App Store Reviews Scraper — Apple iOS Reviews, Ratings & App Data

Scrape public Apple App Store reviews and app data for any of the ~175 storefronts, with no login and no API key. It is HTTP only, with no browser, and runs at 256 MB. It is the companion to our Google Play Reviews Scraper.

• Reviews: star rating, title, text, user name, date, edited flag, developer response, app version and helpful votes (when the source has them), and a link.
• App data: name, bundle ID, developer, seller, price, currency, average rating and rating count (overall and current version), rating histogram 1–5, genres, content rating, version, release dates, release notes, description, size, minimum iOS, languages, device count, icon and screenshots.
• Inputs: App Store URLs (any country, with or without the app name), numeric app IDs, bundle IDs, or keyword search.
• Filters: countries, most recent / most helpful, minimum / maximum stars, and reviews since a date.

Input examples

A single app (the prefill)

{ "startUrls": ["https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 20 }

By bundle ID

{ "startUrls": ["com.whatsapp.WhatsApp"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 200 }

Several countries: the same app in the US, UK, Germany and Malaysia

{ "startUrls": ["310633997"], "countries": ["us", "gb", "de", "my"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 500 }

1-star reviews only, last 30 days

{ "startUrls": ["310633997"], "minRating": 1, "maxRating": 1, "reviewsSince": "2026-09-28", "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000 }

Search: the top 5 meditation apps, app data plus 50 reviews each

{ "searchQueries": ["meditation"], "maxAppsPerSearch": 5, "maxReviewsPerApp": 50 }

Output samples

Values below are invented.

Review

{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "12320874468",
  "appId": "310633997",
  "appName": "Chatter Messenger",
  "country": "us",
  "rating": 1,
  "title": "Keeps crashing",
  "text": "Since the last update the app crashes when I open a group chat.",
  "userName": "sunny_day_42",
  "date": "2026-10-27T11:51:06.000Z",
  "isEdited": false,
  "appVersion": null,
  "developerResponse": { "text": "Sorry about that! A fix is in version 24.21.", "date": "2026-10-28T09:02:11.000Z" },
  "voteCount": null,
  "voteSum": null,
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id310633997?see-all=reviews#12320874468",
  "source": "amp-api",
  "input": "310633997",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T12:36:18.626Z"
}

App

{
  "type": "app",
  "appId": "310633997",
  "bundleId": "com.example.chatter",
  "name": "Chatter Messenger",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id310633997",
  "developer": "Example Labs Inc.",
  "developerId": "900000001",
  "developerUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/example-labs-inc/id900000001",
  "sellerName": "Example Labs, Inc.",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "isFree": true,
  "rating": 4.66,
  "ratingCount": 12345678,
  "ratingCurrentVersion": 4.66,
  "ratingCountCurrentVersion": 12345678,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 5000, "2": 3000, "3": 4000, "4": 20000, "5": 68000 },
  "primaryGenre": "Social Networking",
  "genres": ["Social Networking", "Productivity"],
  "contentRating": "12+",
  "version": "24.20.1",
  "releaseDate": "2009-05-03T07:00:00.000Z",
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-10-20T15:01:22.000Z",
  "releaseNotes": "Bug fixes and performance improvements.",
  "description": "…",
  "fileSizeBytes": 263544832,
  "minimumOsVersion": "15.1",
  "languages": ["EN", "DE", "FR", "MS"],
  "supportedDevices": 3,
  "iconUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/…/512x512bb.jpg",
  "screenshotUrls": ["https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/…/s1.jpg"],
  "country": "us"
}

Status (free)

{ "type": "status", "input": "555555555", "appId": "555555555", "country": "gb", "status": "not_available_in_country", "message": "Local is not available in the GB App Store." }

status is one of:

• not_found: no such app.
• not_available_in_country: the app exists, but not in that store.
• no_reviews: no reviews match your filters.
• blocked: Apple kept refusing (403/429) after 4 retries on every route.
• error: anything else.

Each run also stores a RUN_SUMMARY record. For every app and country it gives:

• reviews saved, pages, and the route used and tried
• blocks, proxy escalations and status
• whether the sort was applied
• reviews filtered by stars or date, RSS holes, and why paging stopped

It also gives totals, the percentage of each field that came back empty, and an overall status of ok, partial, no_results or failed.

