App Store Top Charts MCP Server

App Store Top Charts by country: Top Free, Top Paid and Top Grossing iOS rankings as JSON

Read Apple's iOS App Store top charts for any storefront: Top Free, Top Paid and Top Grossing for iPhone and iPad, plus what just launched (new, new-free, new-paid), in the overall chart or any of 24 categories. Each row has the rank, app id, bundle id, developer, price, genre and release date, and the rank change since your last run. No Apple developer account, no API key from Apple.

This repo is the quick start for the hosted App Store Top Charts Scraper on Apify: one HTTP call from the shell, a standard-library Python script that writes a CSV, and the setup for using it as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. For Android, see the sister repo google-play-top-charts-api.

• Quick start: one curl
• Quick start: Python
• Use it from an AI agent (MCP)
• Input · Output
• Tracking rank over time
• FAQ

Quick start: one curl

Get a free Apify API token at console.apify.com/settings/integrations, then:

export APIFY_TOKEN=apify_api_...
curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countries": ["us"], "charts": ["top-free", "top-grossing"], "categories": ["all"], "limit": 10}' \
  "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/glitchbound~app-charts-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items"

The response is a JSON array, one object per charting app.

Quick start: Python

example.py uses only the standard library and writes a CSV:

python3 example.py --country us --chart top-free --chart top-grossing --limit 3
python3 example.py inputs/games-four-markets.json

A real run of the first command:

6 chart rows written to charts.csv
  US top-free #1: Vinted: Pre-loved marketplace (Vinted Limited)
  US top-free #2: Muse from Meta (Meta Platforms, Inc.)
  US top-free #3: TikTok Pro - Events (TikTok Ltd.)
  US top-grossing #1: ChatGPT (OpenAI OpCo, LLC)
  US top-grossing #2: YouTube (Google)

Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

Add this as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/app-charts-scraper

In Cursor or VS Code, the same address goes in mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=glitchbound/app-charts-scraper" } } }

The first call asks you to sign in to Apify or takes an API token. Then "what are the top grossing games in Japan right now?" is one tool call.

It is also listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.danielhagever/app-store-charts, together with the Google Play charts tool (server.json).

Input

Ready-made inputs are in inputs/. A storefront Apple rejects (uk instead of gb) comes back as an unbilled error row naming it, not as an empty result.

Output

One row per charting app. Two real rows from the run above are in sample-output.json; one of them, abridged:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "country": "US",
  "chart": "top-grossing",
  "category": "all",
  "appId": "6448311069",
  "bundleId": "com.openai.chat",
  "title": "ChatGPT",
  "developer": "OpenAI OpCo, LLC",
  "price": 0,
  "isFree": true,
  "genre": "Productivity",
  "releaseDate": "2023-05-18T00:00:00-07:00",
  "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069?uo=2",
  "chartedAt": "2026-10-26T00:57:11Z"
}

appId is Apple's numeric id and bundleId the package name; both are stable across runs and storefronts.

Tracking rank over time

Rankings are interesting over time. Schedule a daily run on Apify (or call it from cron) and from the second run on every row also carries previousRank, rankChange (positive means it climbed), newInChart and previousChartedAt, so the dataset is a rank tracker rather than a pile of snapshots to diff.

FAQ

Is there an official App Store top charts API? Apple publishes its top charts as public feeds (the iTunes RSS charts). This reads exactly those, so the ranks are Apple's own, with no key and no login.

How do I compare countries? Pass several countries in one run; each country, chart and category combination comes back in the same dataset.

Is the Mac App Store included? No. Apple serves a Top Free Mac Apps feed in the same format, but its Top Paid and Top Grossing Mac feeds came back empty, so the Mac is left out rather than offered as one chart of three.

What does it cost? It is paid per chart row; rows for charts that could not be read are not charged. The current rate for your plan is on the Actor page.

Related

• Google Play Top Charts Scraper: the Android charts, 130 countries, with Trending; quick start in google-play-top-charts-api.
• App Store & Google Play Scraper: one app's ratings, price and metadata in both stores.
• App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper: every review for an app, both stores.
• ASO Keyword Rank Tracker: where an app ranks for a keyword in both stores.
• Write-up: App Store top charts API: Apple's free chart feeds by country, and five traps.

Questions or a chart that looks wrong? Open an issue here or on the Actor page.

License

MIT