# Apple App Store Reviews — Fast RSS API (`quartz_apple_dnx/apple-app-store-reviews`) Actor

Extract recent Apple App Store reviews by app and country from Apple's public customer-review feeds with hole-tolerant pagination and global dedupe. No API key, browser, or proxy.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/quartz\_apple\_dnx/apple-app-store-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [Austin DeMoss](https://apify.com/quartz_apple_dnx) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Marketing, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.05 / 1,000 apple app store reviews

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 — Fast RSS API

Extract recent public Apple App Store reviews from Apple's customer-review RSS/JSON feeds by app and storefront country.

This Actor is designed around the real behavior of the public feed rather than assuming perfect pagination: **an empty page does not end a scan**. It will continue through the requested page range because Apple feeds can contain empty holes while later pages still contain reviews.

### What it does

- accepts numeric App Store IDs or `apps.apple.com` URLs;
- supports multiple storefront countries in one run;
- supports Apple's most-recent and most-helpful feed orders;
- scans pages 1–10 without stopping at the first empty page;
- globally deduplicates reviews by app/country/review ID;
- filters by star rating after retrieval;
- returns title, text, rating, author, version, date, vote metadata and review URL when supplied;
- preserves exact page and feed URL provenance;
- needs no Apple developer account, API key, browser, or proxy.

### Example input

```json
{
  "apps": ["389801252", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youtube-watch-listen-stream/id544007664"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "sortBy": "mostRecent",
  "maxPagesPerAppCountry": 10,
  "maxReviews": 1000,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5
}
```

### Output

Each review row includes:

- `reviewId`, `appId`, and storefront `country`;
- star `rating`;
- `title` and full review `text`;
- reviewer `author` and `authorUrl` when supplied;
- `appVersion` and `updatedAt`;
- helpful-vote fields when supplied by Apple;
- direct `reviewUrl` when supplied;
- exact `sourcePage` and `sourceUrl`;
- UTC `scrapedAt`.

### Pricing

Pay per unique review row saved. Duplicate reviews, metadata entries, empty pages, failed page requests, and rows filtered out by rating are not billed as review rows.

### Source limitations

Apple's public customer-review feed is a recent-review window, not a complete historical archive. It is storefront-specific and generally exposes up to roughly 10 pages / 500 recent reviews per app and country. Developer replies are not included in this public feed.

Because empty holes can occur in the feed, this Actor deliberately continues through the configured page range instead of stopping early.

# Actor input Schema

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

One to 25 numeric Apple App Store IDs or apps.apple.com URLs containing an id.

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

One to 50 two-letter App Store country codes, for example us, gb, ca, au, de, jp.

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

Apple review-feed sort mode.

## `maxPagesPerAppCountry` (type: `integer`):

Apple's public feed is generally useful through pages 1–10. Empty pages are not treated as end-of-feed because later pages can still contain reviews.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on unique review rows saved across all apps and countries.

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

Keep reviews with at least this many stars.

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

Keep reviews with at most this many stars.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of Apple review-feed requests sent simultaneously.

## `timeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

Maximum seconds allowed for each feed request.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "sortBy": "mostRecent",
  "maxPagesPerAppCountry": 10,
  "maxReviews": 1000,
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "concurrency": 4,
  "timeoutSecs": 15
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

No description

## `summary` (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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/apple-app-store-reviews").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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/apple-app-store-reviews").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 '{}' |
apify call quartz_apple_dnx/apple-app-store-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/7KfuuZZn5M1ogJrsy/builds/f26S9N6FZAOdhOQkf/openapi.json