# App Store Scraper - Apps, Details & Reviews (iOS) (`get_anything/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Apple App Store: search apps, get full app details (ratings, price, developer, screenshots) and extract customer reviews across 50+ country stores. Official iTunes endpoints, no API key or browser. Export to JSON, CSV or Excel for ASO, market research and review monitoring.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/get\_anything/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Get Anything](https://apify.com/get_anything) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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

## App Store Scraper — Apps, Details & Reviews (iOS / iPadOS / macOS)

Scrape the **Apple App Store** in one run: search apps by keyword, pull **full app details** (rating, price, size, developer, version, screenshots, description), and extract **customer reviews** across **50+ country stores**. Everything comes from Apple's **official iTunes endpoints** — no API key, no headless browser, no proxies.

### Why this one

Most App Store actors do one thing — usually reviews only. This one covers the whole workflow in a single run and returns clean, flat records ready for a spreadsheet, a database, or an LLM:

- **Search** → find every app matching a keyword (iTunes Search API).
- **Details** → 40+ fields of metadata for any app ID or App Store URL (iTunes Lookup API).
- **Reviews** → up to the ~500 newest customer reviews per app, per country (Apple RSS).

Because it uses Apple's own endpoints, runs are fast, cheap, and reliable.

### What it does

- Search the **iPhone, iPad, or Mac** catalog with multiple keywords at once.
- Look up specific apps by **numeric ID or App Store URL**.
- Any **country store** (US, GB, AE, IN, DE, …) — ratings and reviews are per-country.
- Optional **review scraping** with most-recent or most-helpful sort.
- Deduplicates apps found via both search and direct lookup.
- Export to **JSON, CSV, or Excel**, or pull via the Apify API.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `searchTerms` | Keywords to search, e.g. `habit tracker`, `expense`, `notion`. |
| `appIds` | Specific apps by numeric ID or App Store URL. |
| `country` | Two-letter store code (`us`, `gb`, `ae`, …). |
| `entity` | Catalog to search: iPhone / iPad / Mac apps. |
| `maxAppsPerSearch` | Cap per search term (Apple returns up to 200). |
| `scrapeReviews` | Also pull each app's reviews. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | Cap per app (Apple serves ~500 newest per country). |
| `reviewsSort` | `mostRecent` or `mostHelpful`. |

#### Example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["habit tracker"],
  "appIds": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281"],
  "country": "us",
  "entity": "software",
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 20,
  "scrapeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "reviewsSort": "mostRecent"
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item is tagged with `resultType` — `app` or `review`.

**App record** (abridged):

```json
{
  "resultType": "app",
  "appId": 1232780281,
  "appName": "Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281",
  "developer": "Notion Labs, Incorporated",
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "primaryGenre": "Productivity",
  "averageRating": 4.77,
  "ratingCount": 89957,
  "version": "1.7.333",
  "size": 235929600,
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00",
  "icon": "https://.../512x512.png",
  "screenshots": ["https://...", "https://..."]
}
```

**Review record**:

```json
{
  "resultType": "review",
  "appId": 1232780281,
  "appName": "Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI",
  "country": "us",
  "reviewId": "1234567890",
  "title": "Great for teams",
  "text": "We moved our whole workflow over...",
  "rating": 5,
  "version": "1.7.333",
  "author": "someuser",
  "updated": "2026-08-28T14:03:00+00:00"
}
```

### Common uses

- **ASO (App Store Optimization)** — track keyword rankings, ratings, and competitors.
- **Review monitoring** — schedule a run per app and feed new reviews into support or sentiment tooling.
- **Market research** — compare category leaders across countries.
- **LLM / RAG** — pipe review text into summaries, theme extraction, or a feedback digest.

### Notes

- Apple's public reviews RSS returns roughly the 500 newest reviews per app per country store — for deeper history, run the same app across multiple country stores.
- Ratings, prices, and reviews differ by `country`; set it deliberately.
- This Actor reads only Apple's public iTunes endpoints.

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords to search the App Store, e.g. 'meditation', 'expense tracker', 'notion'. Each returns matching apps. Leave empty if you only pass app IDs.

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Specific apps by numeric ID (e.g. '1232780281') or full App Store URL (e.g. 'https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notion/id1232780281'). These get a full details lookup.

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

Two-letter App Store country code, e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'ae', 'in', 'de'. Ratings and reviews are per-country.

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

Which App Store catalog to search.

## `maxAppsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Cap on apps returned per search term (Apple returns up to 200).

## `scrapeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

For every app found, pull its customer reviews too.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Cap on reviews per app. Apple's RSS feed serves the ~500 newest reviews per country store.

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which reviews are fetched.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker"
  ],
  "appIds": [],
  "country": "us",
  "entity": "software",
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 20,
  "scrapeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "mostRecent"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Structured results in the default dataset - one item per app or review.

# 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": [
        "habit tracker"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("get_anything/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": ["habit tracker"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("get_anything/app-store-scraper").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker"
  ]
}' |
apify call get_anything/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/mfDeLLkjp3h96IPxS/builds/JGCToeb6VjLhxCBeb/openapi.json