# App Store App Metadata — Prices, Versions & Ratings (`kaz_kakyo/app-store-metadata`) Actor

Look up iOS app metadata across storefronts: upfront prices, versions, ratings, minimum OS and language codes. Capped app-country pairs; missing apps are uncharged. No reviews or developer contacts. $1 per 1,000 returned pairs plus start.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kaz\_kakyo/app-store-metadata.md
- **Developed by:** [Heim AI](https://apify.com/kaz_kakyo) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 app-country metadata returneds

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 App Metadata — Prices, Versions & Ratings

Export a known list of **iOS/iPadOS apps across App Store storefronts**. Each result contains the upfront price and currency, current version, rating and rating count, minimum OS version, genre IDs, language codes and original App Store URL.

Use this for app catalog research, country price comparisons and version checks. You provide the apps; this actor does not discover apps, track keyword rankings, extract reviews or collect developer contacts.

### Quick start

```json
{"appIds":["571800810","425073498"],"countries":["us","gb"],"maxResults":4}
```

This requests Calm and Procreate in the US and UK: at most four paid records. IDs and `https://apps.apple.com/.../id123` URLs are accepted. Duplicates are removed. Supported storefronts: `us`, `gb`, `sg`, `ca`, `au`, `de`, `fr`, `jp`, `in`, `br`, `es`, `it`, `nl`, `se`, `no`, `dk`, `fi`, `kr`, `nz`, `mx`.

### Price and limits

**$0.001 per returned app-country pair ($1/1,000), plus the configured $0.00005 platform start event.** Four returned pairs cost $0.00405. Missing apps, invalid entries and status rows have no work-event charge. Upfront app price excludes subscriptions and in-app purchases: a returned price of zero does not mean all app features are free.

Limit a request with `maxResults` (1–200, default100) and the Console's maximum-charge setting. Input limits are 100 app entries, 10 countries and 200 unique app-country pairs. Requests use batches, conservative pacing and a fixed source-request cap; larger or repeatedly missing inputs can finish with partial results. Once the budget is exhausted, no additional paid records are delivered.

### Reading the output

The default dataset contains only returned app metadata. `recordId` is `country/appId`; use it for joins. **Check the separate free Status dataset and `OUTPUT.complete`**, even when the run succeeds. Status distinguishes invalid input, an incomplete source record, a source failure, an app not returned after batch and individual lookup, and a budget or request limit.

Ratings and prices are storefront-specific values **as served by Apple's cached API at `fetchedAt`**. Do not sum ratings across countries. Null means unavailable; zero remains zero. Language codes do not distinguish every script. `versionReleasedAt` is the current version's source timestamp, not a complete version history. The actor supports source records of kind `software` (iOS/iPadOS); Mac-only and other media records are not billed.

A missing result does not establish why an app is absent or whether it is legally or technically unavailable in that country. A missing health-check record is reported as source uncertainty instead of classifying the whole batch as missing.

### API and automation

Run `kaz_kakyo/app-store-metadata` through the Apify API, CLI, MCP or your automation platform with the JSON above. Export the dataset as JSON or CSV. Scheduling produces fresh snapshots; **the same found app-country pair is charged again on a new run**. This actor has no persistent change-only monitor.

Source: [Apple iTunes Search and Lookup API](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/iTuneSearchAPI/index.html). No Apple account, API key or proxy is required. No icons, screenshots, descriptions, release notes, seller identities or reviews are exported. Keep the original source links; this actor is not affiliated with Apple. Source access and availability can change.

Pseudonymous operational telemetry records actor and run IDs, run origin, timestamps, paying-plan status, a stable hashed caller identifier, and cumulative confirmed event counts. These identifiers are linkable, not anonymous. The telemetry dataset restricts unauthenticated access. Input and result content is not sent. For interrupted paid delivery, resurrect the **same run** so its pending records can be recovered without a second charge.

New source work has an internal three-minute budget with time reserved to save output; a larger platform timeout does not extend it. Keep run storage intact when resurrecting. Invalid saved limits stop new work after pending paid records have been recovered.

# Actor input Schema

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

Known iOS/iPadOS app IDs or apps.apple.com URLs. No keyword search.

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

1–10 lowercase codes: us, gb, sg, ca, au, de, fr, jp, in, br, es, it, nl, se, no, dk, fi, kr, nz, mx. Maximum 200 app-country pairs.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on paid app-country records. Status and missing records are free.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIds": [
    "571800810",
    "425073498"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ],
  "maxResults": 100
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Only successfully returned records, with all fields.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Check complete and stop reasons even when the run succeeds or results are empty.

# 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 = {
    "appIds": [
        "571800810",
        "425073498"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kaz_kakyo/app-store-metadata").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 = {
    "appIds": [
        "571800810",
        "425073498",
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kaz_kakyo/app-store-metadata").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 '{
  "appIds": [
    "571800810",
    "425073498"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ]
}' |
apify call kaz_kakyo/app-store-metadata --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/hKLDtZXS8jK3TYMhN/builds/J3DtfRj8JdYoz7bek/openapi.json