Shopify App Store & Theme Store Scraper

Export Shopify App Store listings and Shopify Theme Store listings as clean, structured rows. Pick a category (or a theme collection), and every app or theme comes back with its rating, review count, pricing line, tagline, developer and Built for Shopify badge - ready for CSV, JSON or Excel. Use it for Shopify app market research, competitor tracking, app store SEO and category monitoring, partner prospecting, or building a dataset of the Shopify ecosystem.

Apps and themes share one schema, so type: "app" and type: "theme" rows sit in the same dataset and the same spreadsheet columns.

What you get

One row per app or theme.

Field	Type	Description
type	string	app or theme.
name	string	Listing name as shown in the store.
developer	string | null	App developer / theme designer. Apps: only when Also open each app's page to get the developer is enabled (see Input), and can still be null on a row whose detail page was throttled. Themes: filled whenever the theme's detail page loads.
developerUrl	string | null	The developer's page on the store (/partners/... for apps, /designers/... for themes). Same rule as developer.
handle	string	URL slug, e.g. judgeme, prestige. Stable primary key.
url	string	Canonical listing URL, with Shopify's tracking parameters removed.
tagline	string | null	The one-line pitch under the listing name.
category	string	The category or collection slug this row was collected from.
rating	number | null	Star rating out of 5. Apps only - the Theme Store does not publish stars (see positivePercent).
reviewCount	number | null	Number of reviews. For a theme with several presets this is Shopify's "reviews for all presets" total.
positivePercent	number | null	Themes only - Shopify's "% positive" merchant score, 0-100. Always null for apps.
pricingSummary	string | null	The pricing line exactly as the store shows it: Free, Free plan available, Free to install, Free trial available, $39/month, or $300 one-time for a paid theme.
priceFrom	number | null	The number parsed out of pricingSummary. 0 for free / freemium, the monthly or one-time amount when the store shows one, null when the card only says "Free trial available" (the store does not print the price there).
builtForShopify	boolean	Whether the listing carries Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. Always false for themes - that badge is an App Store programme.
iconUrl	string | null	App icon, or the theme's preview image.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of the run.

A SUMMARY record is written to the run's key-value store with the sources used, how many rows were written, how many requests were throttled, and whether the run stopped on its time budget.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	apps	apps scrapes apps.shopify.com, themes scrapes themes.shopify.com. Anything else is treated as apps.
categories	string list	["store-design-site-optimization-seo"]	App Store category slugs, or Theme Store collection slugs in themes mode. Empty falls back to one fast sample category. Full category URLs work too.
maxItems	integer	60	Total rows across all selected categories.
includeDetails	boolean	false	Open each app's own page to read the developer name. Costs one extra request per app. Ignored in themes mode, where the detail page is always loaded.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	boolean	false	Return only listings this Actor has not returned before for the same mode and category set.
maxRunSeconds	integer	240	Wall-clock budget. The crawl stops cleanly when it runs out and keeps everything collected so far.

Where do category slugs come from? The App Store's own sitemap lists all of them: https://apps.shopify.com/sitemap_categories_en.xml. Examples: store-design-site-optimization-seo, marketing-and-conversion-marketing-email-marketing, orders-and-shipping-shipping-solutions-shipping, store-management-operations-workflow-automation. Third-level (leaf) categories are the paginated ones and can return hundreds of apps. A top-level or mid-level slug like store-design has no browse grid on Shopify's side; the Actor detects that and reads the curated category page instead, which is about 30 apps on one page.

Theme collections: free-themes, trending-themes, new-themes, horizon-themes, large-inventory, small-inventory (see https://themes.shopify.com/sitemap_collection_en.xml), or the keyword all for the main /themes page.

Example output

An app row (mode: apps, includeDetails: true):

{
  "type": "app",
  "name": "Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS",
  "developer": "Klaviyo",
  "developerUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/partners/klaviyo",
  "handle": "klaviyo-email-marketing",
  "url": "https://apps.shopify.com/klaviyo-email-marketing",
  "tagline": "Email marketing, SMS, & WhatsApp that turn messages into sales",
  "category": "marketing-and-conversion-marketing-email-marketing",
  "rating": 4.7,
  "reviewCount": 3319,
  "positivePercent": null,
  "pricingSummary": "Free to install",
  "priceFrom": 0,
  "builtForShopify": false,
  "iconUrl": "https://cdn.shopify.com/app-store/listing_images/5edd9000b933a8fa88c152d1e498531f/icon/CP6B2OOv3PYCEAE=.png",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T01:02:45.424Z"
}

A theme row (mode: themes, categories: ["trending-themes"]):

