# Apple App Store App Details Scraper (`steadydata/app-store-app-details`) Actor

Full App Store listing per app id, URL or bundle id, up to 500 apps per run, any storefront: rating and count, price, genre, age rating, version, dates, size, minimum iOS, languages, description, release notes, artwork. From Apple's official lookup API. Pay per app.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/steadydata/app-store-app-details.md
- **Developed by:** [Steadydata Team](https://apify.com/steadydata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 app fetcheds

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".

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Apple App Store App Details Scraper (bulk, per country)

The full App Store listing for **up to 500 apps per run**, by app id, App Store URL or
bundle id, in any storefront: title, developer, rating with rating count (overall and for
the current version), price and currency, genre, age rating and advisories, version,
release and update dates, size, minimum iOS version, languages, device support,
description, release notes, icon and screenshots. **You only pay for apps that are
actually delivered.**

### Why this scraper

- **Apple's own data.** The actor reads Apple's official lookup API, the same source the
  App Store itself exposes, so fields are exact and stable: no HTML to parse, nothing to
  break when the page design changes.
- **Per storefront.** Price text, currency, availability and rating count differ per
  country; set `country` and you get that storefront's view. In testing on 13-09-2026
  WhatsApp showed 18.6 million ratings in the US storefront and 927 thousand in the Dutch one.
- **Three ways to name an app.** Numeric id, full URL or bundle id; mix them in one list.
- **34 clean fields, flat.** One row per app, ready for a spreadsheet, a database or an
  LLM prompt. Dates as ISO timestamps.
- **Only delivered apps are charged.** An app that does not exist in the chosen
  storefront comes back as a clear error record at no cost. No start fee.

Pairs with the Google Play App Details Scraper from the same publisher: the same kind of
record for both stores, so cross-store comparisons line up.

### Who this is for

App marketers and ASO teams tracking competitors across storefronts. Analysts sizing a
genre by ratings. Investors and researchers building app datasets. Anyone who needs
listing data for a list of apps without visiting each page.

### Who this is not for

This actor works from **app ids, URLs or bundle ids you already have**. It does not
search the App Store by keyword and does not list top charts. Reviews are not included:
they carry reviewer names, which this publisher does not collect. Apple does not publish
install counts for iOS apps, so there is no installs field; the rating count is the
closest public proxy.

### Input example

```json
{
    "apps": ["310633997", "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252", "com.burbn.instagram"],
    "country": "us",
    "language": ""
}
```

`language` takes Apple's codes such as `en_us`, `nl_nl`, `de_de`; empty means the
storefront default.

### Output example

```json
{
    "appId": 310633997,
    "bundleId": "net.whatsapp.WhatsApp",
    "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997?uo=4",
    "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "developer": "WhatsApp Inc.",
    "developerId": 310634000,
    "developerUrl": "https://www.whatsapp.com/",
    "description": "WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app ...",
    "releaseNotes": "Bug fixes and improvements.",
    "score": 4.68,
    "ratings": 18582263,
    "scoreCurrentVersion": 4.68,
    "ratingsCurrentVersion": 18582263,
    "price": 0,
    "priceText": "Free",
    "currency": "USD",
    "isFree": true,
    "genre": "Social Networking",
    "genreId": 6005,
    "genres": ["Social Networking", "Utilities"],
    "contentRating": "12+",
    "advisories": ["Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information"],
    "version": "26.35.74",
    "minimumOsVersion": "15.1",
    "fileSizeBytes": 439248896,
    "released": "2009-05-03T02:58:43Z",
    "updated": "2026-09-10T03:15:42Z",
    "languages": ["EN", "NL", "DE"],
    "supportedDevicesCount": 132,
    "isGameCenterEnabled": false,
    "iconUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../512x512bb.jpg",
    "screenshotUrls": ["https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/.../392x696bb.png"],
    "ipadScreenshotUrls": [],
    "country": "US",
    "status": "ok"
}
```

An app that cannot be found produces an error record instead, and is **not** charged:

```json
{
    "input": "999999999999",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "NOT_FOUND",
    "error": "No app 999999999999 in the US App Store"
}
```

Error codes: `INVALID_APP_ID`, `NOT_FOUND`, `BLOCKED`. `INPUT_TRUNCATED` appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

### Related actors from steadydata

- [google-play-app-details](https://apify.com/steadydata/google-play-app-details): the same app on Google Play
- app-store-search (publishing soon): keyword rankings in the App Store

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `ios-app-fetched` event per delivered app. No charge for apps that fail,
no start fee, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

### FAQ

**Why no install numbers?**
Apple does not publish them for iOS apps. `ratings` is the best public size signal, and
`ratingsCurrentVersion` tells you how the latest release is being received.

**How fast does a large app list run?**
Apple documents a rate limit of roughly 20 calls per minute for its lookup API, and this actor respects it: one app every three seconds. A 500-app run therefore takes about 25 minutes, on purpose; going faster would get the run blocked.

**Is the rating count per country?**
Yes, storefront by storefront, exactly as Apple shows it.

**Can I get reviews?**
Not with this actor, and not from this publisher: reviews carry reviewer names.

**Can I search by keyword or scrape the top charts?**
No. This actor takes the apps you name.

**Is personal data collected?**
No. The developer field is the company or publisher name Apple shows; no contact data.

**What happens when Apple changes something?**
The lookup API has been stable for years and is versioned by Apple. The actor is
monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because only
delivered apps cost anything.

# Actor input Schema

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

App Store URLs, numeric app ids (310633997) or bundle ids (net.whatsapp.WhatsApp), one per row, up to 500. An app that does not exist in the storefront comes back as a free error record.

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

Two-letter storefront (us, gb, nl, de ...): price, currency, rating count and availability follow it.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Listing language as Apple codes it, e.g. en\_us, nl\_nl, de\_de. Leave empty for the storefront default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "310633997",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": ""
}
```

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "310633997",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steadydata/app-store-app-details").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 = { "apps": [
        "310633997",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steadydata/app-store-app-details").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "310633997",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252"
  ]
}' |
apify call steadydata/app-store-app-details --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/HcSxK4AHd2AskD0Z1/builds/49hkckcga0bTVvSJI/openapi.json