Atlassian Marketplace Monitor — Track App Releases, Pricing Models & Ratings

The Atlassian Marketplace is a 5,000+ app ecosystem where vendors ship paid releases every week. This Actor watches it between runs and reports what changed: new apps in your niche, version releases, payment-model switches (free → paid is a signal you want the same day), rating and install movement — as structured change events with field-level before/after diffs.

Built on the official Marketplace REST API. No scraping fragility, no login, runs in seconds.

What it does

• Watch a niche — search terms (time tracking, test management) or whole products (jira, confluence). Every run diffs the app set against the previous run: new_addon, removed_addon, addon_changed.
• Watch specific apps — track competitors by addon key: latest version, payment model, deployment targets (Cloud / Data Center), rating, review count, install base, vendor and category changes.
• Noise-controlled — install and review counters are banded to meaningful magnitudes; ratings rounded — you only see events worth acting on.

Who uses this

• Marketplace vendors — the Atlassian app economy is competitive and paid; know the day a rival ships, changes pricing model, or starts gaining installs.
• Atlassian admins & platform teams — version-change events for the apps your instance depends on.
• Investors & analysts — category dynamics for one of the largest paid B2B app ecosystems.

Output example

{
  "type": "addon_changed",
  "source": "watch",
  "key": "com.onresolve.jira.groovy.groovyrunner",
  "name": "ScriptRunner for Jira",
  "url": "https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6820",
  "changes": [
    { "field": "version", "before": "39.0.0", "after": "39.1.0" },
    { "field": "installs", "before": 34000, "after": 35000 }
  ],
  "detectedAt": "2026-08-04T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Input

Field	Description
applications	Products watched as full app sets (jira, confluence, …)
searchTerms	Search queries watched as result sets
addonKeys	Specific apps tracked with field diffs
maxResultsPerList	Result set size per list (10–1000)
monitorId	State namespace shared between runs

Reliability

Official marketplace.atlassian.com/rest/2 JSON API only — no markup to break. Strict schema validation on every item; the run fails loudly rather than storing garbage. First run stores a baseline; change events start from run two.

Scheduling

Run daily via an Apify Schedule and pipe events to Slack, email, webhooks, or Google Sheets through Apify integrations. Quiet days produce no change events and cost almost nothing.