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

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

- **URL**: https://apify.com/glitchbound/app-developer-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Meshulam](https://apify.com/glitchbound) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# 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

Four 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

# 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("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).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": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=glitchbound/app-developer-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/O03MCTKJ0jqmRudPL/builds/YJ6todjFfz3c1lhYj/openapi.json