App Store Top Charts Scraper

App Store Top Charts Scraper — Extracto API reference

Collect Top Free and Top Paid iPhone app charts by country and category, with chart positions, publishers, prices and store links.

Collection scope

This collects a snapshot of public iPhone charts, up to 100 entries per country, chart and category. The maximum results setting caps the whole task. A chart can contain fewer entries or be unavailable. Ratings enrichment, iPad charts, grossing charts and review text are not included. The same app can appear in several charts; each chart entry is a result.

Using Extracto

Extracto provides a web interface and HTTP API for submitting scraping tasks, tracking their status and retrieving structured results. Some parsers use third-party scraping providers for execution. Your Extracto account, API key and credit balance are managed at extracto.cloud.

Create an account at https://extracto.cloud/register, confirm your email and create an API key at https://extracto.cloud/api-keys. You can also configure and run this parser in the web interface at https://extracto.cloud/marketplace/app-store-top-charts-scraper.

Pricing and credits

Current Extracto price: $1.302932 / 1,000 results. Extracto charges your credit balance for parser usage. 1,000 credits correspond to $1 USD. The displayed rate includes Extracto pricing; additional enabled options are shown in the estimate. Review the cost estimate in the web interface or POST your request body to https://extracto.cloud/api/v1/parsers/app-store-top-charts-scraper/estimate before launching a task. An estimate does not start scraping. Credit packages are listed at https://extracto.cloud/pricing; billing details are at https://extracto.cloud/docs#billing.

Input

Send JSON with the parser settings inside an input object. The example is a starting point: replace the sources and limits with your own permitted targets. Launching it starts a real task and can spend credits.

{
    "input": {
        "countries": [
            "us"
        ],
        "chartTypes": [
            "topfreeapplications"
        ],
        "genreIds": [
            "6007"
        ],
        "maxItems": 20
    }
}

• countries (array, required)
• chartTypes (array, required)
• genreIds (array, optional)
• maxItems (integer, optional)

Requests and authentication

Use your Extracto key in the X-API-KEY header. Send Content-Type: application/json and Accept: application/json. Keep the key private on your server.

POST https://extracto.cloud/api/v1/parsers/app-store-top-charts-scraper — wait for a synchronous result. Successful output is in data, with the result count in count and usage in meta.credits. POST https://extracto.cloud/api/v1/parsers/app-store-top-charts-scraper/queue — submit a queued task. Save run.id from the HTTP 202 response. GET https://extracto.cloud/api/v1/parser-runs/{run_id} — check a saved task using the same account's API key. Poll about once every five seconds while its status is queued or running. Stop at ok, partial, cancelled or error. Saved results are in run.result; failures are described in run.error.

Integration examples, response formats, errors and limits: https://extracto.cloud/docs.

Output

Returned fields depend on the parser, input and source availability. A successful task can return no matching records. Availability and completion time can change when the source website changes. The following sample is illustrative documentation data, not a customer run or a guarantee of results:

[
    {
        "rank": 1,
        "appName": "Muse from Meta",
        "priceFormatted": "Get",
        "developer": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "category": "Productivity",
        "country": "us",
        "chart": "topfreeapplications",
        "genreId": "6007",
        "appId": "6760173601",
        "appUrl": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/muse-from-meta/id6760173601?uo=2"
    }
]

• rank (integer): Position in the requested country, chart and category.
• appName (string): App name in the returned chart.
• priceFormatted (string): Displayed storefront price.
• developer (string): Publisher listed by the store.
• category (string): Primary app category; this can differ from the requested chart category.
• country (string): Country storefront of this chart entry.
• chart (string): Chart identifier returned by the source.
• genreId (string): Requested App Store chart category identifier.
• appId (string): Apple app identifier.
• appUrl (string): Public App Store listing link.

Example uses

• Compare app charts across country storefronts.
• Research leading free and paid apps in a category.
• Export ranked app lists for your own market research.

Responsible use and support

Use this parser only for data you are permitted to access and process. Follow applicable laws, source website terms and Extracto's acceptable-use policy: https://extracto.cloud/acceptable-use. For help, email [email protected] and include the parser name and run ID. Never send your API key. Terms: https://extracto.cloud/terms Privacy: https://extracto.cloud/privacy Refund policy: https://extracto.cloud/refund-policy