Apple App Store Scraper (Apify Actor)

Search the Apple App Store, look up apps by ID or bundle ID, and pull top free/paid charts by country and genre as one clean row per app, through an Apify Actor. Callable from MCP clients via the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=pennydata/apple-app-store-scraper). Pay per use, $0.0015 per app; searches with no results cost nothing.

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Apple App Store Scraper: Search, Lookup, Top Charts (`pennydata/apple-app-store-scraper`) Actor

Apple App Store scraper for app search, lookup by ID or bundle ID, and top free/paid charts by country and genre. One clean row per app: price, rating, rating count, genres, release dates, URL. Uses Apple's public iTunes APIs. No start fee. $1.50 per 1,000 apps.

URL: https://apify.com/pennydata/apple-app-store-scraper.md
Developed by: Penny Data (community)
Stats: 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
User rating: No ratings yet

Pricing

$1.50 / 1,000 app scrapeds

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/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.

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.

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 section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: JavaScript/TypeScript (npm install apify-client) and Python (pip install apify-client).

README

Apple App Store Scraper: Search, Lookup, Top Charts

Apple App Store scraper with three modes: search apps by keyword, look up apps by numeric ID or bundle ID, and read the top free / top paid charts by country and genre. One normalized row per app: id, bundleId, name, developer, price, rating, ratingCount, genres, releaseDate, currentVersionReleaseDate, url. It uses Apple's public iTunes Search/Lookup API and the Apple marketing RSS charts. No login, no browser, no proxies. Pay $0.0015 per app ($1.50 per 1,000), no start fee.

Input

mode: search, lookup or topCharts (default topCharts).
country: two-letter storefront code (default us).
term: keyword (search).
ids / bundleIds: App Store IDs, URLs or bundle IDs (lookup; batched 200 per request).
chart: top-free or top-paid; genre: optional genre ID, e.g. 6007 Productivity (topCharts).
limit: max apps, 1-200 (default 25).

An empty input {} runs as-is: the US top free chart, 25 apps.

Example input

{ "mode": "search", "term": "budget planner", "country": "us", "limit": 20 }

Example output

Shape is real, values abbreviated.

{
  "id": "310633997", "bundleId": "net.whatsapp.WhatsApp", "name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "developer": "WhatsApp Inc.", "price": 0, "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.68, "ratingCount": 1880000,
  "genres": ["Social Networking", "Productivity"], "releaseDate": "2009-05-04T07:00:00Z",
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-10-14T12:00:00Z", "version": "26.1.1",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
  "country": "us", "rank": null, "source": "lookup"
}

Pricing (pay per event)

Event app-scraped: one app row added to the dataset, $0.0015. Searches with no results and unknown IDs cost nothing.

Honest limits

Search returns at most 200 apps per query; top charts at most 200 entries, as Apple exposes.
Requests are throttled to about 20 per minute to respect Apple's guidance and retried with backoff on 403/429, so large lookups take a little while.
Metadata only. For reviews use the companion actor below. Data is public Apple catalogue data; Apple may change or limit these endpoints.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc.

AI disclosure

This actor was written with the assistance of an AI model (Claude, by Anthropic) and is maintained by PennyData. It was tested against Apple's live public endpoints before publishing.

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Actor input Schema

`mode` (type: `string`):

search: apps matching a keyword. lookup: apps by numeric ID or bundle ID. topCharts: Apple's top free / top paid chart for a country and optional genre.

`country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter App Store storefront code (us, gb, de, ...).

`term` (type: `string`):

Keyword for search mode, e.g. "budget planner".

`ids` (type: `array`):

Numeric App Store IDs (e.g. 310633997) or App Store URLs, for lookup mode. Looked up in batches of 200.

`bundleIds` (type: `array`):

Bundle identifiers (e.g. net.whatsapp.WhatsApp), for lookup mode.

`chart` (type: `string`):

Chart for topCharts mode.

`genre` (type: `integer`):

Optional App Store genre ID to narrow the chart, e.g. 6000 Business, 6007 Productivity, 6014 Games, 6013 Health & Fitness. 0 = all apps.

`limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum app rows to return (and be charged for). Search: up to 200. Top charts: up to 200.

Actor input object example

{
  "mode": "topCharts",
  "country": "us",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "genre": 0,
  "limit": 25
}

Actor output Schema

`reviews` (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

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 = {
    "mode": "topCharts",
    "country": "us",
    "chart": "top-free",
    "limit": 25
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pennydata/apple-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

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 = {
    "mode": "topCharts",
    "country": "us",
    "chart": "top-free",
    "limit": 25,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pennydata/apple-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

echo '{
  "mode": "topCharts",
  "country": "us",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "limit": 25
}' |
apify call pennydata/apple-app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

MCP server setup

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pennydata/apple-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/GyyQrwR6dlsTD6Rku/builds/bffeuEscNuphNxGFk/openapi.json