Shopify App Store Scraper — Apps, Reviews, Developers & App Ideas

Extract the Shopify App Store into clean, analysis-ready rows: every app listing with its pricing plans in USD, rating and star histogram, launch date, developer and business address, categories and feature tags, languages, integrations and data access; merchant reviews with a native star filter and the developer reply; developer profiles with all their apps; and a category snapshot with a published opportunityScore to find app ideas worth building. No login, no account, no API key.

What you get

Output type	One row per	Highlights
apps (default)	app of the categories / search terms you choose (or the whole store)	74 columns: plans with price, billing period, trial days and usage charges; rating, review count and histogram; launch date; developer, website, country; categories with feature tags; languages; works-with; data access; similar apps; Built for Shopify
app-details	app link you paste	the same full listing
reviews	merchant review	stars, date, text, store, country, time using the app, developer reply and its date
developers	developer	every app with rating and reviews, total reviews, review-weighted rating, Built for Shopify apps, website, business address, company support e-mail
category-snapshot	category	apps, median rating, share rated below 4.0, apps launched in the last 12 months, median price, free-plan share, review concentration, top apps, weak incumbents, opportunityScore

Error rows (an app that does not exist or is no longer available, a page Shopify could not serve) are delivered with a plain-English reason and are never charged.

Find app ideas: the opportunityScore

Each category-snapshot row scores a category from 0 to 100 with a fixed, published formula (the same input always gives the same number, so runs are comparable):

• Demand (40%) = log10(1 + total reviews of the category) / 5, capped at 1 — reviews are the public usage signal of Shopify apps; 100,000 reviews = full demand.
• Dissatisfaction (25%) = share of rated apps below 4.0 stars. If no app of the category has a rating, it is null, dissatisfactionMeasured is false and the weights are renormalized over the measured components (formula v1.4; on Shopify almost every category has rated apps).
• Staleness (20%) = share of apps not updated for 2+ years. Shopify publishes no update date for apps, so this component is not measurable here: it is null, stalenessMeasured is false and the score is renormalized over the other three weights (formula v1.4: 50% demand, 31.25% dissatisfaction, 18.75% openness), so it still spans 0–100.
• Openness (15%) = 1 / (1 + populationCount / 50), where populationCount is the number of apps Shopify declares for the category (opennessBasis says category, or sample if the count was not available): fewer competitors = more room.
• Since v1.2: apps whose review count is unknown are left out of the demand medians (demandKnownCount says how many were known); an app with 0 reviews is a measured 0.

The snapshot also lists lowRatedPopularApps (rated below 4.0 with 20+ reviews: incumbents merchants complain about) and newestApps. Measured on 17 Oct 2026 across the 122 subcategories: total reviews per subcategory range from 36 to 99,423 (median about 7,400).

Data coverage (measured, not promised)

Measured on 17 Oct 2026 on the whole store read with this actor (28,807 apps; the fill rate of every field is also written in the dataset schema with its n):

• The store has 28,816 apps (sitemap ∪ the 122 subcategory listings); 58% have no review yet and therefore no rating (rating filled 41.7%); 6% carry the Built for Shopify badge.
• 100%: name, icon, review count, star histogram, pricing summary, launch date, categories, developer, business address and country code, privacy policy, screenshots. 99%: description, feature bullets, languages. Pricing plans 82.6% (the rest show a single price line); cheapest paid price 72.7%; data access 76.6%; works-with 62.8%; developer website 54.9%; demo store 32.5%; video 28%; Shopify's AI review summary 3.4% (only apps with 100+ reviews).
• Support e-mail: delivered for 83.3% of apps (company domains); free-mail addresses are withheld.
• Reviews (n = 1,452 real reviews): stars, date, store and country 100%; text 72.9% (many reviews are stars only); developer reply 50.9%.
• Average non-empty fields per row: app 55 of 74, review 19 of 24, developer 19 of 22, category snapshot 31 of 38.

Input examples

Default input {}: 20 apps in 5–15 seconds (measured on 21 Oct 2026, one app from each of the first 20 subcategories; 15 s live, 5–8 s with the shared cache).

{ "categories": ["marketing-and-conversion-marketing-email-marketing"], "sortBy": "lowest-rating", "minReviews": 50, "maxItems": 100 }

{ "outputType": "reviews", "appUrls": ["https://apps.shopify.com/klaviyo-email-marketing"], "reviewsStars": ["1", "2"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 200 }

{ "outputType": "category-snapshot", "categories": ["store-design", "store-management"] }

Filters and how they are applied

• Built for Shopify, Newest order and review stars are sent to Shopify's own filters.
• Rating, number of reviews, free plan and the most reviews / highest / lowest rating orders are checked on the listing cards first (free) and confirmed on the app page — also for reviews and developers read from categories or search: an app that fails a filter gets no review or developer row, and nothing is charged for it.
• Free plan means Shopify shows Free, Free plan available or Free to install (some "Free to install" apps charge per usage: freeToInstall and each plan's usageCharges tell them apart).
• Launch date and maximum starting price are checked on each app page: the run checks up to 100 candidates per requested row (at least 200) and then stops, saying so in the status.
• Apps without reviews have no rating and never pass a rating filter.
• Pasted app links are always processed (filters are not applied to them), and categories or search terms filled in the same run are not read (the run log says so).
• A category or search term is read up to 80 pages (1,920 apps; the largest subcategory has 1,671): Shopify search can match thousands of apps, and the status says when that cap was hit.

Pricing (pay per event)

Event	Price
App listing (app, primary)	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000)
Review	$0.0001
Developer profile	$0.001
Category snapshot	$0.05
Actor start	$0.00001

Why a category snapshot costs $0.05: with the default snapshotDepth: full one row reads every app page of the category (about 300 on average, up to 1,671) plus its listing, so it replaces the ~300 app rows ($0.60) you would otherwise export to compute the same aggregate. listing depth costs the same and reads only the listing cards (faster, no launch dates or exact prices).

Error rows, duplicates within a run, unavailable apps and partial snapshots are never charged. Rows reused from the shared cache (marked with cachedAt) cost the same.

How this compares (measured 17 Oct 2026)

Compared with the output schemas that other Shopify App Store actors declare on Apify:

	This actor	Typical app scrapers
Columns per app row	74	15–48 (often app and review fields mixed in one table)
Pricing plans parsed (USD, period, trial, usage charges)	yes	price label or raw tiers
Rating histogram per star	yes	no
Reviews with native star filter + developer reply	yes	some
Developer profiles with all apps	yes	no
Category snapshot + opportunityScore	yes	no
Errors and duplicates charged	never	varies
Price per app row (free tier)	$0.002	$0.00199–$0.05 (the most used: $0.005)

FAQ

Is the data live? Not always, by default. App pages and developer pages read by any run of this actor in the last 24 hours (maxCacheAgeHours, default 24) are reused from a shared cache, and those rows carry cachedAt (the time the page was read); in our 50 test runs of 17 Oct 2026, 40% of the app rows (560 of 1,417) came from the cache. Set maxCacheAgeHours to 0 to read every page live. Reviews and category listings are always read live.

Why do some apps have no rating? They have no review yet (58% of the store).

Why does a renamed app show a different handle? Shopify redirects old handles; the row keeps the handle you asked for in requestedHandle.

Does it use my Shopify account? No. Only public pages, no login.

This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Shopify. Shopify is a trademark of its owner. It reads public pages only and does not collect personal e-mail addresses.