# App Store Rankings API – Top Charts, Search & App Data (`rowfeed/apple-app-store-scraper`) Actor

App Store top charts (free, paid, grossing, iPad, new) per country and category, app search and app details: rank, developer, price, rating, ratings count, category, version, size, release date. $1 per 1,000 apps.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rowfeed/apple-app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Rowfeed](https://apify.com/rowfeed) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 apps

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 Scraper – Top Charts, Search & App Data

Get App Store top charts for any country and category, App Store search results and full app details: rank, app name, developer, price, rating, number of ratings, category, version, size, release and update dates.
Schedule it daily to track chart positions, competitors and new launches.
Built for app marketers and ASO teams, app developers, investors and market researchers, and AI agents.
The data comes from Apple's public App Store feeds and search API, so there is no login and no scraping of web pages.

### What you get

- **Top charts**: top free, top paid and top grossing (iPhone and iPad) and new apps, overall or per category (Finance, Games, Health & Fitness and 22 more), up to 100 apps each, in chart order.
- **Search**: the apps the App Store returns for any search term, ranked.
- **App details** for any app id or App Store URL.
- **Any country**: run the same charts for many countries in one go.
- Every row has the full app record: developer, price, rating, ratings count, categories, versions and dates, size, age rating, minimum iOS, languages and links. Descriptions and release notes are optional.

Reviews are not included.

### Example output row

A real row from a run of the US top grossing Finance chart:

```json
{
  "source": "chart",
  "chart": "top_grossing",
  "category": "Finance",
  "query": null,
  "country": "us",
  "rank": 1,
  "app_id": "578830929",
  "bundle_id": "com.mobiledatalabs.goiq",
  "name": "MileIQ: Mileage Tracker & Log",
  "developer": "MileIQ Inc.",
  "developer_id": "578830932",
  "price": 0.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.76,
  "ratings_count": 114713,
  "genre": "Finance",
  "genres": ["Finance", "Business"],
  "released_at": "2013-01-15T08:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-09-16T13:00:57Z",
  "version": "5.66.3",
  "size_mb": 116.8,
  "content_rating": "4+",
  "minimum_os": "16.0",
  "languages": ["EN"],
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mileiq-mileage-tracker-log/id578830929",
  "checked_at": "2026-10-15T18:34:37+00:00"
}
```

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `charts` | `top_free`, `top_paid`, `top_grossing`, `top_free_ipad`, `top_paid_ipad`, `top_grossing_ipad`, `new`. Default: `top_free`. |
| `categories` | Optional categories for category charts. Empty = overall chart. |
| `countries` | 2-letter store codes (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `jp` ...), up to 50. Default `us`. |
| `searchTerms` | Optional App Store searches. |
| `appIds` | Optional app ids or App Store URLs. |
| `maxPerChart` | Up to 100 (Apple's chart length). |
| `maxPerSearch` | Up to 200 (Apple sometimes returns fewer). |
| `includeDescription` | Add description and latest release notes. |

### Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

- **$1 per 1,000 apps** ($0.001 per app row).
- $0.001 per run start.

Examples: the US top 100 free apps cost $0.101. Top free, paid and grossing for 10 countries (3,000 apps) cost about $3.00. A daily top-100 chart in one category costs about $3 a month.

You can cap the cost of a run with the maximum charge setting; the Actor stops when the budget is used. Error rows (unknown app, invalid id) are never charged.

### Good to know

- Charts reflect Apple's feeds at run time; `rank` is the position in the chart or search.
- Apple limits how fast its public endpoints can be called, so a run reads about 20 lists or lookups per minute. Big multi-country runs take a few minutes.
- `developer` is the developer name shown on the App Store.

### Related tools

- [Google Search Results API](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-serp-api) – Google results for any query, with your domain's rank.
- [Google Trends Explorer](https://apify.com/rowfeed/google-trends-explorer) – Google Trends interest over time for up to 5 compared keywords.

Not affiliated with Apple.

# Actor input Schema

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Which App Store charts to read (up to 100 apps each, in chart order). Leave empty to skip charts.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Optional: chart per category (Finance, Games, Health & Fitness ...). Empty = the overall chart.

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

App Store countries as 2-letter codes, up to 50.

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

Optional: App Store searches, in Apple's result order (ranked).

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

Optional: specific apps to fetch (up to 1,000).

## `maxPerChart` (type: `integer`):

Apple's charts list up to 100 apps.

## `maxPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Up to 200.

## `includeDescription` (type: `boolean`):

Add the app description and the latest release notes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "charts": [
    "top_free"
  ],
  "categories": [],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "gb",
    "de",
    "jp"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker",
    "budget app"
  ],
  "appIds": [
    "1632713844",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id284882215"
  ],
  "maxPerChart": 100,
  "maxPerSearch": 50,
  "includeDescription": false
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rowfeed/apple-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 = {}

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rowfeed/apple-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/8Y3lnYEtuMdq1A0DN/builds/m3iWXHuMFWbMw8Ttq/openapi.json