{
  "type": "theme",
  "name": "Vivid",
  "developer": "Slash Themes",
  "developerUrl": "https://themes.shopify.com/designers/slashthemes",
  "handle": "vivid",
  "url": "https://themes.shopify.com/themes/vivid/presets/vivid",
  "tagline": "Exceptional design and powerful features to elevate your brand",
  "category": "trending-themes",
  "rating": null,
  "reviewCount": 90,
  "positivePercent": 96,
  "pricingSummary": "$300 one-time",
  "priceFrom": 300,
  "builtForShopify": false,
  "iconUrl": "https://cdn.shopify.com/theme-store/w0pa1h0bb3opczjgmmkf8wizcavv.jpg?width=600",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-24T01:05:38.866Z"
}

FAQ

Does this scrape App Store search results? No. apps.shopify.com/robots.txt contains Disallow: *q=* for all user agents, so search-result URLs are off limits and this Actor never requests one - it refuses at the request layer, not just by convention. Discovery is done through category pages, theme collection pages and Shopify's published sitemaps. If you need a keyword view, pull a category and filter the rows yourself.

Why is developer empty on my app rows? Because includeDetails was off. A category card contains everything except the developer name, so filling that column costs one extra request per app. apps.shopify.com throttles above roughly two requests a second, which is why it is opt-in: 60 apps take about 2 seconds without it and about 90-100 seconds with it (measured 2026-09-23: 95s for 60 apps, 61 requests, 18 of them throttled and retried). Turn it on and raise maxRunSeconds for large jobs. When Shopify throttles hard a few rows can still come back with developer: null - the Actor keeps the listing row rather than failing the run. Theme rows include the developer whenever the theme's detail page loads, because a theme card carries almost nothing and the detail page has to be read anyway.

Why is rating null for themes? The Shopify Theme Store does not publish a 5-star score. It publishes a "% positive" merchant rating and a review count, so those land in positivePercent and reviewCount, and rating stays null rather than being invented from the percentage.

How does onlyNewSinceLastRun work? The Actor remembers the handles it has already returned for that mode and category set in a named key-value store. On the next run it looks at the same window - the top maxItems listings of each selected category - and returns only the handles it has not returned before. A run where nothing changed finishes successfully with an empty dataset; that is the "no new apps" answer, not a failure. The first run always returns everything.

Do you return developer emails or phone numbers? No. This Actor collects listing data only. It does not scrape contact details, does not crawl partner contact pages, and does not enrich rows with personal data.

What happens if the run hits its time limit? It stops cleanly, keeps every row already written, logs how far it got, and records stoppedOnTime: true in SUMMARY. Runs are not lost; re-run with a bigger maxRunSeconds or a smaller maxItems.

Data source, access and limits

• Source: the public HTML of apps.shopify.com and themes.shopify.com (English pages), plus Shopify's published sitemaps for the category and collection lists. No API key, no Shopify account, no login, no Partner access required.
• robots.txt is honored. No URL with a q= parameter is ever requested (App Store search), no query string is ever put on /themes (Theme Store filter URLs), and Shopify's surface_* tracking parameters are stripped from the URLs it does request. These checks are enforced in code before each request.
• Promoted placements are excluded. Shopify mixes up to four paid placements into a category page; they are duplicates of organic listings and are dropped, so a page yields its organic listings only.
• Rate limits. Shopify starts returning HTTP 429 above roughly two requests a second, so requests are paced and retried. That sets the speed: 60 listing rows in about 2 seconds (3 requests), or the same 60 rows with developer lookups in about 95 seconds (61 requests, 18 of which were throttled and retried) - a bit over one app per second once detail pages are on. Timings were measured from a residential IP; Apify's datacenter IPs may be throttled harder. Persistent throttling makes the Actor finish with the listing data rather than fail.
• Coverage. Leaf categories paginate at 20 organic apps per page, and this Actor reads at most 40 pages per category - about 800 apps from any single category. To go past that, or to reach the 5000-row maxItems ceiling, pass several categories. Parent categories have no browse grid and return the ~25-30 apps Shopify curates on that one page. The Theme Store main page and each collection are single pages of roughly 20-25 themes.
• Structure changes. This Actor parses HTML. If Shopify changes its markup it fails loudly with an error naming the page and the marker it looked for, instead of writing empty or garbage rows.
• Billing. Runs are billed per result on the Apify platform, on top of your Apify plan's usage. Nothing here is free to run.
• Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify Inc. "Shopify", "Shopify App Store" and "Built for Shopify" are trademarks of Shopify Inc., used here only to describe the public pages this Actor reads.