App Store Scraper & Clone Opportunity Finder

Find US apps that are missing your market — and validate your SaaS idea before writing a single line of code.

Use it on Apify | Live Demo (YouTube)

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The Strategy: App Store Geo-Arbitrage

US founders spend millions validating app ideas. Your job: find their gaps, localize the concept, and dominate your market faster.

This scraper helps you:

1. Find popular US apps that don't support your language/market
2. Extract real user reviews from your target country
3. Confirm demand by reading what users are explicitly asking for

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Quick Start

1. Find apps to localize

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("kazkn/apple-app-store-localization-scraper").start(
    input={
        "mode": "search",
        "searchTerm": "habit tracker",
        "country": "us",
        "maxResults": 50,
        "checkLanguage": "fr"  # detect apps missing French
    }
)

result = client.run(run).wait_for_finish()
dataset = client.dataset(result["defaultDatasetId"])
items = dataset.list_items().items

2. Extract reviews to validate demand

run = client.actor("kazkn/apple-app-store-localization-scraper").start(
    input={
        "mode": "reviews",
        "appIds": ["961633456"],  # App ID from step 1
        "reviewCountry": "fr",
        "reviewPages": 5,
        "filterKeywords": ["traduction", "français", "english"]
    }
)

3. Check if demand is real

{
  "appId": "961633456",
  "appName": "Remente: Self Care & Wellbeing",
  "country": "fr",
  "matchingReviewCount": 4,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "title": "Bien mais manque une chose",
      "content": "Manque la traduction en français",
      "rating": 3,
      "author": "NeTy81",
      "matchedKeyword": "traduction"
    }
  ]
}

If 3+ reviews say the same thing — that's your validation signal.

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Input Modes

Mode	Description
search	Find apps by keyword + detect missing language support
reviews	Extract reviews from a specific country with keyword filtering
lookup	Get metadata for known App IDs

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Pricing

• $0.01 / 1,000 results (pay-per-result)
• $5 free credits/month on the Apify free tier
• No Apple Developer API key needed
• No subscription

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Country Codes

Any App Store country. Common codes:

Code	Country
us	United States
gb	United Kingdom
fr	France
de	Germany
es	Spain
jp	Japan
it	Italy
nl	Netherlands

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No-Code Integrations

• Make.com / Zapier — schedule monitoring runs
• n8n — AI-assisted idea scoring workflows
• Airtable / Google Sheets — build a competitor tracking database
• Slack / Discord — get alerts when opportunities are detected

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Full Documentation

See the Apify Store page for:

• Step-by-step geo-arbitrage playbook
• Input/output reference
• Integration examples
• FAQ

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Related Actors

• Vinted Smart Scraper — Cross-country price comparison for Vinted resellers
• Vinted Turbo Scraper — High-speed Vinted listing scraper

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License

MIT — do what you want with the examples.