# Shopify App Store Intelligence (`forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence`) Actor

Rank every app in any Shopify App Store category with ratings, review counts, plan prices, 1-5 star breakdowns and developer info, plus competitor complaint mining: newest 1-2 star reviews tagged by theme (billing, support, bugs). Flat CSV.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence.md
- **Developed by:** [Forge Labs](https://apify.com/forgelabs) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Lead generation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

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

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Shopify App Store Intelligence

**See every app in a Shopify App Store category ranked, and see what merchants hate about each one.** Leave the default input as it is and in about 50 seconds you get the top 24 product-review apps, each with its rating, review count, cheapest paid plan, 1-5 star breakdown, the share of 1-2 star reviews, and its newest complaints tagged by theme.

### What you get (real output, Oct 15 2026, default input)

**Leaderboard, sorted by share of 1-2 star reviews (apps with 50 or more reviews)**

| Category rank | App | Rating | Reviews | 1-2 star | Top complaint themes (sampled) | From $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | REVIEWS.io Product Reviews App | 4.7 | 774 | 6.1% | billing, support, features | 19 |
| 22 | Trustify Google Reviews | 4.7 | 119 | 5.0% | support, performance, billing | 6.90 |
| 13 | Klaviyo: Product Reviews | 4.8 | 232 | 4.7% | support, bugs, performance | 25 |
| 12 | WiseReviews ‑ Reviews Importer | 4.8 | 174 | 2.9% | support, bugs | 9.95 |
| 1 | Judge.me Product Reviews App | 5.0 | 48,616 | 0.4% | support, billing, ease_of_use | 15 |

**One app row (excerpt)**

```json
{"type":"app","categoryRank":1,"name":"Judge.me Product Reviews App","rating":5,"reviewCount":48616,
 "developer":"Judge.me","launchedDate":"2015-06-25","builtForShopify":true,"hasFreePlan":true,
 "minPaidPlanUsdMonth":15,"stars1Count":154,"stars2Count":36,"negativeReviewPct":0.4,
 "topComplaintThemes":"support (1), billing (1), ease_of_use (1)","developerReplyRatePct":100}
```

**One complaint row**

```json
{"type":"review","appName":"Judge.me Product Reviews App","rating":1,"reviewDate":"2026-09-14",
 "reviewText":"Hard to cancel, very expensive","storeCountry":"United States",
 "timeUsingApp":"Almost 4 years using the app","complaintThemes":"billing, ease_of_use","developerReplied":true}
```

You also get a **SUMMARY** report for each category: average rating, number of apps under 4.5 stars, and the most-complained-about apps along with their themes.

### Why this one

| | This Actor | Typical Shopify App Store scrapers |
|---|---|---|
| Whole category, in Shopify's own ranking order | ✅ | Often single apps or search only |
| 1-5 star breakdown and % negative | ✅ | Rare |
| Complaint mining: newest 1-2 star reviews only | ✅ | ❌ (all reviews, newest or most relevant) |
| Complaint themes (billing, support, bugs, performance, ease of use, features, uninstall, theme conflict) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Developer reply rate, "time using the app" | ✅ | Partial |
| Cheapest and top paid plan in $/month, free plan or trial, Built for Shopify, launch date | ✅ | Partial |
| One flat table (CSV-ready) with two views: Apps and Complaints | ✅ | Nested JSON |

### Use cases

- **App developers**: find categories where leaders are weak (high % negative, slow replies), then read exactly what merchants complain about. That's your roadmap and your landing-page copy.
- **Agencies and consultants**: build shortlists for clients with real ratings, prices and red flags.
- **Investors and M\&A**: screen apps by age, review volume, rating trend and complaint load.
- **Competitive monitoring**: schedule it weekly on your competitors' handles and get their newest bad reviews.

### Input

| Field | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| `categories` | product reviews | Category slugs or URLs from apps.shopify.com/categories (use the leaf category, e.g. `marketing-and-conversion-upsell-and-bundles`) |
| `appHandles` | – | Specific apps (`judgeme` or a full app URL) |
| `maxAppsPerCategory` | 24 | Up to 1,000, in ranking order |
| `includeDetails` | true | Off gives a fast, cheap leaderboard |
| `reviewsPerApp` | 5 | 0 to 100 |
| `reviewFilter` | complaints | `complaints` (1-2 star) or `newest` |
| `includeAds` | false | Include sponsored slots |

### Pricing (pay per result)

- App with full details: **$4.00 per 1,000** ($0.004 each)
- App listing only (details off): **$1.00 per 1,000**
- Review: **$0.50 per 1,000**

The default run (24 apps with up to 5 complaints each) costs about **$0.14**. A full 200-app category with no reviews costs about **$0.80**. Error rows are never charged.

### API / MCP

```bash
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/forgelabs~shopify-app-store-intelligence/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"appHandles":["klaviyo-email-marketing","omnisend"],"reviewsPerApp":20}'
```

### FAQ

**Is this allowed?** It reads only public app listing, category and review pages on apps.shopify.com, with no login. It respects robots.txt: it never uses search-query URLs, `/internal/` or `/services/`. Reviewers appear as their store (business) name and country, which is exactly how Shopify shows them publicly.
**How are complaint themes detected?** With multilingual-friendly keyword rules on the English text, so non-English reviews may get no themes. Use them for triage and read the review text before you draw conclusions.
**Why "48K"-style counts?** Shopify shows rounded counts for large star buckets. We back-compute the exact 5-star count from the exact total where we can.

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Shopify App Store category slugs or URLs, e.g. marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews or https://apps.shopify.com/categories/marketing-and-conversion-upsell-and-bundles. Every app is ranked in its category order.

## `appHandles` (type: `array`):

App handles or URLs to analyse, e.g. judgeme or https://apps.shopify.com/klaviyo-email-marketing. Combine with or instead of categories.

## `maxAppsPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

How many apps to take from each category, in Store ranking order.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Developer, launch date, plan prices, languages, integrations and 1-5 star rating breakdown. Turn off for a fast, cheaper leaderboard only.

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

How many reviews to extract per app (0 = none). Each review is tagged with complaint themes.

## `reviewFilter` (type: `string`):

Complaints mode surfaces what merchants hate about each competitor.

## `includeAds` (type: `boolean`):

Include paid ad slots shown in category pages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews"
  ],
  "maxAppsPerCategory": 24,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "reviewsPerApp": 5,
  "reviewFilter": "complaints",
  "includeAds": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

No description

## `complaints` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {
    "categories": [
        "marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews"
    ],
    "maxAppsPerCategory": 24,
    "reviewsPerApp": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence").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 = {
    "categories": ["marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews"],
    "maxAppsPerCategory": 24,
    "reviewsPerApp": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence").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 '{
  "categories": [
    "marketing-and-conversion-social-trust-product-reviews"
  ],
  "maxAppsPerCategory": 24,
  "reviewsPerApp": 5
}' |
apify call forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,forgelabs/shopify-app-store-intelligence"
        }
    }
}
```

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/PccfnbVaKy5Di7Ok1/builds/ToosUuVZqZEYLtISv/openapi.json