🍎 iTunes & Apple Store Search Scraper

🚀 Search Apple's entire catalog in seconds. Query movies, music tracks, artists, albums, ebooks, iPhone / iPad / Mac apps, and audiobooks across 66 country storefronts. Pull artwork, pricing, ratings, descriptions, release dates, and preview URLs. No API key, no rate-limit headaches.

The iTunes & Apple Store Search Scraper wraps Apple's public catalog-search service, the same backend that powers the iTunes Store, Apple Music search, App Store search, Apple Books, and Apple TV+. Each record contains the artwork URL, canonical title, artist or seller, collection / album, IDs, store URL, preview URL, price, currency, primary genre, release date, ratings, description text, and dozens of additional metadata fields depending on the entity type.

The catalog covers every Apple-distributed creative work in 66 country storefronts including the US, UK, Japan, Germany, France, Brazil, India, Australia, and 58 more, with results localizable to 9 languages. Use it to bootstrap a media-discovery feature, monitor App Store competitive intelligence, build a music-rights inventory, or enrich any product catalog with Apple's canonical metadata. Output exports as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🛑 Podcasts use a separate scraper. This Actor intentionally excludes the podcast entity. For podcast metadata use the dedicated iTunes Podcast Search scraper.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
App Store analytics teams, media-catalog builders, music-rights orgs, marketing intel, recommendation engineers, mobile-app marketers, ebook retailers	App Store competitive intel, music / movie / book catalog enrichment, price and rating monitoring, store-front availability checks, creative-rights inventory

📋 What the iTunes & Apple Store Search Scraper does

Search across 8 entity types in a single Actor:

• 🎬 Movie - feature films and shorts from iTunes Movies / Apple TV+
• 🎵 Music Track - individual songs across the iTunes / Apple Music catalog
• 🎤 Music Artist - artist-level metadata and IDs
• 💿 Music Album - full album records with track counts
• 📚 Ebook - Apple Books titles with descriptions and ratings
• 📱 iPhone App (software) - iOS apps with version, size, ratings, screenshots
• 📲 iPad App (iPadSoftware) - iPad-optimized apps
• 💻 Mac App (macSoftware) - macOS apps from the Mac App Store
• 🎧 Audiobook - Apple Books audiobook editions

Filter by search query, entity type, country storefront (66 options), and result language (9 options) for localized titles and descriptions.

Each record includes the artwork URL, title, artist or developer name, store URL, preview URL, price, currency, primary genre, release date, average user rating, user rating count, content advisory, and entity-specific extras like file size, version, language codes, seller name, and release notes.

💡 Why it matters: Apple's iTunes Search service is the only free, no-key, multi-storefront entry point into Apple's catalog. Commercial alternatives charge per query and rarely cover all 8 entity types. Building your own integration means handling per-entity field shapes, storefront pagination, and localization quirks by hand. This Actor skips all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: artist, artistId, artworkUrl, averageUserRating, collectionId, collectionName, country, currency, durationMillis, explicit, fileSizeBytes, kind, languageCodes, longDescription, previewUrl, price, primaryGenreName, rating, releaseDate, releaseNotes, scrapedAt, sellerName, shortDescription, title, trackCount, trackId, url, userRatingCount, version, wrapperType. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the iTunes & Apple Store Search Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Type a search query, pick an entity type, choose your storefront and result language.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

🔗 Recommended Actors

• 🎙️ iTunes Podcast Search Scraper - Podcast metadata and episode lists
• 🛍️ Google Play Store Scraper - Android app reviews and metadata
• 🎵 Spotify Tracks Scraper - Spotify music catalog data
• 🎬 IMDb Scraper - Movie and TV-show metadata
• 📚 Goodreads Scraper - Book reviews and ratings

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more catalog-data scrapers.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. All trademarks mentioned, including iTunes, Apple Music, App Store, Apple Books, and Apple TV+, are the property of Apple Inc. Only publicly available iTunes catalog data is collected.

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