# App Store & Google Play Scraper: Apps, Ratings & Reviews (`glitchbound/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the Apple App Store and Google Play: search rankings, ratings, review counts, price, version, developer, installs, and full user reviews. Built on official endpoints for reliability.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [glitchbound](https://apify.com/glitchbound) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, E-commerce, Automation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 results

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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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Store & Google Play Scraper: Apps, Ratings & Reviews

Pull **app data from the Apple App Store and Google Play**: search rankings, ratings, review counts, price, category, version history, developer, install counts, and full user reviews, for any country.

Built on **Apple's official public endpoints**, so iOS results are stable rather than scraped out of a rendered page. Every run is charged **only for apps successfully returned**: failures cost you nothing.

### 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 scraper`, `app store scraper python`.

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

| Field | iOS | Android |
|---|---|---|
| Title, developer, icon, description | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rating + rating count | ✅ | ✅ (rating) |
| Install count |, | ✅ |
| Price, currency, free/paid | ✅ |, |
| Category / genre | ✅ |, |
| Version, release notes, update date | ✅ |, |
| Screenshots, supported devices, languages | ✅ |, |
| Content rating, min OS, app size | ✅ |, |
| **User reviews** (rating, title, text, version, date) | ✅ |, |

### Use cases

- **ASO (App Store Optimization)**: see who ranks for a keyword, and what their ratings and update cadence look like
- **Competitor tracking**: monitor rivals' ratings, versions and release notes over time on a schedule
- **Review mining**: pull hundreds of reviews and feed them to an LLM for feature requests and complaints
- **Market research**: compare categories and pricing across countries
- **AI agents**: clean JSON over the API, ready for automated workflows

### Input example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "meditation"],
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "com.spotify.client", "324684580"],
  "platform": "both",
  "country": "us",
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 20,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50
}
```

**App IDs accept any of three forms**: an iOS numeric ID (`324684580`), an iOS bundle ID (`com.spotify.client`), or an Android package name (`com.spotify.music`). Dotted IDs are ambiguous between the two stores, so with `platform: "both"` the Actor checks both and returns whichever exists.

### Output example

```json
{
  "platform": "ios",
  "appId": "324684580",
  "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "developer": "Spotify",
  "rating": 4.77791,
  "ratingCount": 41186789,
  "isFree": true,
  "genre": "Music",
  "version": "9.0.60",
  "updatedAt": "2026-07-21T09:12:03Z",
  "reviews": [{ "rating": 5, "title": "Best Music App", "text": "…" }]
}
```

Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull it via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) into Sheets, Make, Zapier, or your own code.

### Which store, and which platform

| Platform | Source | Search | Lookup by ID | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **iOS App Store** (iPhone, iPad) | Apple's official iTunes Search API | yes | yes, numeric track ID | yes |
| **Google Play** (Android) | the Play listing page | no, see Notes | yes, bundle ID like `com.spotify.music` | yes |

Set `platform` to `ios`, `android`, or `both` to get one row per app per store in
a single table with identical field names, so an iOS app and its Android
counterpart line up column for column without any reshaping on your side.

**Storefronts.** The country code goes into Apple's request, so any App Store
country works: `us`, `gb` (United Kingdom), `de`, `fr`, `it`, `es`, `nl`, `jp`,
`cn`, `kr`, `in`, `br`, `mx`, `au`, `ca`, `ru`, `tr`, `il`, `ae`, `za`, and the
rest. Price, availability, ranking and review text all differ per storefront,
which is the point of running several in one job.

**Mac App Store is not covered.** The search sends `entity=software`, which is
Apple's iOS software entity, so results are iPhone and iPad apps. macOS titles
live under a different entity (`macSoftware`) that this Actor does not request,
so they are not returned and are not claimed.

### Notes

- **Android search is not supported.** Google Play has no public search endpoint, and scraping result pages is unreliable, rather than ship a feature that fails intermittently, Android is supported through `appIds`. iOS search works fully.
- **Reviews are iOS-only**, via Apple's official reviews feed (up to 500 per app).
- Data is public store listing information. No accounts, logins or personal data are involved.

### FAQ

**Why is a row returned with an `error` field?**
So you can see exactly which lookup failed and why, instead of it vanishing silently. Those rows are never charged.

**Can I schedule it?**
Yes. Use Apify Schedules to track competitors' ratings and versions daily or weekly.

**Which countries work?**
Any store country code: `us`, `gb`, `de`, `jp`, `il`, and so on. Rankings, price and availability differ per country.

### The rest of this set

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

- **[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
- **[App Store Developer Portfolio Scraper](https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-developer-scraper)**: every app one publisher has shipped
- **[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-store-scraper
```

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

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

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search the App Store for, one per line (e.g. "meditation", "budget tracker"). Returns the ranked results for each, which is useful for ASO and competitor research. iOS only; for Android use App IDs below.

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Look up specific apps. Accepts an iOS numeric ID (324684580), an iOS bundle ID (com.spotify.client), or an Android package name (com.spotify.music). You can paste the URL instead of the identifier, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify/id324684580 works.

## `platform` (type: `string`):

Which store(s) to pull from.

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

Two-letter store country code (us, gb, de, il…). Rankings, price and availability differ per country.

## `maxAppsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

How many results to return for each search term (1-200).

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also fetch recent App Store reviews for every app, attached to its row. Uses Apple's official reviews feed. Not available for Google Play.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit of reviews per app when reviews are enabled (Apple serves up to 500).

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language code used for Google Play pages.

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

Proxy settings. Keep Apify Proxy enabled for reliable Google Play requests.

## `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
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "meditation"
  ],
  "platform": "both",
  "country": "us",
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 20,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Apps from the App Store and Google Play with ratings, pricing and reviews.

# 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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "meditation"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("glitchbound/app-store-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 = { "searchTerms": ["meditation"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("glitchbound/app-store-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 '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "meditation"
  ]
}' |
apify call glitchbound/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,glitchbound/app-store-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/wTZ5E9F5dHYa2PMi9/builds/XoBcZ7DfVS12gTWV7/openapi.json