Field names next to the Google Play scraper

App Store	Google Play	Note
rating	score	1–5
text, userName, date, appVersion, country	same
developerResponse.text / .date	replyText / replyDate
voteCount	thumbsUpCount	RSS route only
url	reviewUrl
app name	title
app rating / ratingCount / ratingHistogram	score / ratingsCount / histogram
isFree, iconUrl, screenshotUrls, releaseDate, currentVersionReleaseDate	free, icon, screenshots, released, updated

How reviews are fetched

Each app is scraped separately in each country, through up to three routes. A route that is gone, or keeps being blocked, hands over to the next one automatically.

1. amp-api via apps.apple.com. This is what the App Store website uses today: apps.apple.com/api/apps/v1/catalog/<cc>/apps/<id>/reviews, 20 per page, with no token. It includes developer responses and the edited flag, and goes as deep as Apple lets the website go.
2. amp-api with a bearer token (amp-api-edge.apps.apple.com). The token is read from the app page (its config meta tag, or the page's JavaScript), cached for the run and refreshed on a 401.
3. RSS feed (itunes.apple.com/<cc>/rss/customerreviews/…). This has at most 10 pages × 50 = 500 reviews per app per country and sort, and no developer responses, but it adds appVersion and helpful votes.
   • Since autumn 2026 the feed has "holes": empty pages in the middle that change over time.
   • The scraper keeps going past an empty page and retries it with another URL spelling on a fresh session.
   • Pages that stay empty are listed in RUN_SUMMARY (rssHoles).

source on each review says which data source it came from (amp-api or rss).

Use cases

• App developers: see every new review across countries, including 1-star reviews right after a release.
• ASO agencies: track ratings, histograms, versions and release notes for clients and competitors in many storefronts.
• Competitor tracking: compare rating trends and complaint themes across rival apps.
• Sentiment analysis and AI datasets: clean review text with ratings, dates, countries and developer replies.
• Customer support QA: find reviews with and without developer responses.

Limitations

• Reviews are per country. Add every storefront you care about to countries. Search runs in the first country only.
• What the website route can't give. It has no app version or helpful votes, so those fields are null on amp-api reviews. The RSS route has them but no developer responses.
• Sorting. If Apple refuses the "most helpful" sort, the reviews come in Apple's default order and RUN_SUMMARY says sortApplied: false. "Reviews since" then filters instead of stopping early.
• Star filters are applied after download. A 1-star-only run of a mostly 5-star app reads many pages. The scraper gives up after 25 pages in a row with no match.
• The RSS route caps at 500 reviews per app, country and sort, minus any holes.
• Rate limits. Apple limits each IP address. Requests that get a 403 or 429 are retried on a new session with exponential backoff and, if your plan has it, RESIDENTIAL proxy. A route that is still blocked after 4 retries hands over to the next route.
• Run timeout. The scraper stops 30 seconds before the run's timeout, saves what it has and exits successfully.
• Depth. The website route returns as many reviews as Apple's own site pages through; for very large apps that is typically thousands per country, not the full history.
• Empty input runs the example app (WhatsApp, US) so automated checks succeed.
• Changes on Apple's side. All endpoints, JSON paths and token patterns are in src/mappings.ts.

Pricing

Pay per event, with discounts on higher Apify plans:

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
review (per 1,000)	$0.09	$0.08	$0.07	$0.06
app item (per 1,000, one per app per country)	$0.50	$0.45	$0.40	$0.30

Status items (not found, not available in a country, blocked) are free. No start fee. The run stops cleanly once your maximum charge is reached. Platform usage is minimal: about 600 reviews per minute on 256 MB with datacenter proxy.

Development

npm install
npm test                  # unit tests on synthetic fixtures (+ live-capture tests when captured)
npm run mock-server       # offline Apple mock on :4597 (see the header of test/mock-server.ts)
AS_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:4597 npm start   # end-to-end against the mock, proxyConfiguration {"useApifyProxy": false}
npm run capture-fixtures  # save real Apple responses to test/fixtures/live/ (needs network)
npm run fixtures          # regenerate the synthetic fixtures