# Changelog of App Store & Google Play Scraper: Apps, Ratings, Charts (`folt/app-store-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/folt/app-store-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/folt/app-store-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 0.1 — 2026-10

- First release: App Store (Apple Lookup API) and Google Play (public app page) app records in one schema, per country.
- Google Play: rating histogram, installs, written-review count, ads / in-app purchase info, and up to 20 reviews per app with developer replies — no reviewer names, avatars or ids; reviewer names removed from replies; emails and phone numbers redacted.
- Apple top free / top paid charts (up to 100 ranks per country), optionally with full app records for charted apps.
- robots.txt checked live on every run (bundled snapshot when a host's robots.txt is unreachable); App Store keyword search, App Store reviews, Google Play search and Google Play full review history are not supported because the stores' robots.txt disallow them.
- Polite fetching: Apple's documented ~20 calls/minute, ~1 Google Play page per second, retries with backoff; SSRF-safe fetching restricted to the three store hosts; response size caps; uncharged error rows; `maxItems` and cost-limit stops.