# App Store Reviews by App and Country with Ratings (`usta/app-store-reviews`) Actor

For product managers and app-store-optimisation analysts: pull Apple App Store customer reviews by app and country, with star rating, title, text, version, date, and the public reviewer display name, as one row per review.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/usta/app-store-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [US Tech Automations](https://apify.com/usta) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 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?

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 Reviews by App and Country with Ratings

This tool pulls **app store reviews**, **apple app reviews**, and **ios reviews** by app and country, with star ratings, from Apple's public customer-reviews feed.

Paste an Apple app id or an App Store URL. Each review becomes one row: app id, app name, country, review id, rating, title, text, app version, date, and the reviewer display name exactly as Apple published it.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| **App ids or App Store URLs** | Numeric ids such as `389801252`, or public pages such as `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252`. HTML pages are not read; only the id is used. |
| **Country codes** | Storefronts as two-letter codes. Default `us`. `all` uses the 173-storefront list this tool ships. |
| **Pages per country** | Apple's feed serves up to 10 pages of about 50 reviews, newest first. Default 1. |
| **Minimum / maximum star rating** | Optional 1–5 filters. Reviews outside the range are dropped, not invented. |
| **Maximum rows** | Hard ceiling on rows returned, and therefore on the cost of the run. Default 50, maximum 10,000. |
| **Proxy configuration** | Optional Apify proxy. Off by default, including on a local run. |

### Pricing

**Pay per result. $0.002 per row. No start fee.**

Every dataset row bills from row one, including an error row for an app or country that has no reviews. A run that returns no rows costs nothing. **Maximum rows** is the spend cap.

### Output (one row per review)

One example row from a real local run on 2026-09-20 against Instagram (`389801252`) in the US storefront:

```json
{
  "error": false,
  "app_id": "389801252",
  "app_name": "Instagram",
  "country": "us",
  "review_id": "14569868998",
  "rating": 4,
  "title": "Need a unfollower tool",
  "text": "This app is too advanced to not have a way to track who unfollows you at least even if you follow them back",
  "app_version": "447.0.0",
  "date": "2026-09-19T21:30:55Z",
  "date_raw": "2026-09-19T14:30:55-07:00",
  "reviewer_display_name": "l.amont",
  "source_url": "https://itunes.apple.com/rss/customerreviews/id=389801252/sortBy=mostRecent/page=1/json?cc=us"
}
```

| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| `app_id` | Numeric Apple app id |
| `app_name` | Public name from Apple's lookup JSON, or `null` if lookup returned none |
| `country` | Storefront code used for that row |
| `review_id` | Review id as Apple published it |
| `rating` | Star rating 1–5 |
| `title` / `text` | Review title and body as published |
| `app_version` | Version string the reviewer was on |
| `date` | Timestamp in UTC when it could be parsed |
| `date_raw` | The `updated` value exactly as Apple published it |
| `reviewer_display_name` | Public display name on the review. No email, phone, address, or Apple reviewer URL. |
| `error` | `true` only when that app/country produced no reviews or the request failed |
| `source_url` | The feed URL this row was read from |
| `fetched_at` | When this run read the feed, in UTC |

### What this does not do

- It does not log in, use cookies, or call App Store Connect.
- It does not read `apps.apple.com` HTML.
- It does not fetch Apple's country-prefixed RSS path `/{cc}/rss/...`, because `itunes.apple.com/robots.txt` lists `Disallow: /*/rss/*`. It reads the same public feed at `/rss/customerreviews/...?cc={cc}`.
- It does not return more than 10 pages (about 500 reviews) per country. That is Apple's public-feed ceiling, not a guess.
- It does not invent missing fields. Unreadable values are `null`.
- It does not output emails, phone numbers, home addresses, or Apple reviewer-account URLs. Email- and phone-shaped strings inside review text are replaced with `[redacted]`.
- It does not grant a licence to republish Apple content. Apple's own terms forbid scraping the Services. A 200 from the public feed is not permission.

### Limits

- `maxItems` is 1–10,000 (default 50). The run stops there even if more reviews exist.
- `maxPagesPerCountry` is 1–10. Apple does not serve an 11th page on this feed.
- Lookup is documented at about 20 calls per minute. This tool sleeps one second between HTTPS requests.
- A missing app becomes one error row for that app and country; other apps in the same run still run.

### Refunds and support

Refunds: if a run returns zero rows for a valid input, email operations@ustechautomations.com within 7 days and we refund that run. Support: same address, replies within 2 business days.

# Actor input Schema

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

One or more numeric Apple app ids, or public App Store URLs such as https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252. HTML app pages are not read; only the numeric id is used.

## `countries` (type: `string`):

App Store storefronts as two-letter codes. Default us. Use all for the full storefront list this tool ships. One code, a comma-separated string, or a list all work.

## `maxPagesPerCountry` (type: `integer`):

Apple's public feed serves up to 10 pages of about 50 reviews each, newest first. This run will not request more than 10.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Keep reviews at this star rating or higher (1-5). Leave empty for no floor.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Optional. Keep reviews at this star rating or lower (1-5). Leave empty for no ceiling.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard ceiling on rows returned, and therefore on the cost of the run. Every row bills at the listed price from row one; there is no start fee. A missing app produces one error row.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional Apify proxy. Leave off for a local run. Lookups and review pages are ordinary HTTPS GET requests.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "countries": "us",
  "maxPagesPerCountry": 1,
  "maxItems": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

No description

## `csv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `report` (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": [
        "389801252"
    ],
    "countries": "us",
    "maxPagesPerCountry": 1,
    "maxItems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("usta/app-store-reviews").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": ["389801252"],
    "countries": "us",
    "maxPagesPerCountry": 1,
    "maxItems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("usta/app-store-reviews").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": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "countries": "us",
  "maxPagesPerCountry": 1,
  "maxItems": 50
}' |
apify call usta/app-store-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/0A2McZTeitpCcygp6/builds/VzY2g16q1tVj9n5yM/openapi.json