Apple App Store Scraper: Apps, Reviews and Top Charts (Official API)

Get App Store apps, customer reviews and top charts from Apple's own public APIs, with a source link on every record. No HTML scraping, no logins, and no reviewer names.

Four modes in one Actor:

Mode	What you give it	What you get
search	Keywords	Apps matching each keyword, in Apple's ranking order
lookup	App ids, App Store URLs or bundle ids	One full record per app, in as many countries as you list
reviews	App ids or bundle ids	Recent or most helpful customer reviews, up to 500 per app and country
top_charts	Country, chart, category	The current top free, paid or grossing apps with full records

Who uses this

• App makers tracking a competitor's rating, version and price in several countries.
• Product teams reading what users complain about after a release.
• Researchers and analysts pulling the top apps of a category on a schedule.
• AI agents that need current App Store facts and a link to check them.

An agent calls this when it needs to answer "what is the rating, price or latest review of this app" with a source it can cite.

What it does not do

• It does not return reviewer names or profile links. Apple publishes them in the review feed. This Actor drops them.
• It does not read the Google Play store.
• It does not return more than 500 reviews per app and country. That is the most Apple's review feed serves.
• It does not return download counts or revenue. Apple does not publish them.
• The review feed is unreliable. See "About the review feed" below.

Sample output

Input:

{ "mode": "lookup", "app_ids": [310633997], "countries": ["us"] }

One app record:

{
  "record_type": "app",
  "source": "lookup",
  "app_id": 310633997,
  "bundle_id": "net.whatsapp.WhatsApp",
  "name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "developer": "WhatsApp Inc.",
  "developer_id": 310634000,
  "price": 0.0,
  "formatted_price": "Free",
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.68,
  "rating_count": 18794373,
  "version": "26.40.77",
  "release_date": "2009-05-04T02:43:49Z",
  "current_version_release_date": "2026-10-12T12:34:26Z",
  "genres": ["Social Networking", "Utilities"],
  "primary_genre": "Social Networking",
  "size_bytes": 402210816,
  "minimum_os_version": "15.1",
  "country": "us",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
  "verify_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id310633997"
}

Check it yourself: open the verify_url. The App Store page shows the same name, developer, price and rating (rounded to one decimal place). Rating counts move by the minute.

One review record (mode reviews):

{
  "record_type": "review",
  "app_id": 310633997,
  "app_name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "review_id": "14676202820",
  "rating": 5,
  "title": "Mi mejor",
  "text": "Muy buena",
  "version": "26.40.77",
  "date": "2026-10-16T22:33:35-07:00",
  "vote_sum": 0,
  "vote_count": 0,
  "country": "us",
  "sort": "mostrecent",
  "page": 1,
  "verify_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id310633997?see-all=reviews"
}

A handled error: {"mode": "reviews"} stops at once with mode reviews needs app_ids (numbers from App Store URLs) or bundle_ids. Nothing is charged.

About the review feed

Apple's customer review feed is flaky. When this Actor was built (18 October 2026), roughly 70 to 85 percent of requests came back empty even for apps with millions of reviews, and the same request worked a moment later. This Actor therefore retries each review page up to 14 times with a fresh request before giving up.

If a page still comes back empty, the run says so. The RUN_SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists, for each app and country, how many reviews came back and a status:

Status	Meaning
ok	The reviews you asked for came back, or the last page was reached
empty_feed_after_retries	Apple returned nothing after every retry. The app may have no written reviews there, or the feed may be down. Run again later.
ended_early	A later page stayed empty. You have the pages before it.
no_ratings_in_storefront	The app has no ratings in that country, so there are no reviews to fetch
upstream_error, rejected	Apple answered with an error. The warning says which.

Because retries take time, expect about 10 seconds per page of 50 reviews.

Configuration

Field	Type	Default	Used by	Meaning
mode	string	search	all	search, lookup, reviews or top_charts
search_terms	list of text	["meditation"]	search	Up to 100 keywords, 200 characters each
app_ids	list	none	lookup, reviews	App ids or App Store URLs, up to 1000
bundle_ids	list of text	none	lookup, reviews	For example net.whatsapp.WhatsApp
countries	list of text	["us"]	all	Two letter store codes, up to 20
max_results	integer	10	search	Apps per keyword and country, 1 to 200
max_reviews_per_app	integer	50	reviews	Per app and country, 1 to 500
review_sort	text	mostrecent	reviews	mostrecent or mosthelpful
chart	text	top-free	top_charts	top-free, top-paid or top-grossing
category	text	all	top_charts	all or one category such as finance or games
max_chart_items	integer	25	top_charts	Apps per country, 1 to 100
include_description	boolean	false	apps	Adds description and release_notes
max_total_records	integer	20000	all	Safety cap on apps plus reviews

With no input at all, the Actor searches for "meditation" in the US store.

App record fields

record_type, source, app_id, bundle_id, name, developer, developer_id, price, formatted_price, currency, rating, rating_count, rating_current_version, rating_count_current_version, version, release_date, current_version_release_date, genres, primary_genre, size_bytes, minimum_os_version, content_rating, languages, icon_url, developer_url, developer_website, country, url, verify_url. Search records add search_term and search_rank. Chart records add chart, chart_rank and category. A field Apple does not provide is null, never guessed.

developer is the seller name Apple shows on the App Store page. For some apps that is a person's name, because that is how the developer registered.

Review record fields

record_type, app_id, app_name, review_id, rating, title, text, version, date, vote_sum, vote_count, country, sort, page, verify_url.

Errors

Message starts with	What to do
Input problem	The message names the field and the fix. Nothing was charged.
No records returned	Apple did not answer. Try again later.

An app id that does not exist in a country is not an error. It is listed under not_found in RUN_SUMMARY and in the run log.

Pricing

Pay per result, nothing else: $0.10 per 1,000 app records and $0.10 per 1,000 review records (that is $0.0001 each), plus the small standard Actor start charge. Records are charged only when they are returned. A run that returns nothing costs the start charge only. Set a maximum charge per run in Apify and the Actor stops when it is reached.

Data source and rules

All data comes from Apple's public iTunes Search and Lookup APIs, the customer reviews RSS feed and Apple Marketing Tools charts, read at the pace Apple documents (about 20 calls a minute for search and lookup). Use of Apple's data is subject to Apple's terms for those services.