# App Store & Google Play Search, App Details & Top Charts (`tali-works/app-store-google-play-search`) Actor

Search the App Store and Google Play by keyword, get Apple top charts, or look up apps by URL/ID. Ratings, installs, price, developer email and website, version, dates, screenshots, rank. No proxies. $2 per 1,000 apps.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tali-works/app-store-google-play-search.md
- **Developed by:** [Trevor Staubach](https://apify.com/tali-works) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

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

## App Store & Google Play Search Scraper: App Details, Top Charts & Developer Contacts

Search **Apple's App Store and Google Play by keyword**, pull **App Store top charts** (free/paid, any country), or **look up apps by URL, ID or package name**, all in **one unified schema**. Each app includes title, developer, **rating, rating count, installs, price, in-app purchases and ads flags**, genre, content rating, version, release and update dates, size, description, icon, screenshots and its **search rank**. Google Play results also include the **developer email, website, address and privacy policy**, which makes them useful for lead generation. **$2 per 1,000 apps.** No login or proxies needed.

### Why this Actor

- **Both stores, one schema, one run.** Search results carry `rank`, so you can track App Store Optimization (ASO) positions over time.
- **Far cheaper:** $2 per 1,000 apps, with no setup fee (some alternatives charge $15+ per 1,000).
- **Developer contacts:** email, website and address from Google Play app pages, for B2B outreach to app publishers.
- **Top charts:** Apple top free and paid apps for any country, with full details.

### Use cases

App market research, ASO keyword ranking tracking, competitor monitoring, lead lists of app developers, investor and trend scouting, building app directories.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `searchTerms` | Keywords to search. |
| `stores` | `appstore`, `googleplay` (default both). |
| `apps` | URLs, Apple IDs or package names for detail lookups. |
| `appleCharts` | `top-free`, `top-paid`. |
| `country` / `language` | Store country (default `us`), Google Play text language (default `en`). |
| `maxResultsPerSearch` | Per search and store, per chart (default 50). |
| `includeGooglePlayDetails` | Full Play details incl. developer email (default on). |
| `minRating` | Skip low-rated apps. |
| `maxTotalApps` | Hard cap for the run. |

```json
{ "searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "meditation"], "appleCharts": ["top-free"], "country": "us", "maxResultsPerSearch": 100 }
```

### Output

```json
{
  "store": "googleplay", "appId": "com.roehl.habitkit", "title": "Habit Tracker - HabitKit", "rank": 4,
  "developer": "Sebastian Röhl", "developerEmail": "sebaroehl@gmail.com", "developerWebsite": "https://habitkit.app",
  "rating": 4.555, "ratingCount": 11989, "installs": "500,000+", "realInstalls": 755730,
  "price": 0.0, "free": true, "currency": "USD", "offersInAppPurchases": true, "containsAds": false,
  "genre": "Productivity", "contentRating": "Everyone", "version": "1.18.1",
  "releasedAt": "Nov 25, 2022", "updatedAt": "2026-10-13T07:39:34+00:00",
  "summary": "Build habits and achieve your goals", "ratingHistogram": [466, 373, 373, 1587, 9178],
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...", "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roehl.habitkit",
  "country": "us", "query": "googleplay:\"habit tracker\""
}
```

App Store rows have the same fields; developer email, installs and ads flags aren't published by Apple, so they're `null`. App Store rows add `sizeBytes`, `minOsVersion`, `languages` and `releaseNotes`.

### Pricing

**$2.00 per 1,000 apps**, plus $0.00005 per run start.

### Related

Need the reviews too? Use **App Store + Google Play Reviews** (https://apify.com/tali-works/app-store-google-play-reviews).

# Actor input Schema

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

Keywords to search in each store, e.g. habit tracker, budget app. Results keep the store's ranking (rank).

## `stores` (type: `array`):

Which stores to search. Default both.

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

App Store / Google Play URLs, Apple numeric IDs or Android package names to fetch full details for.

## `appleCharts` (type: `array`):

Also fetch App Store top charts for the chosen country (up to 200 apps each).

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

Two-letter store country code, e.g. us, gb, de, in.

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

Google Play language code for texts, e.g. en, de, es.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Per search term per store, and per chart. App Store max 200, Google Play max ~250.

## `includeGooglePlayDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each Google Play result's full page: installs, developer email/website/address, rating histogram, dates (same price).

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Skip apps rated below this (not billed).

## `maxTotalApps` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap for the whole run, to control cost.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50,
  "includeGooglePlayDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All results in the default dataset.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "habit tracker"
    ],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tali-works/app-store-google-play-search").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 = {
    "searchTerms": ["habit tracker"],
    "maxResultsPerSearch": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tali-works/app-store-google-play-search").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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "habit tracker"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50
}' |
apify call tali-works/app-store-google-play-search --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/54D99SOhC4wCixCIS/builds/iM3Pw3xnGtvTxQnv5/openapi.json