# Apple App Store Reviews Scraper (`huggable_quote/apple-app-store-scraper`) Actor

Collect available Apple App Store reviews by country, including results beyond the common 500-review feed limit. Pay only $0.10 per 1,000 stored reviews.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/huggable\_quote/apple-app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [OrbitData Labs](https://apify.com/huggable_quote) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.10 / 1,000 stored reviews

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

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Apple App Store Reviews Scraper

Collect available Apple App Store reviews by country, including results beyond the common 500-review feed limit. Pay only $0.10 per 1,000 stored reviews.

Paste an App Store URL and run. That's it. Fast, HTTP-only, no login, no browser, no residential proxies.

### Why this scraper

- **Beyond the common 500-review feed limit.** Most App Store review scrapers rely on Apple's RSS feed, which serves at most ~500 recent reviews per app per country. This actor's primary source is the same public review endpoint the App Store website itself uses, which often provides reviews beyond that limit — you get whatever reviews Apple currently provides, up to your requested limit.
- **Multi-country in one run.** Query `us`, `kr`, `jp`, `de`, … storefronts in a single run; every record is labeled with `requestedCountry` and `resolvedCountry` (verified against the iTunes catalog).
- **Developer replies included** when Apple returns them.
- **Fair pay-per-result pricing.** You pay only for unique reviews actually stored. Empty results, duplicates, errors, retries, and status/notice records are never charged. There is no per-run start fee.
- **Transparent degradation.** If the primary source is unavailable, the actor automatically falls back to the public RSS feed (at most ~500 recent reviews per country) and tells you explicitly — via a `notice` record and `fallbackUsed: true` on affected reviews.

### Pricing

**$0.10 per 1,000 reviews** ($0.0001 per stored unique review), charged as pay-per-event. There is no per-run start fee. Only valid unique reviews stored to the dataset are charged — notice records, error records, empty results, duplicates, retries, and the RSS fallback process itself are free.

Estimated maximum price = `number of apps × number of countries × maxReviewsPerApp × $0.0001`

| Workload | Maximum price |
|---|---:|
| 1 app × 1 country × 100 reviews | $0.01 |
| 1 app × 1 country × 500 reviews | $0.05 |
| 1 app × 1 country × 1,000 reviews | $0.10 |
| 10 apps × 3 countries × 1,000 reviews | $3.00 |
| 100,000 stored reviews | $10.00 |

The actual charge is usually lower — you are billed only for reviews that exist and are stored. Set `maxCostPerRun` for a hard budget cap; the run stops before exceeding it. The estimated maximum is also printed to the log at the start of every run.

### Input

Minimal:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069" }]
}
```

Full example:

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069" }],
  "appIds": ["378084485"],
  "countries": ["us", "kr", "jp"],
  "language": "en-US",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
  "includeAuthorName": false,
  "maxCostPerRun": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}
```

This example covers 2 apps × 3 countries × up to 1,000 reviews each — at most 6,000 stored reviews, i.e. at most $0.60.

| Field | Default | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| `startUrls` / `appIds` | — | At least one App Store app URL or numeric app ID. De-duplicated automatically. |
| `countries` | `us`, or the country in each URL | Two-letter storefront codes. |
| `language` | storefront default | Response language hint. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | `200` | Per app **per country**. You receive whatever reviews Apple currently serves within this limit. |
| `includeAuthorName` | `false` | Reviewer public display name; excluded by default for privacy. |
| `maxCostPerRun` | no cap | Hard USD budget cap, enforced before requests are made. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | none | Optional. Datacenter proxies are sufficient; residential proxies are never selected automatically. |

### Output

One record per review:

```json
{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "12476009023",
  "appId": "6448311069",
  "appName": "ChatGPT",
  "appUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
  "requestedCountry": "us",
  "resolvedCountry": "us",
  "requestedLanguage": null,
  "resolvedLanguage": null,
  "source": "amp",
  "fallbackUsed": false,
  "title": "Amazing for college",
  "text": "…",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewedAt": "2025-03-28T21:44:08Z",
  "isEdited": false,
  "appVersion": null,
  "developerResponse": null,
  "developerResponseAt": null,
  "collectedAt": "2026-08-26T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

Field notes — only values present in Apple's response are stored; anything missing is `null`, never invented:

- `source: "amp"` (primary) provides `isEdited` and, when Apple returns one, `developerResponse` / `developerResponseAt`. It does not provide the review's `appVersion`.
- `source: "rss"` (fallback) provides `appVersion`; it does not provide `isEdited` or developer replies.
- Review order follows Apple's response order and is **not** guaranteed to be strictly sorted by date.
- An app missing from a requested storefront produces an uncharged `type: "error"` record with `reason: "APP_NOT_FOUND_IN_COUNTRY"` — a country that returns nothing is explained, not silent.
- A fallback produces an uncharged `type: "notice"` record (`notice: "AMP_UNAVAILABLE_RSS_FALLBACK"`) so reduced coverage is never silent.

### Known limitations

- **No "all reviews" claim.** Apple's public endpoints serve a subset of all historical reviews. You get the available reviews within your requested limit — availability varies by app and country and can change over time.
- The primary source is an unofficial path used by Apple's own web store; Apple may change or restrict it at any time. If that happens, the actor degrades to the documented RSS fallback (~500 recent reviews per country) instead of breaking.
- Apple throttles bursts (HTTP 429). The actor paces requests, retries with exponential backoff, and rotates proxy sessions — heavy runs get slower rather than failing.
- Total per-app review depth has been verified into the thousands, but no fixed upper bound is guaranteed.

### Development

```bash
npm install
npm run build
npm run typecheck
npm run test:fixtures   # offline, anonymized-fixture regression
```

Local run: put an input JSON at `storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json`, then `npm run start`.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Apple App Store app URLs, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069. Country in the URL is used unless you set Countries below.

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

Numeric App Store app IDs (alternative to URLs).

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

Two-letter storefront country codes (e.g. us, kr, jp). Default: us, or the country from each URL.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Optional response language hint (e.g. en-US, ko). Defaults to the storefront's own language.

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

Upper bound of reviews stored per app per country. Default 200. You get whatever reviews Apple currently serves within this limit — availability varies per app and country. Price example: 2 apps x 3 countries x 500 = at most 3,000 reviews = at most $0.30 at $0.10 per 1,000 reviews; only unique stored reviews are charged.

## `includeAuthorName` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default for privacy. Turn on only if you need the public display name.

## `maxCostPerRun` (type: `integer`):

Hard budget cap in USD. Collection stops before this would be exceeded (computed from the per-review price of this actor's pay-per-event pricing).

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

Optional Apify proxy settings. Datacenter proxies are sufficient; residential proxies are never selected automatically.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069"
    }
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "includeAuthorName": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("huggable_quote/apple-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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("huggable_quote/apple-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call huggable_quote/apple-app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,huggable_quote/apple-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/FuQRoPBGLnfOdcuMY/builds/cRTiiyhaXD5eqSetV/openapi.json