# iTunes & App Store Scraper Goat (`goat255/itunes-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Apple's catalog without a login. Search apps, podcasts, music, movies, TV shows and books by keyword, or look up specific IDs. Returns clean rows with name, artist, genre, price, rating, rating count, release date, artwork, and store URL. Choose the country storefront.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/goat255/itunes-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Goutam Soni](https://apify.com/goat255) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, E-commerce, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#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).
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## iTunes & App Store Scraper

Search Apple's catalog at scale without a login or API key: apps, podcasts, music, movies, TV shows, ebooks and audiobooks. Search by keyword for any entity in any country storefront, or look up specific IDs. Every row comes back in one clean, structured shape with name, artist, genre, price, rating, rating count, release date, artwork and store URL.

### What it does

- **Keyword search** - results for any term, for the entity you choose (apps, podcasts, music, movies, and more).
- **Top charts** - pull the top free or top paid app rankings for any country, with each app's chart position. This is ranking data the search API does not provide.
- **Country storefronts** - search or chart any country's store (us, gb, sg, in, and so on); prices, availability and rankings vary by country.
- **Direct lookup** - fetch specific items by iTunes ID or, for apps, by bundle ID.
- **Clean records** - ratings, rating counts, price, genre, chart rank, release date, episode/track counts, RSS feed (for podcasts), and artwork in a stable shape.

#### Charts example

```json
{
  "mode": "charts",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "country": "sg",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 50
}
```

Common uses: app store research and ASO, podcast discovery, price and rating tracking, music and media catalogs, and content datasets.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchQueries` | array | Terms to search. One search per entry. |
| `entity` | string | `app`, `podcast`, `music`, `musicArtist`, `album`, `movie`, `tvShow`, `ebook`, `audiobook`. |
| `lookupIds` | array | iTunes IDs (numeric) or app bundle IDs. Skips search. |
| `country` | string | Two-letter storefront code (default `us`). |
| `maxItemsPerSource` | integer | Cap per search. Default 50, up to 200. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | object | Optional. Works without a proxy. |

At least one of `searchQueries` or `lookupIds` is required.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "searchQueries": ["photo editor", "fitness"],
  "entity": "app",
  "country": "us",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 100
}
```

### Output

Each item is one normalized catalog result.

```json
{
  "entity": "app",
  "id": 1234567890,
  "name": "Example Fitness Tracker",
  "artistName": "Acme Co",
  "genre": "Health & Fitness",
  "price": "Free",
  "priceValue": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "rating": 4.76,
  "ratingCount": 46754,
  "contentRating": "4+",
  "releaseDate": "2015-03-01T08:00:00Z",
  "trackCount": null,
  "description": "Track your workouts and progress...",
  "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/.../512x512bb.jpg",
  "feedUrl": null,
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/example/id1234567890",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-18T12:30:00.000Z"
}
```

Fields that do not apply to an entity (for example `feedUrl` on an app, or `trackCount` on a song) come back as `null`, so the shape is always the same. Podcasts include their `feedUrl` and episode `trackCount`.

### Notes

- No login and no API key. Pick an entity, set your terms, and run.
- Use `country` to compare prices and availability across storefronts.
- For apps you can look up by bundle ID (for example `com.example.app`) as well as numeric ID.

To improve our actors we collect anonymized usage telemetry (run stats and input patterns). No personal account data is collected.

# Actor input Schema

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

"search" to search the catalog, or "charts" to pull the top app rankings for a country (data the search API does not provide).

## `chart` (type: `string`):

Which app chart to pull in charts mode.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Terms to search Apple's catalog (search mode). One search per entry, for the chosen entity and country.

## `entity` (type: `string`):

What to search for.

## `lookupIds` (type: `array`):

Direct iTunes IDs (numeric) or app bundle IDs (e.g. com.example.app) to fetch. Skips search.

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

Two-letter country code for the storefront (e.g. us, gb, sg, in). Prices and availability vary by country.

## `maxItemsPerSource` (type: `integer`):

Cap per search query. The API returns up to 200.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. The iTunes API is public and works without a proxy; enable to spread requests across IPs on large runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "searchQueries": [
    "photo editor",
    "true crime"
  ],
  "entity": "app",
  "lookupIds": [
    "389801252",
    "com.example.app"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "maxItemsPerSource": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "searchQueries": [
        "meditation"
    ],
    "lookupIds": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("goat255/itunes-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 = {
    "searchQueries": ["meditation"],
    "lookupIds": [],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("goat255/itunes-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

```bash
echo '{
  "searchQueries": [
    "meditation"
  ],
  "lookupIds": [],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call goat255/itunes-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,goat255/itunes-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/gu3Ic323277xiBpmg/builds/gruV8c9EYg2BYtYIP/openapi.json