App Store Keyword Ranking Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Apple's public <code>itunes.apple.com/search</code> endpoint returns app metadata for any query, but it never tells you where an app actually ranks. This Actor takes your ASO keywords, fans them across every App Store storefront and device type you care about, and writes one row per app with its exact rank position, rating, price, and metadata. No reviews, no review-scraping duplication of the crowded cluster ahead of us &mdash; just accurate keyword-rank snapshots for competitive ASO intel.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Apify Proxy + session rotation — one impersonation session per browser profile, round-robined, so consecutive requests don't share a fingerprint. Apple's endpoint is public, so this is about pacing and resilience, not evading a wall.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 403 / 408 / 429 / 503 and network errors — up to 5 attempts, and we honour Retry-After when Apple sends one.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• ASO rank tracking &mdash; snapshot where your app ranks for the keywords that actually drive installs.
• Competitive intel &mdash; watch a rival's rank across the exact same keyword set, run over run.
• Storefront comparison &mdash; the same keyword often ranks differently in the US vs. Germany vs. Japan; find the gap.
• Keyword research &mdash; pull full metadata (price, rating, genre) for every top-ranked app on a candidate keyword before committing ASO budget.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "keywords": [
    "crm"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "entity": "software",
  "limit": 5,
  "maxRankToKeep": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

keywordcountryentityranktrackIdtrackNamebundleIdsellerNameprimaryGenreNamegenrespriceformattedPriceaverageUserRatinguserRatingCountcurrentVersionReleaseDateversion

{
  "keyword": "crm",
  "country": "us",
  "entity": "software",
  "rank": 1,
  "trackId": 883898067,
  "trackName": "HubSpot: CRM & Sales, Marketing",
  "bundleId": "com.hubspot.crmapp",
  "sellerName": "HubSpot, Inc.",
  "primaryGenreName": "Business",
  "genres": [
    "Business",
    "Productivity"
  ],
  "price": 0.0,
  "formattedPrice": "Free",
  "averageUserRating": 4.7,
  "userRatingCount": 12345,
  "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-08-15T00:00:00Z",
  "version": "12.3.0",
  "contentAdvisoryRating": "4+",
  "artworkUrl512": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/example.png",
  "trackViewUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hubspot/id883898067",
  "description": "HubSpot CRM keeps all your...",
  "releaseNotes": "Bug fixes and performance improvements.",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-01T12:00:00Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.