# App Store Reviews Scraper - Low-Star Filter, All Countries (`obliging_resilience/app-store-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape customer reviews of any iPhone/iPad app from the public Apple App Store feed: rating, title, text, version, author, date, helpful votes. Many apps and countries per run. No login, no API keys.

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

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 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

## App Store Reviews Scraper (iOS app reviews, no login)

You get **public Apple App Store reviews for any iPhone or iPad app as clean JSON/CSV**: rating, title, text, app version, author, date and helpful votes. Many apps and countries in one run. No Apple account, no API key.
**Price: $0.40 per 1,000 reviews** (pay per event: `review` = $0.0004). Error rows are free.

### Why use it

- **Find what broke after a release**: filter 1-2 star reviews and group by `version`.
- **Competitor and market research**: compare your app with rivals, country by country.
- **Support triage and feature mining**: feed real user text into sentiment analysis or topic models on a schedule.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `apps` | Numeric app ids or `apps.apple.com` URLs (the number after `id`) |
| `countries` | Two-letter store codes, default `["us"]` |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | Max reviews per app and country, newest first (default 200, max 500) |
| `minRating` / `maxRating` | Optional star filters (1-5). Defaults 1 and 5 keep everything |
| `sinceDate` | Optional ISO date such as `2026-01-01`. Older reviews are skipped |

```json
{
  "apps": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252", "284882215"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb", "de"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 2,
  "sinceDate": "2026-01-01"
}
```

Error row example: `{ "app": "abc", "error": "Not a valid App Store app id or apps.apple.com URL." }`

### Example output

Illustrative row showing the real fields (values are sample data):

| appId | appName | country | reviewId | rating | title | text | version | author | date | voteSum | voteCount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 389801252 | Instagram | us | 1111111111 | 1 | Keeps crashing | Crashes on launch since the update. | 350.0.1 | angryUser | 2026-10-18T17:15:00.000Z | -1 | 9 |

Every row also has `reviewUrl` and `scrapedAt`.

```json
{
  "appId": "389801252", "appName": "Instagram", "country": "us", "reviewId": "1111111111",
  "title": "Keeps crashing", "text": "Crashes on launch since the update.", "rating": 1,
  "version": "350.0.1", "author": "angryUser", "date": "2026-10-18T17:15:00.000Z",
  "voteSum": -1, "voteCount": 9,
  "reviewUrl": "https://itunes.apple.com/us/review?id=389801252&type=Purple%20Software",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-20T05:56:37.786Z"
}
```

### Use with AI agents / MCP

Call this actor from any AI agent through the Apify MCP server (`https://mcp.apify.com`) or the Apify API, using the actor id `NCY19KG5Zb0pfxuxT`. An agent can ask "what do UK users hate about this app since the last update?". Output is flat JSON with stable ids (`reviewId`), so an agent can group by `version`, count 1-star reviews or summarise `text`. For daily monitoring, schedule the actor with `sinceDate` set to yesterday.

Sample tool input an agent can send:

```json
{
  "apps": ["389801252"],
  "countries": ["gb"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 2,
  "sinceDate": "2026-10-01"
}
```

### Limits and notes

- Apple's public feed shows the most recent written reviews only: up to 500 per app and country (10 pages of 50). Add countries to collect more.
- Written reviews only: no star-only ratings and no developer replies.
- The app must be available in the chosen country store.
- About one request per second, no proxies. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

### FAQ

**Where do I find the app id?** The App Store URL ends in `id` plus a number, for example `.../id389801252`.

**Why fewer reviews than I asked for?** The app may have fewer written reviews in that country, or your filters removed some.

### Disclaimer

This is an **unofficial** tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Apple. It collects only publicly available data from Apple's public customer reviews feed, with no login. You are responsible for using the data in line with Apple's terms and applicable law (for example GDPR). Reviews belong to their authors; use them for research and analysis, not republishing. Apple can change its feed at any time, which may temporarily break the actor.

**AI disclosure:** this actor was built with AI assistance (Claude by Anthropic). Maintained by tinygrid. Issues and feature requests are welcome in the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

App Store apps: numeric id (389801252) or an apps.apple.com URL such as https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252. The id is the number after 'id' in the URL.

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

Two-letter App Store country codes (us, gb, de, fr, lt ...). Reviews are collected per country store.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Newest reviews first. Apple's public feed offers at most 500 reviews per app and country (10 pages of 50).

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

Optional. Skip reviews below this star rating (1-5).

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

Optional. Skip reviews above this star rating (1-5). Use minimum 1 and maximum 2 to collect only complaints.

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

Optional. ISO date like 2026-01-01. Older reviews are skipped.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Public Apple App Store reviews and per-app or per-country error records stored in the default dataset.

# 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": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
    "minRating": 1,
    "maxRating": 5
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("obliging_resilience/app-store-reviews-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 = {
    "apps": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
    "minRating": 1,
    "maxRating": 5,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("obliging_resilience/app-store-reviews-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 '{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5
}' |
apify call obliging_resilience/app-store-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,obliging_resilience/app-store-reviews-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/NCY19KG5Zb0pfxuxT/builds/geXE6ubzg4IQLINUC/openapi.json