# App Store Publisher Data — Company Apps, Ratings & Categories (`foxlabs/app-store-publisher-data`) Actor

Find a company's iOS and Mac apps on the Apple App Store. Returns publisher name and Apple artist ID, every app with its category, price, rating and rating count, release and update dates, version, supported languages, seller website and bundle IDs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/app-store-publisher-data.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 app records

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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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Store Publisher Data — Company Apps, Ratings & Categories

A company's app portfolio tells you what it actually ships, how it monetises and how many customers reviewed it. This actor resolves a company name to its Apple publisher ID and returns its whole catalogue — categories, prices, ratings, update cadence and bundle IDs — from Apple's own public search API.

**No API key · Official source · Pay only for delivered rows · Same schema across the series**

### What data do you get?

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `companyName` | Publisher name as it appears on the store |
| `registrationNumber` | Apple artist (publisher) ID |
| `appId` | App track ID |
| `appName` | App name |
| `bundleId` | Bundle identifier — the join key to other app datasets |
| `industry` | Primary App Store category |
| `categories` | Every category the app is listed under |
| `price` | Price in the selected storefront |
| `currency` | Storefront currency |
| `rating` | Average user rating |
| `ratingCount` | Number of ratings |
| `releasedOn` | Original release date |
| `updatedOn` | Most recent version release date |
| `version` | Current version |
| `contentAdvisory` | Age rating |
| `languages` | Supported languages |
| `website` | Seller website |
| `supportUrl` | Support URL |
| `description` | Store description |
| `sourceUrl` | App Store page |

Every row also carries `query` (what you asked for), `scrapedAt` (ISO timestamp) and, when a
lookup fails, `error` explaining why.

### Example output

```json
{
  "country": "GLOBAL",
  "registry": "Apple App Store",
  "companyName": "Revolut Ltd",
  "registrationNumber": "932493382",
  "appId": "932493382",
  "appName": "Revolut: Send, spend and save",
  "bundleId": "com.revolut.revolut",
  "industry": "Finance",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.72,
  "ratingCount": 71229,
  "releasedOn": "2015-06-30",
  "updatedOn": "2026-08-12",
  "website": "https://revolut.com",
  "sourceUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id932493382"
}
```

### Input

```json
{
  "queries": ["Revolut","Monzo","Shopify"],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "includeRaw": false
}
```

| Input | What it does |
|---|---|
| `queries` | Company or app names (`Revolut`, `Monzo`) or numeric Apple artist IDs. A name resolves to the publisher behind the best-matching app, then that publisher's whole catalogue is returned. |
| `maxResultsPerQuery` | Caps how many rows one query may produce. |
| `maxConcurrency` | How many queries run at once. Lower it if the source starts throttling. |
| `includeRaw` | Attaches the source's untouched record under `raw`, for fields this actor does not map. |
| `requestDelayMs` | Politeness delay between requests. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Optional. Apple's search API answers datacenter IPs, though it rate-limits bursts. |

### What people use it for

- **Competitive product tracking** — update cadence and rating trajectory across a competitor's whole portfolio.
- **Mobile-first lead scoring** — a company with a rated, actively updated app is a different prospect from one without.
- **Partner discovery** — find every publisher shipping in a category, with their websites.

### Notes and limits

- Apple's search is fuzzy. A name query resolves to the publisher behind the best match, so check `companyName` before assuming it is the company you meant — an artist ID query avoids the ambiguity entirely.
- Prices and availability are storefront-specific. Change the `country` input to see a different market's catalogue.

### Where the data comes from

Apple publishes the iTunes Search API for public use with no key. Source: [Apple iTunes Search API](https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-api)

### FAQ

#### Is this App Store publisher scraper free?

The data source is free and needs no API key — you pay only for the rows the run delivers ($0.002 each). Failed or empty lookups are never charged.

#### Do I need an API key or a login?

No. Apple publishes the iTunes Search API for public use with no key.

#### What can I search by?

By company or app name (`Revolut`, `Monzo`), or by a numeric Apple artist ID for an exact publisher lookup.

#### How current is the data?

Every run queries the source live, so results are as fresh as the source itself. Apple's search index reflects the live store, usually within hours of a release.

#### How fast is it, and how many queries can I run?

Queries run concurrently (3 at a time by default, tunable in the input). A prefilled run finishes in seconds; large lists scale roughly linearly and stay well inside a normal run timeout.

#### Can I export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON?

Yes. Apify datasets export to CSV, Excel, JSON, XML and HTML, and can be pulled through the API or pushed to your own storage.

#### What happens when a query returns nothing?

You still get a row, carrying your original `query` and an `error` field explaining why. Nothing is silently dropped, and you are not charged for it.

#### Is scraping this data legal?

Yes. The iTunes Search API is Apple's own public catalogue service, published so partners can surface App Store content.

***

Built by [Fox Labs](https://apify.com/foxlabs) — B2B company intelligence from public sources, as clean JSON.

# Actor input Schema

## `queries` (type: `array`):

Company or app names (`Revolut`, `Monzo`) or numeric Apple artist IDs. A name resolves to the publisher behind the best-matching app, then that publisher's whole catalogue is returned.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

How many rows a single query may produce.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many queries to run at the same time. Lower it if the source throttles you.

## `includeRaw` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the source's untouched response under `raw`. Useful when you need a field this actor does not map.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay against a public source. Raise it for large runs.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Apple's search API answers datacenter IPs, though it rate-limits bursts.

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

Two-letter storefront code (`us`, `gb`, `de`). Catalogues and prices differ by store.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "queries": [
    "Revolut",
    "Monzo",
    "Shopify"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "includeRaw": false,
  "requestDelayMs": 200,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  },
  "country": "us"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (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 = {
    "queries": [
        "Revolut",
        "Monzo",
        "Shopify"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/app-store-publisher-data").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 = { "queries": [
        "Revolut",
        "Monzo",
        "Shopify",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/app-store-publisher-data").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 '{
  "queries": [
    "Revolut",
    "Monzo",
    "Shopify"
  ]
}' |
apify call foxlabs/app-store-publisher-data --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/8yo9a9kPe20bvdORk/builds/v13oMvSIeuNznbBpP/openapi.json