# App Store Scraper – Apps, Ratings & Reviews (`ninhothedev/app-store-scraper`) Actor

$1/1K 🔥 Fast Apple App Store scraper! Apps — name, developer, price, rating, reviews, category & icon. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Search or enter an app ID & extract thousands of apps for ASO & market research ⚡

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ninhothedev/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ninhothedev](https://apify.com/ninhothedev) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 91.7% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 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.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

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

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## App Store Scraper – Apps, Ratings & Reviews

**Scrape the Apple App Store: app metadata, ratings, review text, price, version, screenshots and developer — as JSON, CSV or Excel. Search or look up by ID. Free iTunes API, no key, no proxy.**

### 💵 Pricing

**Pay per result — $0.001 per item.** No subscription, no proxy needed. You only pay for the data you scrape, and new Apify accounts include free monthly credits so you can test it for **$0**.

### 🔎 What can it extract?

- App name, developer, bundle ID, genre
- **Rating + rating count**, content rating
- Price, currency, version, release/update dates
- Description, icon, screenshots, size
- Written **reviews** (rating, title, text, author)

### 🚀 How do I use it?

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Set the input (see example below).
3. Click **Start** and download results as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via the API / schedule them.

### ⚙️ Input example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "whatsapp",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeReviews": true
}
```

### 📦 Output example

```json
{
  "name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "developer": "WhatsApp Inc.",
  "rating": 4.69,
  "rating_count": 18155116,
  "price": 0,
  "genre": "Social Networking"
}
```

### 🎯 Use cases

- **ASO** & competitor research
- Review sentiment analysis
- App-market trend tracking
- Lead lists of app developers

### 💰 How much will it cost?

You pay only the per-result price (no proxy cost):
100 → ~$0.1 · 1,000 → ~$1 · 10,000 → ~$10

### 🆚 Why this one

| Feature | This actor | Others |
|---|---|---|
| Apps + ratings + reviews | ✅ | apps only |
| Any country storefront | ✅ | ❌ |
| No key/proxy | ✅ | sometimes paid |

### 🔗 Related actors

- [Google Play Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/google-play-scraper) — Android apps
- [Podcast Intelligence Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/podcast-intelligence-scraper) — podcasts
- [Itunes Store Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/itunes-store-scraper) — media
- [Steam Games Scraper](https://apify.com/ninhothedev/steam-games-scraper) — games

### ❓ FAQ

**Key/proxy?** No. **Reviews?** Enable includeReviews. **Countries?** Any Apple storefront.

### 🛟 Support

Found a bug or need an extra field? Open an issue on the actor — fixes and new fields ship fast.

### Legal & privacy

Public App Store data via Apple's iTunes API. Respect Apple's terms.

***

**Keywords:** app store scraper, ios apps, app ratings, reviews, ASO, app market, JSON CSV Excel

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search = find apps by keyword (query + country + maxResults); lookup = fetch specific apps by their numeric App Store ids (appIds).

## `query` (type: `string`):

Keyword or app name to search for (mode=search), e.g. 'whatsapp', 'photo editor', 'budget tracker'.

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

Two-letter App Store storefront / country code, e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'de'. Affects ratings, pricing and reviews.

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

Numeric Apple App Store ids to fetch (mode=lookup), e.g. \['310633997']. Found in the App Store URL after 'id'.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of apps to return in search mode (1-200).

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

If enabled, enrich each app with its most-recent customer reviews (author, rating, title, text, version, date).

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of recent reviews to fetch per app when includeReviews is enabled (1-500).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "whatsapp",
  "country": "us",
  "appIds": [],
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviews": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "query": "whatsapp",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "maxReviews": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ninhothedev/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 = {
    "query": "whatsapp",
    "maxResults": 25,
    "maxReviews": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ninhothedev/app-store-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 '{
  "query": "whatsapp",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "maxReviews": 50
}' |
apify call ninhothedev/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/KnAGVZ1Q4XdBMUeMA/builds/otgkfAsoEr6v3WU8Y/openapi.json