# App Store Version Checker (`ryua_marines/app-store-version`) Actor

Looks up the live App Store listing for each bundle ID and returns the current version, its release date and release notes. Use it to tell users an update is available, or to watch competitors' release cadence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ryua\_marines/app-store-version.md
- **Developed by:** [Ryusuke Asai](https://apify.com/ryua_marines) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.20 / 1,000 version lookup results

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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Store Version Checker

Give it a list of bundle IDs. Get back the version that is live on the App Store right now,
when it shipped, and what changed.

There is no official feed for this. The usual answers are to scrape the store page or to
maintain your own version endpoint, and both break. This Actor asks Apple's public lookup
service and hands you the answer as rows.

### What you get back

One row per bundle ID, in the order you sent them.

```json
{
  "bundleId": "com.apple.Pages",
  "appName": "Pages",
  "version": "15.3",
  "releasedAt": "2026-06-30T17:02:13Z",
  "releaseNotes": "For Apple Creator Studio Subscribers: ...",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pages/id361309726"
}
```

An ID that has no listing in that country comes back with an `error` and the run continues,
so the output always lines up with the input.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | |
|---|---|---|---|
| `bundleIds` | array | — | required. e.g. `com.apple.Pages` |
| `country` | string | `us` | two-letter App Store country code |
| `maxItems` | integer | `100` | upper limit on lookups per run |

### What people use it for

- **Tell your own users an update is waiting.** Compare the live version against the one
  running on the device, without shipping a server just for that.
- **Watch how often competitors ship.** Release dates and notes over time say a lot about
  a team's pace and priorities.
- **Catch a release that went out without you.** Useful when the store listing is managed
  by someone else.

### What it does not do

- It does not scrape the App Store website. It uses Apple's public lookup service,
  so it does not break when the page layout changes — and it cannot see anything
  that service does not publish.
- It does not search by app name. You need the bundle ID.
- It does not cover apps that are unlisted in the country you ask for. Ask for the
  right `country` and you will get them.
- It does not watch on a schedule by itself. Point Apify's scheduler at it for that.

### Notes

Requests are paced and retried once on rate limits, so a long list finishes instead of
getting cut off part way. A single lookup takes well under a second.

# Actor input Schema

## `bundleIds` (type: `array`):

App bundle identifiers, for example com.apple.Pages

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

Two-letter App Store country code

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit on how many bundle IDs are looked up

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "bundleIds": [
    "com.apple.Pages",
    "com.apple.Numbers"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 100
}
```

# 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 = {
    "bundleIds": [
        "com.apple.Pages",
        "com.apple.Numbers"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ryua_marines/app-store-version").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 = {
    "bundleIds": [
        "com.apple.Pages",
        "com.apple.Numbers",
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "maxItems": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ryua_marines/app-store-version").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 '{
  "bundleIds": [
    "com.apple.Pages",
    "com.apple.Numbers"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItems": 100
}' |
apify call ryua_marines/app-store-version --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/zHi6PYhl6z6cD3YuP/builds/WZSppPhibfI6kvUv8/openapi.json