Scrape Apple App Store, iTunes, Music, and Podcasts data — app details, ratings, and reviews. Pay-per-event pricing: $0.30 per 1000 apps + $0.10 per 1000 reviews. No monthly fee.
Critical: Crawlee's HttpCrawler rejected Apple's iTunes responses because they ship with Content-Type: text/javascript (a JSONP holdover), not application/json. Added additionalMimeTypes allowlist so request handlers actually receive the body. Found via local smoke test against id=880047117.
[0.1] — 2026-05-15
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Initial release. Pay-per-event Apple App Store / iTunes scraper.
Search mode against itunes.apple.com/search with country, mediaType, and term filters.
Lookup mode against itunes.apple.com/lookup for direct ID retrieval.
Start URL support for apps.apple.com, itunes.apple.com, podcasts.apple.com, music.apple.com, and books.apple.com detail URLs.
Reviews retrieval via Apple's RSS-as-JSON customer-reviews feed.
Dual-sortby review pagination — combines sortby=mostrecent and sortby=mosthelpful and de-duplicates by review id to push past Apple's per-sortby ~500-review cap.
Streaming pushData — items are emitted as they are completed; no global accumulator.
Per-item error capture to a sidecar key-value store record; bad input does not abort the run.
PPE events: app-scraped and review-scraped. No flat actor-start fee.
TypeScript strict, Vitest unit tests, Zod input validation.