# Apple App Store Reviews Scraper: Multi-Country, Incremental (`northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country.md
- **Developed by:** [Northgrid Data](https://apify.com/northgrid-data) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 review scrapeds

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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Apple App Store Reviews: multi-country, incremental

Pull customer reviews for any iOS app from Apple's public customer-reviews feed, across one or many storefronts in a single run.

**Good for:** tracking your own app's feedback by country, watching competitors' 1–2 star reviews, feeding reviews to your own analysis.

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

`appId, appName, country, reviewId, author, rating, title, text, version, voteCount, voteSum, date, url`

### Features

- **Many countries in one run**: pass `["us","gb","de"]` or `"all"` to sweep every storefront.
- **Filters**: star range, reviews since a date, keyword match.
- **Incremental mode** (`onlyNewSinceLastRun`): with a schedule, each run returns only reviews newer than the last run, per country.
- **Cost cap**: `maxTotalReviews`. You are charged per review returned, nothing for empty results.

### Example input

```json
{ "apps": ["389801252"], "countries": ["us", "gb"], "maxReviewsPerCountry": 100, "maxRating": 2 }
```

### Limits (honest)

- Apple's public feed exposes at most the latest ~500 reviews per app per country (10 pages × 50). Older reviews and developer replies are not available from it.
- Only reviews with text that Apple publishes in the feed; no private/App Store Connect data.
- Uses Apple's public endpoints at a modest rate. If an app is missing in a storefront it returns nothing for it.

Found a bug or a missing field? Open an issue on this Actor; I answer quickly.

# Actor input Schema

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

App Store app IDs or URLs, e.g. 389801252 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252.

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

Two-letter storefront codes such as us, gb, de. Use the single value "all" to sweep every storefront.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order in which Apple returns reviews: newest first or most helpful first.

## `maxReviewsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Apple's public feed exposes at most 500 per app per country.

## `maxTotalReviews` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on total reviews returned across all apps and countries (controls cost).

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

Only return reviews with at least this star rating (1-5).

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

Only return reviews with at most this star rating (1-5).

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

e.g. 2026-09-01

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Keep reviews containing any of these words (title or text).

## `onlyNewSinceLastRun` (type: `boolean`):

Remembers the newest review per app between runs (sort must be mostRecent). Use with a schedule for monitoring.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ],
  "sortBy": "mostRecent",
  "maxReviewsPerCountry": 100,
  "maxTotalReviews": 1000,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (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"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country").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"],
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "gb",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country").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"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb"
  ]
}' |
apify call northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country"
        }
    }
}
```

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/Ad6IcfYwfz8QoKa1Q/builds/FTWdIv7SUB6JlgqUU/openapi.json