
  "min_os_version": "15.0",
  "app_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/picsart-ai-photo-editor-video/id587366035",
  "developer_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/picsart-inc/id587366038",
  "icon_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/…/512x512bb.jpg",
  "description": "Ignite your creative potential with Picsart — the all-in-one AI photo editor…",
  "reviews": [
    { "rating": 5, "title": "Love it", "body": "Best editor on iOS.", "author": "creator99", "version": "30.2.3", "updated": "2026-07-01T06:53:19-07:00" }
  ],
  "review_count_fetched": 20
}
```

Results render as a clean, sortable table on the Output tab and export to CSV, JSON, or Excel.

#### Example output

A real sample from a live run (`photo editor`, `us`):

| App | Developer | Category | Price | Rating | # Ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picsart AI Photo Editor, Video | PicsArt, Inc. | Photo & Video | Free | 4.67 | 1,192,940 |
| Facetune: AI Photo & Video Edit | Lightricks Ltd. | Photo & Video | Free | 4.77 | 1,120,000 |
| PhotoRoom AI Photo Editor | PhotoRoom | Photo & Video | Free | 4.80 | 380,000 |

***

### Use with AI agents & automation

Run from the Apify **MCP** server so AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can pull App Store data as a tool call, schedule runs via **Make**, **n8n**, or **Zapier** to track competitors over time, or sync the dataset to **Google Sheets**. Clean flat JSON drops into research pipelines with no glue code.

***

### Pricing

**Pay-per-event — charged per app row delivered.** The source is Apple's free public iTunes Search API (no proxy or third-party cost), so you're charged only for apps actually returned — no subscription, no charge for empty or failed runs. See the Apify Store page for the current per-result price.

***

### FAQ

**Where does the data come from?** The official **Apple iTunes Search API** and Apple's public **customer-reviews RSS feed** — the same endpoints that power App Store search. Public data, no API key.

**How fresh is it?** Live at run time. Ratings, versions, and prices reflect the App Store storefront at the moment of the run. Re-run periodically to track changes.

**Why do rating counts / prices differ by country?** They're storefront-specific. Set `country` to the market you care about, and run per-country for a global picture.

**How many apps can I get per keyword?** Apple's search returns up to ~200 results per term. Add more `searchTerms` (and long-tail variants) to widen coverage, up to your `maxItems`.

**Why do some apps have no reviews?** Apple's public review feed only exposes recent reviews per storefront, and some apps (or storefronts) have none — those rows come back with an empty `reviews` array. Review fetching never fails the run.

**Is this legal?** It reads **publicly available Apple App Store data** via Apple's own public endpoints — no login, no paywall bypass. Follow Apple's terms and applicable laws when you use the data.

**Can I export to CSV or Google Sheets?** Yes — CSV, JSON, or Excel from the Output tab, or sync to Google Sheets via Make, n8n, or Zapier.

***

### Other Flash Scrape scrapers

- [Shopify Store Scraper](https://apify.com/flash_scraper/shopify-store-scraper) — products & store data from any Shopify shop
- [Google SERP Scraper](https://apify.com/flash_scraper/google-serp-scraper) — Google search results as structured rows

Questions or a field you need added? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab — happy to help.

# Actor input Schema

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

One or more keywords to search the App Store for, e.g. 'photo editor', 'habit tracker', 'budget'. Each term is searched separately and results are merged & deduped.

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

Two-letter country code for the App Store storefront to search, e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'de', 'fr', 'ma'. Prices and availability are storefront-specific.

## `entity` (type: `string`):

Which App Store catalog to search: iPhone/universal apps (software) or iPad apps (iPadSoftware).

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

Maximum number of apps to return across all search terms (the iTunes Search API returns up to 200 per term).

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

Also fetch recent customer reviews for each app (adds a 'reviews' array to every app row). Slower, and reviews are only available for apps that have them in the selected storefront.

## `reviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Maximum recent reviews to attach to each app when 'Include reviews' is on (Apple's public review feed returns up to ~50 most-recent per storefront).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "photo editor"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "entity": "software",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "reviewsPerApp": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "photo editor"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("flash_scraper/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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["photo editor"],
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("flash_scraper/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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "photo editor"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call flash_scraper/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=flash_scraper/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 - Apps, Ratings & Reviews",
        "description": "Scrape Apple App Store apps by keyword from the official iTunes Search API. Get app name, developer, category, price, rating, rating count, version, release date, icon & description — plus optional recent reviews. Clean rows for ASO, market research & competitor tracking. No API key.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "hYn0okTiPNkVFrKcg"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/flash_scraper~app-store-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-flash_scraper-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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                            }
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                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/flash_scraper~app-store-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-flash_scraper-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": {
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
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                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/flash_scraper~app-store-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-flash_scraper-app-store-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$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": {
                    "searchTerms": {
                        "title": "Search terms",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "One or more keywords to search the App Store for, e.g. 'photo editor', 'habit tracker', 'budget'. Each term is searched separately and results are merged & deduped.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country storefront",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter country code for the App Store storefront to search, e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'de', 'fr', 'ma'. Prices and availability are storefront-specific.",
                        "default": "us"
                    },
                    "entity": {
                        "title": "Device / app type",
                        "enum": [
                            "software",
                            "iPadSoftware"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Which App Store catalog to search: iPhone/universal apps (software) or iPad apps (iPadSoftware).",
                        "default": "software"
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max apps",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 500,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of apps to return across all search terms (the iTunes Search API returns up to 200 per term).",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "includeReviews": {
                        "title": "Include reviews",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Also fetch recent customer reviews for each app (adds a 'reviews' array to every app row). Slower, and reviews are only available for apps that have them in the selected storefront.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "reviewsPerApp": {
                        "title": "Reviews per app",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 50,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum recent reviews to attach to each app when 'Include reviews' is on (Apple's public review feed returns up to ~50 most-recent per storefront).",
                        "default": 20
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
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                "properties": {
                    "data": {
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                        "properties": {
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                                "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
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```