# App Store Keyword Rank Tracker & Top Charts — iOS ASO (`forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts`) Actor

Track where your iOS apps (and competitors) rank for App Store search keywords across countries, and pull Apple's top free, paid and grossing charts by category. Official Apple APIs, no login. Cheap ASO keyword rank monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts.md
- **Developed by:** [Forever Tools](https://apify.com/forevertools) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 result rows

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?

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

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

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# README

## App Store Keyword Rank Tracker & Top Charts — iOS ASO

Two cheap ASO jobs in one actor, using Apple's own public endpoints (no login, no cookies):

- **Keyword rank:** for every app × keyword × country, where the app ranks in Apple's search results (top 200), plus the
  top 3 apps for that keyword. Track yourself and your competitors with a daily or weekly schedule.
- **Top charts:** Apple's top free, top paid, top grossing (iPhone and iPad) and new-app charts for any country, optionally
  for one category (Games, Photo & Video, Finance, ...). Up to 100 apps per chart.

### Output

**Keyword rank rows:** `keyword`, `country`, `appId`, `rank` (1-200, or `null` if not in the top 200), `inTop200`, `appName`,
`resultsChecked`, `top3` (appId, name, developer), `checkedAt`.

**Top chart rows:** `country`, `chart`, `genreId`, `rank`, `appId`, `bundleId`, `name`, `developer`, `price`, `currency`,
`category`, `categoryId`, `releaseDate`, `url`, `checkedAt`.

Invalid app IDs, empty charts and failed requests return an `error` row and are **not charged**.

### How rank is measured (read this)

Rank is the app's position in the **iTunes Search API** results for the keyword in that country's store, which returns up to
200 apps. That API is Apple's official public search endpoint. It tracks the App Store app's own search order closely but
**not exactly**, because the App Store app also personalises results and shows ads. Use it for trends (moving up or down over
time, versus competitors), not as a guarantee of what one user sees.

### Common category IDs

6014 Games · 6008 Photo & Video · 6015 Finance · 6007 Productivity · 6017 Education · 6013 Health & Fitness ·
6005 Social Networking · 6016 Entertainment · 6012 Lifestyle · 6002 Utilities · 6024 Shopping · 6023 Food & Drink.

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$1 per 1,000 rows** (one keyword-rank check = one row; one chart entry = one row), plus Apify platform usage.
Example: 5 apps × 20 keywords × 2 countries = 200 rows = $0.20.

### Notes

- Apple rate-limits the Search API (about 20 calls a minute), so the actor makes one call every 3 seconds and backs off when
  throttled. 100 keyword × country pairs take about 5 minutes.
- Pairs well with the [App Store Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/forevertools/apple-app-store-reviews) for review monitoring.
- Not affiliated with Apple. Built and maintained with AI assistance. Report problems in the Issues tab and they get fixed.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

What to fetch.

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

App Store IDs (284882215) or App Store URLs. Yours and competitors'. One row per app × keyword × country.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Search terms to check, e.g. 'photo editor'. Each keyword × country costs one search; every app is checked against the top 200 results.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter App Store country codes (us, gb, de, jp, ...).

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Which Apple charts to fetch.

## `genreId` (type: `string`):

Optional App Store genre ID, e.g. 6014 Games, 6008 Photo & Video, 6015 Finance, 6007 Productivity, 6017 Education. Empty = all categories.

## `chartLimit` (type: `integer`):

Up to 100 (Apple's limit).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "keywordRank",
  "apps": [
    "284882215",
    "389801252"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "social network"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ],
  "charts": [
    "topfreeapplications"
  ],
  "genreId": "",
  "chartLimit": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "284882215",
        "389801252"
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "social network"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts").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": [
        "284882215",
        "389801252",
    ],
    "keywords": ["social network"],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts").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": [
    "284882215",
    "389801252"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "social network"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ]
}' |
apify call forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,forevertools/app-store-keyword-rank-top-charts"
        }
    }
}
```

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/m89UxxVd3ycG8IBYU/builds/cvJJrHAt1QzVD76rO/openapi.json