# App Store Developer Portfolio Scraper: All Apps (`glitchbound/app-developer-scraper`) Actor

App Store publisher scraper: every app a developer or publisher has on the App Store, plus publisher portfolio stats: total apps, total ratings, weighted average rating, free vs paid split and top genres. App developer data by publisher name or Apple artist ID.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-developer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [glitchbound](https://apify.com/glitchbound) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, E-commerce, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

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.

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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 Developer Portfolio Scraper: All Apps

Get **every app a developer publishes** on the App Store, plus portfolio-level stats that summarise a competitor in one row.

Search by **publisher name or Apple artist ID**: `Spotify`, `Duolingo` and `284882218` all work.

### The summary row

Alongside every app, you get one summary per developer:

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `totalApps` | 13 |
| `totalRatings` | 41,692,832 |
| `weightedAvgRating` | 4.57 |
| `freeApps` / `paidApps` | 11 / 2 |
| `topGenres` | Social Networking (4), Business (4) |
| `mostRatedApp` | Facebook |
| `lastUpdatedAt` | 2026-07-24 |

That's a competitor sized up at a glance, instead of you averaging ratings by hand.

### Input example

```json
{
  "developers": ["Spotify", "Duolingo", "284882218"],
  "country": "us",
  "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 200,
  "includeSummary": true
}
```

### Do you need an API key? No. Is there a free tier? Yes.

The two things people search for in this category, measured, are **free** and
**API key**: `app store developer api`, `app store connect developer api`.

So, plainly:

- **No API key.** Nothing to register for, nothing to rotate, no key to leak in
  a repo. The source is a public API published deliberately by its owner.
- **No proxy setup.** The source does not bot-wall datacenter addresses, so the
  default works.
- **Pay per result, not per month.** There is no subscription and no minimum.
  Rows that error or that your filters drop are **not charged**.
- **Free to try.** Run it with the prefilled input and see real rows before
  deciding anything.

### What you get per app

`title` · `appId` · `bundleId` · `rating` + `ratingCount` · `price` + `currency` · `isFree` · `genre` + `genres` · `version` · `releaseDate` · `updatedAt` · `contentRating` · `minimumOsVersion` · `sizeBytes` · `icon` · `screenshots` · `languages` · `sellerUrl` · `url` · `description`

### Use cases

- **Competitor research**: see a rival's whole catalogue, not just their flagship
- **Portfolio benchmarking**: compare publishers by total ratings and weighted rating
- **M\&A / diligence**: size up a studio's output and update cadence
- **ASO**: find which categories a successful publisher keeps shipping into
- **Lead generation**: find studios building in your niche

### Notes

- Built on **Apple's official iTunes API**, no key, no bot wall, stable by construction.
- **A misspelled developer name fails loudly** with the closest match named, rather than silently returning an unrelated publisher's catalogue. Those error rows are never charged.
- **Google Play is not included.** Its developer pages return 404/400 for both the numeric and named URL forms, so there is no clean public source. Better omitted than half-working.
- Apple serves up to 200 apps per publisher.

### The rest of this set

Six Actors over the same two stores, each answering a different question:

- **[App Store & Google Play Scraper](https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-store-scraper)**: the app itself: ratings, price, metadata
- **[App Store Top Charts Scraper](https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-charts-scraper)**: what is ranking today, by country and category
- **[App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-reviews-scraper)**: every review for an app, both stores
- **[Google Play Top Charts Scraper](https://apify.com/glitchbound/google-play-charts-scraper)**: Top Free, Paid and Grossing on Google Play, 57 countries, with exact installs and developer contact
- **[ASO Keyword Rank Tracker](https://apify.com/glitchbound/aso-keyword-rank-tracker)**: where any app ranks for any keyword in both stores, plus each store's keyword ideas

### Use it from an AI agent

This Actor is a ready-made tool for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any other MCP
client, through Apify's MCP server. Add it as a connector at:

```
https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/app-developer-scraper
```

In Cursor or VS Code the same address goes in `mcp.json`:

```json
{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/app-developer-scraper" } } }
```

The first call asks you to sign in to Apify, or takes an API token. From then
on the agent sees this Actor's input fields and calls it directly.

### Feedback

If this saved you time, a review on the Actor's Store page helps other people
find it. If something is missing or wrong, the Issues tab on the same page is
the fastest way to reach me, and it gets read.

# Actor input Schema

## `developers` (type: `array`):

Publisher names or Apple artist IDs, one per line. Names are resolved automatically: "Spotify", "Duolingo" and "284882218" all work.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter App Store country code (us, gb, de, jp, il...). A publisher's catalogue and pricing differ per storefront.

## `maxAppsPerDeveloper` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit of apps returned per publisher (Apple serves up to 200). The form is prefilled with 50 so a first run costs cents; the cap when this field is left out entirely is 200.

## `includeSummary` (type: `boolean`):

Adds one summary row per developer: total apps, total ratings, weighted average rating, free vs paid split, top genres and most-rated app. This is the fastest way to size up a competitor.

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

Proxy settings.

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

A hard ceiling on rows for the entire run, across every target. The per-target limits above cap each one separately, so fifty targets at twenty each is still a thousand rows; this caps the total. The run stops cleanly when it is reached and nothing beyond that point is fetched or charged. Leave empty for no ceiling.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "developers": [
    "Duolingo"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 50,
  "includeSummary": true,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Every app published by a developer, plus portfolio-level statistics.

# 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 = {
    "developers": [
        "Duolingo"
    ],
    "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("glitchbound/app-developer-scraper").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 = {
    "developers": ["Duolingo"],
    "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("glitchbound/app-developer-scraper").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 '{
  "developers": [
    "Duolingo"
  ],
  "maxAppsPerDeveloper": 50
}' |
apify call glitchbound/app-developer-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/O03MCTKJ0jqmRudPL/builds/LT2K7HkMgkGcfpkNM/openapi.json