# App Store Scraper - iOS App Details & Reviews (`randy-tools/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Apple App Store apps and reviews by id, URL or search in any country: rating, 1-5 star histogram, chart position, price, version and updates, plus reviews with title, text, stars, date and developer replies. Thousands of reviews per app, HTTP-only, pay per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/randy-tools/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [AICORP Tools](https://apify.com/randy-tools) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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?

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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.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Store Scraper — iOS App Details & Reviews

Extract **app details and reviews from the Apple App Store**, in any country. Pass app ids or URLs, or find apps by keyword. For each app you get the rating, **1–5 star histogram**, top-chart position, price, version, update date, size, developer and more. You also get its **reviews**: title, full text, stars, date and the developer's response.

It uses the App Store's current web data feed. The old iTunes RSS review feed caps out at 500 reviews and now often returns nothing. This Actor pages **thousands of reviews per app** and still works over plain HTTP (no browser). Requests are paced and retried automatically, so scheduled runs keep succeeding.

### What you can do with it

- **Review monitoring:** collect new critical reviews every day and route them to support or product
- **Competitor research:** compare ratings, histograms, chart positions, pricing and update cadence
- **Sentiment and NLP datasets:** thousands of reviews per app and storefront
- **App store optimization (ASO):** track rating shifts and what users say after each release
- **Market mapping:** find the top apps for any keyword in any country

### Features

- 📦 **Apps by id or URL**, e.g. `324684580` or `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580`
- 🔎 **Search:** top apps for any keyword (up to 200 per term)
- ⭐ **App details:** score, ratings, 1–5 star histogram, score for the current version, top-chart position, price, version, release notes, release and update dates, content rating, minimum iOS, size, languages, developer, icon and screenshots
- 💬 **Reviews:** title, text, stars, date, edited flag, developer response and response date
- 🧹 **Review sort and filters:** most recent, most helpful, most favorable or most critical; filter by stars and by date (`reviewsSince`)
- 💸 **Cheap daily monitoring:** with *Most recent* plus `reviewsSince`, a run stops as soon as it reaches older reviews
- 🌍 **Any storefront:** us, gb, de, jp, br and 170+ more
- 🕶️ **Anonymize option** that leaves out reviewer nicknames

### Input example

```json
{
  "appIds": ["324684580", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/duolingo-language-lessons/id570060128"],
  "searchTerms": ["budget planner"],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 5,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
  "reviewSort": "recent",
  "reviewsSince": "2026-09-01",
  "country": "us"
}
```

### Output

The dataset holds two record types, `app` and `review`. The Console shows each in its own view. (The review below is shown anonymized; by default reviews also include `userName`.)

```json
{
  "type": "app",
  "appId": "324684580",
  "bundleId": "com.spotify.client",
  "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "developer": "Spotify",
  "genre": "Music",
  "score": 4.773,
  "ratings": 42295877,
  "histogram": {
    "1star": 921455,
    "2star": 364256,
    "3star": 936448,
    "4star": 2965122,
    "5star": 37122824
  },
  "chartPositions": [
    {
      "store": "appStore",
      "chart": "top-free",
      "genre": "Music",
      "position": 1
    }
  ],
  "free": true,
  "price": 0.0,
  "version": "9.1.86",
  "updated": "2026-09-23T17:49:27+00:00",
  "contentRating": "12+",
  "minimumOsVersion": "16.1",
  "sizeBytes": 311322624,
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580?uo=4"
}
```

```json
{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "14500725492",
  "appId": "324684580",
  "score": 4,
  "title": "No proper shuffles/Grayed out music",
  "text": "I literally have little to no complaints about the quality of the app i love the formatting but one of the two things i have to say is that my playlist doesn’t get shuffled in full like ill notice it replays the shuffle when there are still unplayed songs in the playlist and so I’ll have to re-Shuff...",
  "date": "2026-09-02T06:48:36+00:00",
  "isEdited": false,
  "replyText": "Hi! We appreciate your feedback. Although we'd love to have all of the world's music on Spotify, our catalog depends on permissions from rights holders, and can differ between countries. To learn more...",
  "replyDate": "2026-09-04T19:07:55+00:00",
  "country": "us"
}
```

Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull them via the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or MCP.

### Pricing

Pay only for what you get: a small fee per run start, a fee **per app** and a much smaller fee **per review**. Proxy costs are included.

### FAQ

**How many reviews can I get?** Reviews are per storefront. Popular apps have tens of thousands in the US store. Run one country at a time; the `country` field sets it.

**Why filter stars after download?** Apple offers no star filter. For negative reviews, the *Most critical* order returns 1-star reviews first, so combining it with a 1–2 star filter is fast.

**Is this legal?** The Actor collects only publicly visible store listings and reviews, without logins. Reviews include the reviewer's public nickname unless you enable `anonymizeReviewers`. You are responsible for handling the data in line with applicable laws (such as GDPR) and Apple's terms.

**Something broke?** Open an issue on the Issues tab. We monitor the Actor daily and usually respond within 24 hours.

# Actor input Schema

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Numeric App Store ids such as "324684580", or apps.apple.com URLs.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Find apps by keyword, e.g. "vpn", "budget planner". Top results are scraped.

## `maxAppsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Up to 200.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Output one record per app with rating, 1-5 star histogram, chart position, price, version, developer and more.

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

0 = no reviews. Apple serves thousands of reviews per app and country.

## `reviewSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which Google returns reviews.

## `reviewStars` (type: `array`):

Leave empty for all. Apple has no star filter, so reviews are filtered after download; combine 1-2 stars with 'Most critical' order for fast results.

## `reviewsSince` (type: `string`):

YYYY-MM-DD. With 'Most recent' the run stops as soon as it reaches older reviews, which keeps daily monitoring cheap.

## `anonymizeReviewers` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out reviewer nicknames.

## `country` (type: `string`):

App Store storefront, e.g. us, gb, de, jp, br. Reviews and prices are per country.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy exits from the selected country. Datacenter proxy (the default) is fast and included in the price.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIds": [
    "324684580"
  ],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 10,
  "includeAppDetails": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "reviewSort": "recent",
  "anonymizeReviewers": false,
  "country": "us",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "appIds": [
        "324684580"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("randy-tools/app-store-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 = {
    "appIds": ["324684580"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("randy-tools/app-store-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 '{
  "appIds": [
    "324684580"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call randy-tools/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,randy-tools/app-store-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/ksSbN1kfPfzP9HPpx/builds/q28QUIaA0tdNnYzcs/openapi.json