Apple Books & Music Price Monitor

What does Apple Books & Music Price Monitor do?

Apple Books & Music Price Monitor searches Apple Store, the worldwide marketplace, for any item and collects the matching listings. Each row has the title, price, currency, description, location, category, condition, seller name, photos, posting time and the listing link. Add several search terms, filter by minimum and maximum price, and turn on monitor mode so a scheduled run returns only listings that are new or whose price dropped since the previous run.

Why use Apple Books & Music Price Monitor?

• Find deals on Apple Store the moment they are listed instead of refreshing the site.
• Track several searches at once with separate limits and a shared price range.
• Price-drop alerts show when an already-seen listing becomes cheaper.
• Clean structured rows for resellers, price trackers, spreadsheets and Telegram or Discord bots.
• No account or login needed.

What makes this different

Built for hunting deals rather than one-off exports: it searches many terms in one run, keeps a baseline per search between runs, and reports only new listings and real price drops in monitor mode. Prices are normalised to numbers in USD.

How it works

1. Your input — type one or more search terms and optional price filters.
2. The Actor collects it — the Actor searches Apple Store for each term, newest first, and applies your filters.
3. Your output — you get one clean row per listing, or only new listings and price drops in monitor mode.

What data can you extract?

The dataset has 20 fields per row:

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Apple Store listing ID.
title	string	Listing title.
url	string	Listing page.
price	number	Asking price in USD.
currency	string	ISO currency code.
description	string	Listing description.
location	string	Location shown on the listing.
city	string	City of the listing.
category	string	Listing category.
condition	string	Item condition, when the seller states one.
sellerName	string	Seller display name.
isShippable	boolean	True when the seller offers shipping.
postedAt	string	When the listing was posted or last refreshed (ISO 8601 UTC).
imageUrl	string	Main image URL.
imageUrls	array	Up to 10 image URLs.
attributes	array	Extra Apple Store attributes as name/value pairs.
searchTerm	string	The search term that found the listing.
priceDropAmount	number	How much cheaper than the previous run; null if not cheaper.
priceDropPercent	number	Percent cheaper than the previous run.
isNewToWatch	boolean	True the first time this listing appears in this search.

How to use Apple Books & Music Price Monitor

1. Open the Actor and go to the Input tab.
2. Enter one or more Search terms, for example dune.
3. Optionally set filters and a Max results limit.
4. Click Start. A default run finishes in under a minute.
5. Open the Output tab, then download the dataset or connect it to your tools.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
searchTerms	array	No	["dune"]	One or more things to search Apple Store for, in English or the local language of the storefront, e.g. "dune", "stephen king", "sherlock holmes". Max results applies to each term separately.
minPrice	number	No	—	Only return listings priced at or above this amount in USD. Listings without a price are skipped when a price filter is set.
maxPrice	number	No	—	Only return listings priced at or below this amount in USD. Listings without a price are skipped when a price filter is set.
media	string	No	"ebook"	Which part of the Apple store to search.
storefront	string	No	"us"	Two-letter country code of the store, for example us, gb, de, fr, ca, au or jp. Prices come back in that store's currency.
sortBy	string	No	"relevance"	Order of the results.
maxItems	integer	No	20	Stop once this many listings have been written to the dataset for each search term.
monitorMode	boolean	No	false	When on, the run compares against the previous monitored run of the same search and returns only listings that are new or whose price fell by at least the drop threshold. Turn this on for scheduled runs.
minDropPercent	number	No	5	In monitor mode, report a price drop on an already-seen listing only when it is at least this many percent.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":false}	Optional. Apple Store works without a proxy at normal volumes.

Output Data

Prices are numbers in USD. postedAt is ISO 8601 UTC when the marketplace provides a timestamp. Fields the listing does not have, such as condition or isShippable, are null.

