# Apple App Store Reviews Scraper — Fast, Cheap, Multi-Country (`kmscrape/app-store-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Apple App Store reviews and app details from any country storefront. Search by app name, ID or URL, filter by rating. No login. Ideal for sentiment analysis, product research and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kmscrape/app-store-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [kfir messika](https://apify.com/kmscrape) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Apple App Store Reviews Scraper — Fast, Cheap, Multi-Country

Fetch public App Store app details and recent customer reviews using Apple's lookup, search, and customer review RSS JSON feeds. No account or API key is needed.

### What it does

Give the Actor numeric App Store IDs or `apps.apple.com` URLs, choose storefront countries, or provide search terms to find apps by name. It writes one free app row per app and country and review rows for matching reviews. Review rows omit reviewer names and profile links. Invalid inputs and app/feed failures are reported as free error rows.

### Use cases

- ASO and rating research across storefronts
- Competitor research
- Product feedback monitoring
- AI sentiment analysis using review text

### Input examples

```json
{
  "apps": ["389801252", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube/id544007664"],
  "searchTerms": ["budget planner"],
  "searchLimit": 5,
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
  "sinceDate": "2026-09-01",
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5
}
```

`apps` defaults to Instagram (`389801252`) and YouTube (`544007664`). Search results are found in the first requested country, then those app IDs are looked up in each requested country. `sinceDate` filters reviews to dates after midnight UTC at the start of the specified date.

### Output examples

Trimmed app row:

```json
{"type":"app","appId":"389801252","name":"Instagram","developer":"Instagram, Inc.","country":"us","averageRating":4.69067,"ratingCount":29551373,"currentVersion":"449.0.0","price":0,"genre":"Photo & Video","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?uo=4"}
```

Trimmed review row:

```json
{"type":"review","appId":"389801252","appName":"Instagram","country":"us","reviewId":"14620555057","rating":1,"title":"photo comments","text":"i didnt get the update with the photo for comments","version":"448.0.0","date":"2026-10-02T22:52:23.000Z","voteSum":0,"voteCount":0}
```

Trimmed error row:

```json
{"type":"error","input":"bad-value","reason":"Expected a numeric App Store ID or apps.apple.com URL containing /id<digits>"}
```

App rows are free. Reviews are deduplicated by `reviewId`. Error rows are free.

### Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 review rows, configured as the `review-result` pay-per-event in Apify Console. App and error rows are free. Local runs also work when pay-per-event pricing is not configured.

### Limits

Apple's public customer review feed exposes up to 10 pages of about 50 latest reviews each: roughly 500 latest reviews per app per country. This is a feed limit; older reviews may not be available even if the app has many more ratings. Apple can return fewer entries or an empty feed, and access can be rate-limited. The Actor retries HTTP 429 and 5xx responses, but cannot guarantee feed availability.

### FAQ

**Can I search by app name?** Yes. Set `searchTerms`; up to `searchLimit` results per term are found in the first selected country.

**Can I filter by rating or date?** Yes. Set `minRating`, `maxRating`, and/or `sinceDate`.

**Are reviewer names or profiles included?** No. They are intentionally omitted.

**Why are there no review rows for an app?** The public feed may be empty, rate-limited, or unavailable for that app and storefront. When page 1 is empty although lookup reports ratings, an error row warns that the feed may be rate-limited.

**Does it fetch all historic reviews?** No. Apple exposes only a limited set of the most recent reviews through this feed, up to approximately 500 per app and country.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

Provide Apple App Store URLs containing an id, or numeric App Store IDs.

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

Find apps by name (e.g. "meditation") and scrape the top results. Optional.

## `searchLimit` (type: `integer`):

How many apps to take from each search term.

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

Two-letter App Store country codes, e.g. us, gb, de. Reviews are fetched separately per country.

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

Maximum reviews per app per country. Apple public feed returns up to about 500 most recent reviews.

## `sinceDate` (type: `string`):

Only return reviews newer than this date. Optional.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Only return reviews with at least this many stars (1-5). Optional.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Only return reviews with at most this many stars (1-5). Optional.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "389801252",
    "544007664"
  ],
  "searchLimit": 5,
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "apps": [
        "389801252",
        "544007664"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kmscrape/app-store-reviews-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 = { "apps": [
        "389801252",
        "544007664",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kmscrape/app-store-reviews-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 '{
  "apps": [
    "389801252",
    "544007664"
  ]
}' |
apify call kmscrape/app-store-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kmscrape/app-store-reviews-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/4MRSg0heSzMworwqB/builds/0E98IZG1Te3MiaWQM/openapi.json