App Store Review Scraper (Apple iOS)

Collect recent Apple App Store reviews for ASO research, product discovery, competitor monitoring, and customer feedback analysis. Provide App Store URLs, numeric Apple app IDs, or a mixture of both and receive one clean dataset row per review.

The Actor uses Apple's public iTunes Lookup and Customer Reviews RSS JSON endpoints. It needs no API key, paid proxy, browser, or third-party data subscription.

What it does

• Accepts Apple App Store URLs and numeric app IDs.
• Resolves app metadata including name, seller, rating summary, price, genres, and current version.
• Reads up to 10 pages of the most recent reviews per app.
• Exports review title, text, 1–5 rating, author, reviewed app version, and ISO timestamp.
• Retries temporary request failures and isolates errors so one bad app does not stop the run.
• Deduplicates repeated app IDs and review IDs.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
apps	string array	Yes	WhatsApp URL and ID in the prefill	App Store URLs or numeric app IDs.
country	string	No	us	Two-letter App Store storefront country code.
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	No	100	Reviews saved per app, from 1 to 500.

Example input:

{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
    "310633997"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}

Both example values resolve to the same app ID, so the Actor processes WhatsApp once and does not create duplicate reviews.

Output

Each dataset item is one review:

{
  "appId": "310633997",
  "appName": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "country": "us",
  "reviewId": "12345678901",
  "title": "Useful every day",
  "text": "Fast and reliable messaging.",
  "rating": 5,
  "author": "Example user",
  "version": "2.26.10",
  "updatedAt": "2026-01-15T12:30:00.000Z"
}

The app metadata lookup supplies the canonical app name and is logged with seller name, average rating, rating count, price, genres, and current version. The dataset stays review-focused with the stable fields shown above.

Data sources and limits

The Actor only calls official, public Apple endpoints:

• https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=<appId>&country=<country> for app metadata.
• https://itunes.apple.com/<country>/rss/customerreviews/page=<1..10>/id=<appId>/sortby=mostrecent/json for reviews.

Apple exposes at most 10 review pages through this feed. Apps without public reviews in the selected storefront produce no dataset rows. Availability and ordering are controlled by Apple and can vary by country.

Cost

There are no external data-source fees. On pay-per-event Actor pricing, one result event is charged for each review saved to the dataset.