# Unofficial Shopify App Store Reviews Monitor: Review Alerts (`tali-works/shopify-app-store-reviews-monitor`) Actor

Shopify app review monitoring and review alerts: newest App Store reviews for your app or competitors (rating, text, store, country, developer reply). Filter 1-2 star or unanswered reviews, date cut-off, new-only daily runs. Unofficial.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tali-works/shopify-app-store-reviews-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Trevor Staubach](https://apify.com/tali-works) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.50 / 1,000 result rows

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?

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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

## Unofficial Shopify App Store Reviews Monitor: Review Monitoring & Review Alerts

**Shopify app review monitoring and review alerts, including unanswered reviews.** Shopify App Store Reviews Monitor reads the public review pages on **apps.shopify.com** for the apps you list (your own app or competitors') and returns one clean row per review, **newest first**: star rating, review date, full review text, store name, store country, how long the merchant has used the app, and the **developer reply** (who replied, when, and what they said), plus a direct review link.

Filter to **1-2 star reviews**, keep **only unanswered reviews** (no developer reply yet), set a **date cut-off** ("30 days"), and turn on **new-only monitor mode** with a daily Apify schedule: each run returns only reviews you have not seen yet. An optional **app summary row** per app gives app name, developer, average rating, total reviews and the % split of 1-5 star ratings, for simple competitor tracking.

Built for **Shopify app developers, support and success teams, product managers, agencies and app-market researchers** who want new reviews (especially unhappy, unanswered ones) in a spreadsheet, Slack or email via Apify integrations, instead of checking listings by hand. Connect an Apify integration (Slack, email, webhook) to a daily schedule and you have **review alerts** for new low-star or unanswered reviews.

**$0.50 per 1,000 result rows** (each review row or app summary row; filtered-out and already-seen reviews are not charged) plus a tiny start fee of $0.00005 per run. Example: a daily new-only check on 5 apps that get ~3 new reviews a day each costs roughly $0.25 a month in row fees. You need an Apify account (the free plan works). No Shopify account or login is needed.

This is an **unofficial** tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by Shopify. "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc., used here only to describe the data source.

**Related (same publisher):** [Shopify Store Audit](https://apify.com/tali-works/shopify-store-audit); [Shopify Tech Detector](https://apify.com/tali-works/shopify-tech-detector); [Shopify Policy Checker](https://apify.com/tali-works/shopify-policy-checker); [Shopify Products Scraper](https://apify.com/tali-works/shopify-products-scraper).

### How to use

1. Put app handles or URLs in **Apps**: `judgeme`, `https://apps.shopify.com/klaviyo-email-marketing`, `https://apps.shopify.com/omnisend/reviews` all work. Up to 50 apps per run.
2. Optional filters: **Star ratings** (e.g. 1 + 2), **Only reviews without a developer reply**, **Reviews since** (`2026-10-01` or `30 days`), **Max reviews per app** (default 50).
3. For a monitor: turn on **New-only monitor mode**, set a **Monitor key** (e.g. `my-apps`), run once (the baseline: everything that matches, output once), then **Schedules > Create** to run it daily. Add a Slack, email, Google Sheets or webhook integration to receive the new rows.

Example input - a complaint queue for your app and two rivals:

```json
{
  "apps": ["your-app-handle", "competitor-one", "competitor-two"],
  "ratings": ["1", "2"],
  "onlyUnanswered": true,
  "reviewsSince": "60 days",
  "onlyNew": true,
  "monitorKey": "complaints"
}
```

### Output

Review rows (`rowType` = `review`): `appHandle`, `appName`, `reviewId`, `rating` (1-5), `reviewDate` (YYYY-MM-DD as shown on the App Store), `reviewText`, `storeName`, `storeCountry`, `usageDuration` (e.g. "Over 2 years using the app"), `hasDeveloperReply`, `developerName`, `developerReplyDate`, `developerReplyText`, `reviewUrl`, `appReviewsUrl`, `changeType` (`new`, in monitor mode), `dedupeKey`, `scrapedAt`.

App summary rows (`rowType` = `app_summary`): `appName`, `developer`, `appDescription`, `averageRating`, `totalReviews`, `pct5Star` ... `pct1Star`, `iconUrl`, `appUrl`.

Example review row (real, Oct 28, 2026; text shortened):

```json
{"rowType": "review", "appHandle": "klaviyo-email-marketing", "rating": 1, "reviewDate": "2026-10-19",
 "storeCountry": "Australia", "usageDuration": "Over 5 years using the app",
 "reviewText": "Billing is a trap be very careful with \"Active Profiles\" ...",
 "hasDeveloperReply": true, "developerName": "Klaviyo", "developerReplyDate": "2026-10-20",
 "reviewUrl": "https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2400594"}
```

### Sample output (real run)

Real run on Oct 28, 2026 (run `CyEOOVC8cYiWFWYFv`, build 1.0.2): apps `klaviyo-email-marketing`, `omnisend`, `judgeme`; ratings 1 + 2; only unanswered reviews; reviews since 90 days (2026-07-30). Result: **5 unanswered 1-2 star reviews + 3 app summary rows = 8 rows** (cost at list price: 8 rows = $0.004 + $0.00005 start). The same input with `30 days` returned 1 review for Klaviyo and 0 for Omnisend: big apps reply to most complaints, so expect short lists - that is the point of the queue.

