# App Store Top Charts by Country: top free and paid apps ranked (`steadydata/app-store-top-charts`) Actor

The Apple App Store top charts per country, up to 100 apps per chart and 50 countries per run: rank, app, developer, price, rating, rating count, genre, version and release date, straight from Apple's own chart feed. Pay per ranked app.

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

## Pricing

from $0.55 / 1,000 app listeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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# README

## App Store Top Charts by Country: top free and paid apps ranked

The Apple App Store top charts per country, up to 100 apps per chart and 50 countries per run: rank, app, developer, price, rating, rating count, genre, version and release date, straight from Apple's own chart feed. Pay per ranked app.

### Why this scraper

- **Only delivered results are charged.** Inputs that fail come back as clear error
  records at no cost.
- Apple's own chart, not a scraped page: the ranking comes from the feed Apple publishes for its marketing tools, so it is the same list the App Store shows, and it costs two requests per country instead of a browser session. Measured on the US top 50: 50 of 50 apps enriched with bundle id, price, rating count, genre and version.
- Enriched rows: every ranked app carries price, currency, average rating, rating count, primary genre, content rating, current version and its release date from Apple's lookup API, which a bare chart feed does not have. Fifty countries per run, one row per app, in rank order.

### Who this is for

List the storefront codes in `countries` (two letters: us, gb, nl, de, jp; up to 50 per run), pick `chart` (top free or top paid) and set `maxAppsPerCountry` (default 50, ceiling 100, the most Apple publishes). Every row carries the country, chart, rank, app id, bundle id, title, developer, price, rating, rating count, genre, version and store URL.

### Who this is not for

Apple publishes at most 100 apps per chart, only the overall top free and top paid lists, not per-genre charts, and only for the storefront codes it operates; an unknown code comes back as one free `COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND` error row. The chart is Apple's snapshot at the moment of the run, refreshed by Apple several times a day, so two runs an hour apart can differ. `rating` is empty for an app that has no ratings yet in that storefront (1 of 50 in the US top free chart on 16-09-2026).

### Input example

```json
{
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl"
    ],
    "chart": "top-free",
    "maxAppsPerCountry": 50
}
```

### Output example

- `country`
- `chart`
- `rank`
- `appId`
- `bundleId`
- `title`
- `developer`
- `price`
- `currency`
- `isFree`
- `rating`
- `ratingCount`
- `genre`
- `contentRating`
- `releaseDate`
- `currentVersion`
- `versionDate`
- `iconUrl`
- `url`

Error codes: `INVALID_COUNTRY`, `COUNTRY_NOT_FOUND`, `NO_APPS`, `BLOCKED`.

One delivered row looks like this:

```json
{
  "country": "US",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "rank": 1,
  "appId": "6448311069",
  "bundleId": "com.openai.chat",
  "title": "ChatGPT",
  "developer": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "isFree": true,
  "rating": 4.83,
  "ratingCount": 10332633,
  "genre": "Productivity",
  "contentRating": "12+",
  "releaseDate": "2023-05-18",
  "currentVersion": "1.2026.244",
  "versionDate": "2026-09-08",
  "iconUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/1e/d2/2c/1ed22c36-78c3-54c9-7b35-b6837a28c0e3/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-0-0-1-0-P3-85-220.png/512x512bb.jp...",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
  "status": "ok"
}
```

### Related actors from steadydata

- [app-store-app-details](https://apify.com/steadydata/app-store-app-details): the full record of any app in the chart
- [app-store-search](https://apify.com/steadydata/app-store-search): keyword rankings in the App Store
- [google-play-app-details](https://apify.com/steadydata/google-play-app-details): the Google Play side of an app

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `app-listed` event per delivered result. No charge for inputs
that fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

**Free Apify plan:** this actor delivers up to 25 rows per run for accounts on the Apify free
plan, and then stops with a message. That limit is set by us, not by Apify. It exists so the
actor keeps paying for itself for the people who do pay. Any paid Apify plan runs it at full
size, billed per delivered row, with failed rows never charged.

**Reviews:** if this actor saves you time, a short review on this page is the one thing that
helps most. Ratings are what other buyers look at first, and we have no other way to ask.

### FAQ

**Which countries work?** Any App Store storefront, by its two-letter code: us, gb, ca, au, de, fr, nl, es, it, jp, kr, br, mx, in and the rest. A code Apple does not operate costs nothing and comes back as an error row.

**Can I get the top 200?** No. Apple publishes 10, 25, 50 or 100 per chart; `maxAppsPerCountry` cuts within that.

**Do prices come in local currency?** Yes. Price and `currency` are the storefront's own, so the Dutch chart prices in EUR and the Japanese one in JPY.

**Are games included?** Yes, the overall chart mixes apps and games; the `genre` column tells them apart (Games, Productivity, Social Networking and so on).

**How fresh is the chart?** It is read live at run time. Schedule the actor daily to build a ranking history.

**Is personal data collected?**
The rank is Apple's position in the chart at run time; ties do not exist. `releaseDate` is the first release of the app in the store and `versionDate` the release of the current version, both as ISO dates.

**What happens when the source changes?**
Sources change from time to time; that is the nature of this work. The actor is
monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged, because
only delivered results cost anything.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/steadydata/app-store-top-charts/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

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

One per row, up to 50, as two-letter storefront codes: us, gb, nl, de, jp.

## `chart` (type: `string`):

Which chart to read for every country.

## `maxAppsPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Cost ceiling per chart; Apple publishes at most 100.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "nl"
  ],
  "chart": "top-free",
  "maxAppsPerCountry": 50
}
```

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steadydata/app-store-top-charts").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 = { "countries": [
        "us",
        "nl",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steadydata/app-store-top-charts").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "nl"
  ]
}' |
apify call steadydata/app-store-top-charts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/4xGMxTwkR3lRqDGrH/builds/rRyocqCcbg2t1I78F/openapi.json