App Store App Search (iTunes API): prices, ratings, versions

App Store App Data Search: prices, ratings and versions by country

This Actor searches Apple's App Store by keyword in any of 49 storefront countries and returns app data as a clean dataset. It reads the public iTunes Search API at itunes.apple.com and gives you each app's developer, price and currency, average rating and rating count, version, release dates, genre, size, minimum iOS and store URL. It is for ASO specialists, app-market analysts and anyone tracking competitor apps.

Use cases

• An ASO manager runs the keyword for their category every week in the US, UK and DE storefronts to see which apps show up, how they are rated and which versions they shipped.
• A mobile product analyst pulls the apps for a search term before a roadmap review, to compare rating counts, app size and minimum iOS version.
• A price tracker runs the same search each day in several countries to compare price and currency for the same kind of app.
• An investor or market researcher searches a niche such as "meditation" each quarter and checks which developers hold the most-rated apps and how recently they updated.
• A competitor-watch team checks the version and version release date of rival apps every Monday to spot new releases.

What you get

One record per app, with 21 typed fields. Values that fail a type check (for example a rating outside 0–5) are dropped rather than passed on. Example result:

{
  "app_id": 587366035,
  "name": "Picsart: KI Bilder bearbeiten",
  "developer": "PicsArt, Inc.",
  "developer_id": 587366038,
  "bundle_id": "com.picsart.studio",
  "price": 0.0,
  "formatted_price": "Gratis",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "average_rating": 4.53144,
  "rating_count": 107870,
  "average_rating_current_version": 4.53144,
  "rating_count_current_version": 107870,
  "version": "30.9.2",
  "version_release_date": "2026-10-06T04:02:28",
  "release_date": "2013-01-02T22:14:40",
  "primary_genre": "Photo & Video",
  "size_bytes": 270485504.0,
  "minimum_os": "15.0",
  "content_rating": "12+",
  "seller_name": "PicsArt, Inc.",
  "store_url": "https://apps.apple.com/de/app/picsart-ki-bilder-bearbeiten/id587366035?uo=4"
}

In three test runs (keyword "budget" in us, "meditation" in gb, "photo editor" in de; 107 apps in total) every field listed above was filled in 100% of items.

Input

• term: the keyword to search for in the App Store, for example budget, photo editor or meditation.
• country: the two-letter App Store country code. It sets the prices, currency and ratings returned.
• limit: how many apps to ask Apple for (Apple allows up to 200 per search).
• maxItems: stop after this many results, which keeps a run's size predictable.

Why this one

It reads Apple's own JSON API, so one request returns the whole result list: 47 apps from a single request in the "budget" test run, with no browser and no login. The incumbent is epctex/appstore-scraper. Here the fields are typed and range-checked (ratings 0–5, prices 0–1000), and each record carries the app's bundle ID, developer ID, release dates, size and minimum iOS version, all filled in every item of the three test runs.

Legal

It reads only Apple's public iTunes Search API (itunes.apple.com/search), documented at https://performance-partners.apple.com/search-api. It collects app metadata only: no reviews, no logins and no personal data. Requests are spaced out to stay well within Apple's documented rate of about 20 calls a minute, and the program reads robots.txt before it fetches. Apple's terms for the API are noted here for your information. Use the data as the source's terms allow.

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