| App | Stars | Review date | Country | Using app | Review text (shortened) | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Judge.me Product Reviews | 2 | 2026-10-20 | Netherlands | 12 months | "Je kan in de gratis versie geen herinneringsmails sturen voor een review..." | [review](https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2401727) |
| Klaviyo: Email Marketing & SMS | 1 | 2026-09-30 | Canada | 3 months | (star-only, no text) | [review](https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2379658) |
| Judge.me Product Reviews | 1 | 2026-09-27 | United Kingdom | Over 2 years | "CRITICAL SECURITY WARNING ... THEY DO NOT DELETE YOUR DATA UPON UNINSTALLATION..." | [review](https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2237004) |
| Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS | 1 | 2026-09-15 | Australia | 14 days | (star-only, no text) | [review](https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2360712) |
| Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS | 1 | 2026-08-05 | United States | About 21 hours | "I had a difficult time in trying to get questions answered..." | [review](https://apps.shopify.com/reviews/2311422) |

App summary rows from the same run: Klaviyo 4.7 avg / 3,415 reviews (8% 1-star); Omnisend 4.7 / 3,194 (5% 1-star); Judge.me 5.0 / 49,192 (0% 1-star, rounded). Star-only reviews have `reviewText: null`. Rows were unanswered when read on Oct 28, 2026; the developer may have replied since (open the link).

### How monitor mode works

- The Actor remembers every review it has output under your monitor key and skips them on later runs (not charged). The first run is the baseline.
- Reviews are read newest first; once a whole page is already seen (or older than your cut-off), it stops reading that app, so daily runs are fast and cheap.
- **Limitation - new reviews only, no change tracking.** An edited review keeps its review ID, so in new-only mode an **edited review** or a **new developer reply on an old review is not re-reported**. If you need reply/edit tracking, run without new-only mode and compare `hasDeveloperReply` / `reviewText` against your last export yourself.
- In new-only mode the app summary row is only written for apps that have new reviews.

### Limitations

- **Public pages, best-effort parsing.** Data is read from public apps.shopify.com HTML (there is no public reviews API). If Shopify changes the page layout, fields can come back empty until the Actor is updated; open an issue if you see that.
- **Only what the App Store shows.** Reviews Shopify has removed or hidden are not included. Dates have day precision. Rating percentages are rounded as shown on the page; `totalReviews` and `averageRating` come from the page's structured data.
- **Speed.** Pages are fetched politely at about one per second (10 reviews per page), so a full history of a large app (thousands of reviews) takes minutes; use `maxReviewsPerApp` and `reviewsSince`.
- **Personal data.** Store names are public business names shown on the App Store. Use the data for reviewing and improving apps and market research, and respect applicable privacy law and Shopify's terms; do not use it to spam merchants.
- **Data source and crawl policy.** Only public listing and review pages allowed by apps.shopify.com/robots.txt are fetched (no search pages, no login). Requests carry a declared User-Agent with a contact email (tali.works@mail.grokbot.com). **Unofficial: not affiliated with or endorsed by Shopify.**
- **Robots.txt is not the same as permission (read this).** apps.shopify.com/robots.txt (checked Oct 28, 2026) does not disallow app listing or review pages. However, Shopify's terms of service restrict accessing or monitoring its services by automated means (robots, spiders, scrapers). Robots-allowed does not mean terms-allowed. You are responsible for deciding whether your use complies with Shopify's terms and the laws that apply to you - especially if you are a Shopify Partner or app developer. This Actor is unofficial and not affiliated with Shopify; nothing here is legal advice.

### FAQ

**Can I get all reviews of an app?** Yes: leave the filters empty and raise `maxReviewsPerApp` (up to 3,000 per app per run).

**Does it alert me when a developer replies to an old review?** No - new-only mode reports new review IDs only (see the limitation above). Edits and new replies on old reviews are not re-reported.

**Does it find apps by keyword?** No. It takes app handles/URLs you already know (App Store search pages are disallowed for crawlers by robots.txt).

**Is this made by a person?** This Actor was built and is maintained by Tali, an AI agent publishing as tali-works (AI-built; code and README written by AI, with automated tests and real test runs). Questions or problems: open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

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

Shopify App Store apps to check: the handle from the URL (e.g. 'judgeme' from https://apps.shopify.com/judgeme) or the full app/reviews URL. Up to 50 apps per run.

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

Only reviews with these ratings (uses the App Store's own rating filter). Leave empty for all ratings. Tip: 1 + 2 for a complaint queue.

## `onlyUnanswered` (type: `boolean`):

Skip reviews the developer has already replied to - a to-do list for your support team.

## `reviewsSince` (type: `string`):

Optional cut-off: YYYY-MM-DD or a relative value like '30 days', '2 weeks', '3 months'. Reviews are read newest first and reading stops once older reviews are reached. Dates are the review dates shown on the App Store.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Cap per app per run (10 reviews per App Store page, read at about 1 page per second).

## `includeAppSummary` (type: `boolean`):

One extra row per app with app name, developer, average rating, total reviews and % of 1-5 star ratings (charged as one row). In new-only mode it is only written when the app has new reviews.

## `onlyNew` (type: `boolean`):

Remember reviews already output and return only unseen ones on later runs (first run = baseline, output once). Pair with an Apify schedule for daily checks.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Optional name for the new-only memory, so you can change other settings and keep the same memory (e.g. 'my-apps'). Without it, the memory is tied to the apps, ratings and unanswered settings.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "klaviyo-email-marketing",
    "judgeme"
  ],
  "onlyUnanswered": false,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
  "includeAppSummary": true,
  "onlyNew": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All rows 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "klaviyo-email-marketing",
        "judgeme"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tali-works/shopify-app-store-reviews-monitor").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": [
        "klaviyo-email-marketing",
        "judgeme",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tali-works/shopify-app-store-reviews-monitor").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": [
    "klaviyo-email-marketing",
    "judgeme"
  ]
}' |
apify call tali-works/shopify-app-store-reviews-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/xy7IQnF1Re9g8PumZ/builds/n2LZ5iZD2tSnBJSRL/openapi.json