A real dataset item:

{
    "id": "597944491",
    "title": "Dune",
    "url": "https://books.apple.com/us/book/dune/id597944491?uo=4",
    "price": 9.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "description": "Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.\n\nSet on the…",
    "location": null,
    "city": null,
    "category": "Science Fiction",
    "condition": null,
    "sellerName": "Frank Herbert",
    "isShippable": null,
    "postedAt": "1975-09-01T07:00:00Z",
    "imageUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Publication122/v4/85/70/2f/85702f34-2982-e2ee-d883-b5ffc3ae0897/9781101658055.d.jpg/600x600bb.jpg",
    "imageUrls": [
        "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Publication122/v4/85/70/2f/85702f34-2982-e2ee-d883-b5ffc3ae0897/9781101658055.d.jpg/600x600bb.jpg"
    ],
    "attributes": [
        {
            "name": "kind",
            "value": "ebook"
        },
        {
            "name": "genres",
            "value": "Science Fiction, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Classics"
        },
        {
            "name": "rating",
            "value": 4.5
        },
        {
            "name": "ratingCount",
            "value": 8244
        }
    ],
    "searchTerm": "dune",
    "priceDropAmount": null,
    "priceDropPercent": null,
    "isNewToWatch": true
}

Usage Examples

Latest "dune" listings

{
    "searchTerms": ["dune"]
}

"stephen king" under 8 USD

{
    "searchTerms": ["stephen king"],
    "maxPrice": 8,
    "sortBy": "relevance"
}

Hourly alert for new listings and price drops

{
    "searchTerms": ["dune", "stephen king", "sherlock holmes"],
    "monitorMode": true,
    "maxItems": 50
}

Tips for Best Results

• Schedule monitor mode every 10 to 60 minutes and send new rows to Telegram, Discord or Slack.
• Use specific terms (brand and model) to keep the results relevant.
• Keep the same search terms and price range between scheduled runs - the baseline is kept per search.
• Search in English or the local language of the storefront, the language listings are written in.

Known Limitations

• Only listings that Apple Store shows in its public search are returned.
• Each search returns up to 200 results, in the store's own order; there is no other sort order.
• Prices are the current store price in the currency of the chosen country.
• Free items have a price of 0.
• Location and seller are not part of results, so those fields are null.
• Movies are not included because the store does not list them in search.
• Some listings have no price or condition; those fields are null.
• Prices are in USD and are not converted.
• Sold and removed listings disappear from search, so they are not reported.

Integrations

Run it from the Apify API, on a schedule, or from a webhook. Send results straight to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack or your own database with Apify's built-in integrations.

Export Formats

Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML table or RSS from the Output tab or the API.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I scrape Apple Store listings?

Enter one or more search terms and run the Actor. Each matching listing is returned with price, location, photos and seller.

How do I get alerts for new listings?

Turn on Monitor mode and schedule the run. Each run returns only listings that earlier runs of the same search did not report.

Can I get price-drop alerts?

Yes. In monitor mode a listing you have seen before is returned again when its price falls by at least your threshold.

Can I filter by price?

Yes. Set a minimum and maximum price in the marketplace currency.

How many results can I get?

The default is 20 listings per search term. Raise Max results to collect more; the marketplace itself limits how deep a search goes.

How fresh is the data?

It is read live from Apple Store on every run.

Does it remove duplicates?

Yes. Each listing appears once per run.

Do I need an account or login?

No. The Actor collects public Apple Store search results and needs no account, cookies or API key.

Am I charged for failed runs or empty results?

You are only charged for results that are actually written to the dataset.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes. Create a Task with your input and add a schedule in Apify Console. With monitor mode on, each scheduled run returns only what changed since the previous one.

Support

Questions or a missing field? Open an issue from the Issues tab on this Actor's page and it will be looked at.

Legal / Responsible Use

You are responsible for using the collected data in line with Apple Store's terms and applicable law. Listings can include sellers' names and locations, which may be personal data; you are responsible for applicable privacy law such as GDPR for anything you store or contact. The Actor is not affiliated with Apple Store.