App Store Top Charts (Official Apple Feeds)

Live App Store, Apple Books, Apple Podcasts and Apple Music top charts for any country storefront, from Apple's official marketing-tools RSS feeds - the same feeds Apple publishes for partners and press. No scraping, no login, no breakage when Apple changes the App Store website.

Why monitor the charts

Chart position is the single best public proxy for app traction. Investors watch for breakout apps before they make news. Marketers benchmark category leaders. Mobile teams track their own rank after every release and every ad campaign. And because Apple serves a separate chart per country, a worldwide launch can be tracked storefront by storefront with one scheduled Actor run per market.

This Actor turns those charts into clean JSON rows: one row per chart entry, with rank, Apple ID, developer, genres, release date and store URL - ready for a spreadsheet, a database, or an agent.

What you get per entry

• rank - position in the chart at fetch time
• id - Apple ID, ready to feed into the App Store Reviews Actor
• name, artist (developer), kind, releaseDate
• genres, url, artwork
• country, mediaType, chart echoed back for multi-market pipelines

Inputs

Field	Required	Description
country	no	Two-letter storefront code (default us): gb, de, fr, jp, au, br, in, ...
mediaType	no	apps (default), books, podcasts or music
chart	no	apps: top-free (default), top-paid, top-grossing; books: top-free/top-paid; podcasts: top; music: most-played
genre	no	Apple genre ID for app charts, e.g. 6014 Games, 6000 Business, 6007 Productivity
limit	no	Entries to return (default 50, max 200)

Examples

Top 50 free iPhone apps in Germany:

{ "country": "de", "mediaType": "apps", "chart": "top-free", "limit": 50 }

Top 100 grossing games in the US:

{ "country": "us", "mediaType": "apps", "chart": "top-grossing", "genre": "6014", "limit": 100 }

Most-played songs in Japan:

{ "country": "jp", "mediaType": "music", "chart": "most-played" }

FAQ

Is this an official Apple source? Yes - Apple's public marketing-tools RSS feeds (with the legacy Apple feed for the grossing-apps chart, which the newer feed set no longer publishes).

How fresh are the charts? Apple updates them continuously; every run reflects the chart as of that minute.

Do I need an Apple account or API key? No.

Which countries are supported? Every Apple storefront - use the two-letter country code.

What does it cost? Pay-per-event: $2 per 1,000 chart entries plus minimal platform compute.

Can I track rank over time? Yes - schedule daily runs and store the dataset rows; each row carries its fetch-time rank.

Pipeline patterns

Daily rank archive. Schedule one run per market and chart you care about. Every row carries its fetch-time rank, so appending daily datasets builds a complete rank-history table - the raw material for momentum charts and breakout alerts.

Breakout detection. Compare today's ranks to a 7-day rolling average; an app jumping 30+ positions in a category chart is usually news, a feature, or an ad campaign. Pipe the deltas to an agent to investigate.

Category deep dives. Pair genre with chart=top-grossing to map who actually monetizes in a niche - Games (6014), Business (6000), Medical (6020) - then feed the Apple IDs into the App Store Reviews Actor for the why behind the numbers.

Launch tracking. A new app's first chart appearance, day by day, country by country: releaseDate in the row tells you exactly which entrants are new.

Field notes

id is the numeric Apple ID and joins directly to the Reviews Actor and to App Store URLs (https://apps.apple.com/app/id<value>). kind distinguishes apps from games in some storefronts. genres lists Apple's own category labels, with the primary genre first. Charts are storefront-specific: the same app can be #1 in Brazil and unranked in the US, so always record country alongside rank.

More FAQ

Why did my chart/mediaType combination return an error? Not every chart exists for every media type. Valid pairs: apps = top-free/top-paid/top-grossing, books = top-free/top-paid, podcasts = top, music = most-played.

Are iPad charts available? Apple's feeds publish the combined iPhone charts; use genre to narrow by category instead.

How often does Apple update the charts? Continuously; ranking movements are visible within the hour.

Do paid-only or free-only splits matter? Yes - top-free and top-paid are separate charts with separate ranks; grossing blends revenue across both.

What happens for an invalid country code? Apple's feed returns an error and the run fails fast with a clear message - fix the code and rerun.

Can I get more than 200 entries? Apple caps each chart feed at 200; that is the full published chart.

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