# App Store Scraper: Search Rankings, App Details, Top Charts (`krasyn-side/app-store-search-scraper`) Actor

Search the Apple App Store by keyword (with rank position), look up app details, list all apps by a developer, and pull Top Free / Top Paid charts for any country. Ratings, rating counts, price, genre, version, release dates, size, screenshots. Official Apple iTunes Search API, no proxies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/krasyn-side/app-store-search-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Krasyn Labs](https://apify.com/krasyn-side) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Developer tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 app 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.

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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.

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# README

## App Store Scraper: Search Rankings, App Details & Top Charts

Search the Apple App Store by keyword and see **which apps rank, in what position**, look up **full details for any app**, list **every app by a developer**, and pull Apple's **Top Free / Top Paid charts** for any country. Built for ASO research, competitor tracking, market sizing and app-intelligence dashboards.

### What you get (one row per app)

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `source`, `searchTerm`, `rank` | `search`, `habit tracker`, `3` (or `chart:top-free`, `lookup`, `developer`) |
| `name`, `appId`, `bundleId`, `url` | Instagram, 389801252, com.burbn.instagram |
| `developer`, `developerId`, `developerUrl`, `sellerName`, `sellerUrl` | Instagram, Inc. |
| `price`, `currency`, `formattedPrice` | 0, USD, Free |
| `rating`, `ratingCount`, `ratingCurrentVersion`, `ratingCountCurrentVersion` | 4.69, 28,000,000 |
| `primaryGenre`, `genres`, `contentRating` | Photo & Video |
| `version`, `releaseDate`, `currentVersionReleaseDate`, `releaseNotes` | |
| `minimumOsVersion`, `fileSizeMb`, `languages`, `isGameCenterEnabled` | |
| `iconUrl`, `screenshotUrls`, `ipadScreenshotUrls`, `description` (optional) | |
| `country`, `scrapedAt` | us |

### Input

- **Search keywords**: e.g. `habit tracker`, `budget app`. Rank = position in Apple's search API results for that storefront.
- **App IDs or URLs**: details lookup (batched, up to 150 apps per request).
- **Developer IDs or URLs**: all apps of a developer.
- **Top charts**: `top-free`, `top-paid` (iPhone), with chart rank.
- **Countries**: any two-letter storefront code (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `jp`, ...). Everything runs once per country.
- **Max results per keyword / chart**: up to 200 (Apple's limit).
- **Platform**: iPhone/iPad or Mac App Store (search only).

Example:

```json
{ "searchTerms": ["habit tracker"], "topCharts": ["top-free"], "countries": ["us"], "maxResultsPerSearch": 25 }
```

Schedule it daily to track keyword rankings and chart positions over time.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$0.001 per app row** ($1 per 1,000 apps). No start fee. Plus the small Apify platform compute usage (runs on 256 MB).

### Data source and limits

- Uses only Apple's official public endpoints: the **iTunes Search API / Lookup API** and Apple's **RSS marketing-tools charts feed**. No login, no API key, no HTML scraping, no proxies.
- Search rank is the order returned by the iTunes Search API, which closely tracks but is not guaranteed to be identical to the in-app App Store search on a device (Apple personalizes and A/B-tests in-app results).
- Apple caps results at 200 per keyword and per chart, and asks clients to stay around 20 requests per minute, so the actor paces itself (about 1.5 s between requests). Large jobs take proportionally longer.
- No download or revenue estimates: Apple does not publish them, and this actor does not invent them.
- Data is what Apple publishes publicly. The actor collects no personal data beyond the developer/seller names Apple shows on store pages.

### Related

- [App Store Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/krasyn-side/app-store-reviews-scraper): recent reviews for any app and country.

### About

Built and maintained by an AI agent (Claude, by Anthropic) operated by Krasyn LLC. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. App Store is a trademark of Apple Inc. Issues and feature requests: please use the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

App Store search keywords. Each result row includes its rank position for that keyword (as returned by Apple's iTunes Search API).

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

Get full details for specific apps: numeric IDs (e.g. 284882215) or URLs (e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252).

## `developers` (type: `array`):

List every app of a developer, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/meta-platforms-inc/id284882218 or 284882218.

## `topCharts` (type: `array`):

Apple's official Top Free / Top Paid iPhone app charts for each country (with chart rank).

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

Two-letter App Store country codes, e.g. us, gb, de, fr, jp, in, br. Every search/lookup/chart runs once per country. Default: us.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Apple returns at most 200 results per keyword and 200 apps per chart.

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Search the iOS App Store or the Mac App Store.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Turn off for smaller rows when you only need metadata and rankings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker"
  ],
  "topCharts": [
    "top-free"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25,
  "platform": "iphone",
  "includeDescription": true
}
```

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "habit tracker"
    ],
    "topCharts": [
        "top-free"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("krasyn-side/app-store-search-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"],
    "topCharts": ["top-free"],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("krasyn-side/app-store-search-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"
  ],
  "topCharts": [
    "top-free"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 25
}' |
apify call krasyn-side/app-store-search-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,krasyn-side/app-store-search-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/2En5DDSUV8zERXLBS/builds/IPkgHuJ8vsi6RaNbs/openapi.json