# App Store Charts Tracker - Top Apps by Country with Rank Deltas (`gratifying_graph/app-charts-tracker`) Actor

Daily App Store top charts (free, paid) plus Apple Music most-played, for any country, with rank changes vs your last run: who climbed, who dropped, who entered. Official Apple feeds, no key, no scraping.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gratifying\_graph/app-charts-tracker.md
- **Developed by:** [Jimmy A](https://apify.com/gratifying_graph) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 chart snapshots

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

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".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

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# README

## App Store Charts Tracker - top apps by country, with rank deltas

Daily **App Store top charts** (free and paid) and **Apple Music most-played** for any country, with the part the raw feeds don't give you: **rank changes vs your last run** - who climbed, who dropped, who entered the chart, who fell off.

Official Apple marketing feeds. No key, no scraping, no review risk.

### What you get

One row per chart entry:

```json
{
  "country": "ca",
  "media": "apps",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "rank": 4,
  "id": "6476561442",
  "name": "FIFA World Cup 2026",
  "artist": "FIFA",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/...",
  "genres": ["Sports"],
  "prevRank": 9,
  "rankDelta": 5,
  "isNewEntry": false
}
```

Plus a per-chart delta report after the first run: new entries, movers, and dropouts (apps that left the chart, with their last rank).

### Use cases

- **ASO and competitor tracking**: watch your app and your rivals move daily, per storefront
- **Market research**: which categories and publishers dominate which countries
- **Trend detection**: schedule daily, alert on new chart entries (pair with a webhook)
- **Music industry**: most-played albums and songs per country over time
- **Datasets**: historical chart positions, exportable as CSV per run

### Charts supported

| Chart | Path |
|---|---|
| Apps: Top Free | `apps/top-free/apps` |
| Apps: Top Paid | `apps/top-paid/apps` |
| Music: Most Played Albums | `music/most-played/albums` |
| Music: Most Played Songs | `music/most-played/songs` |

Any Apple storefront country code works (us, ca, gb, de, fr, jp, au, br, ...). Up to 200 entries per apps chart.

### API / Standby mode

```
GET /?country=ca&chart=apps/top-free/apps&size=50
```

Returns entries with deltas synchronously - usable as an AI-agent tool.

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.0005 |
| Chart snapshot (up to 200 entries) | $0.05 |
| Rank-delta report | $0.02 |
| API call (standby) | $0.02 |

Daily tracking of 2 charts in 3 countries costs about $13/month.

### FAQ

**Why not Google Play too?**
Play has no official chart feed and its markup churns; scraping it means breakage and maintenance you would pay for. If demand shows up in Issues, a Play tier is the planned v2.

**How fresh are the charts?**
The feeds carry Apple's own `updated` timestamp, typically refreshed daily.

**Where do deltas come from?**
The actor stores each chart's ranks between runs (per country + chart). First run saves the baseline; every run after reports changes.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter storefront codes (us, ca, gb, de, fr, jp, ...).

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Which charts to pull.

## `chartSize` (type: `integer`):

Entries per chart (Apple supports up to 200 for apps).

## `trackDeltas` (type: `boolean`):

Compare against the previous run: rank delta, new entries, dropouts.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "ca"
  ],
  "charts": [
    "apps/top-free/apps",
    "apps/top-paid/apps"
  ],
  "chartSize": 50,
  "trackDeltas": true
}
```

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "us",
        "ca"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gratifying_graph/app-charts-tracker").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 = { "countries": [
        "us",
        "ca",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gratifying_graph/app-charts-tracker").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "ca"
  ]
}' |
apify call gratifying_graph/app-charts-tracker --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gratifying_graph/app-charts-tracker",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/7aIX35ButXT2HbaWn/builds/Dl5IBObhHBjDc4UdB/openapi.json