AppStore API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Apple App Store Editorial Pages API to extract supported public AppStore data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/appstore/editorialReturns the curated editorial shelves from one of Apple's per-device App Store landing pages (the same content shown by apps.apple.com's device switcher). `device` enum: `iphone`, `ipad`, `mac`, `vision`, `watch`, `tv`. `section` enum: `main` (the device's Today/Discover/Apps & Games landing page), `arcade` (the device's Apple Arcade landing page). Watch has no Arcade page — `device=watch` with `section=arcade` returns `400`. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| device | string | Yes | Apple device catalog Allowed values: iphone, ipad, mac, vision, watch, tv | ||
| section | string | No | Editorial section within the device Allowed values: main, arcade | ||
| country | string | No | Two-letter storefront country code | ||
| lang | string | No | Result language tag | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/appstore/editorial?device=iphone§ion=main&country=us&lang=en" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid parameters | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Page not found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal server error | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"device": "vision",
"section": "main",
"title": "Apps & Games",
"seo_title": "Apps & Games for Vision - App Store",
"page_id": "6442720677",
"shelves": [
{
"id": "shelf_eds.20684838-fafb-4c26-b7a0-8fb0980a2e9e",
"title": "What's New",
"content_type": "smallLockup",
"items": [
{
"kind": "Lockup",
"id": 6753299273,
"bundle_id": "com.lamborghini.visionpro",
"title": "Lamborghini",
"subtitle": "Lifestyle",
"developer_name": "Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.",
"age_rating": "4+",
"icon_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/...",
"url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lamborghini/id6753299273"
}
]
},
{
"id": "shelf_eds.c355fd32-a03d-453b-a975-e07ba69ddcb7",
"title": "Browse by Category",
"content_type": "smallBrick",
"items": [
{
"kind": "Brick",
"title": "Entertainment Apps",
"url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/vision/editorial/6503709728",
"destination_id": "6503709728"
}
]
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/appstore.editorialResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | appstore.EditorialPage | No | ||||
| data.device | string | No | ||||
| data.page_id | string | No | ||||
| data.section | string | No | main | arcade | category | |||
| data.seo_title | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves | array | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].content_type | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].id | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items | array | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].age_rating | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].bundle_id | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].destination_id | string | No | DestinationID is the item's clickAction.destination.id. For a "Browse by Category" shelf item this is the target category's editorial page ID — pass it as EditorialCategoryOption.CategoryID for the SAME device. Live-verified this is NOT unique to category links, though: a regular single-app item (e.g. Lockup) carries its own ID here too (a self-referential page link, duplicating ID/AdamID) — so callers looking for a category ID should scope to the shelf titled "Browse by Category" rather than taking the first non-empty DestinationID from any shelf. | |||
| data.shelves[].items[].developer_name | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].icon_url | string | No | template URL with unresolved size tokens | |||
| data.shelves[].items[].id | integer | No | App Store numeric track ID, when this item is a single app (same ID space as App.ID) | |||
| data.shelves[].items[].kind | string | No | raw Apple "$kind" | |||
| data.shelves[].items[].rating | number | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].rating_count | integer | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].subtitle | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].title | string | No | ||||
| data.shelves[].items[].url | string | No | the item's own apps.apple.com page, when it links to one | |||
| data.shelves[].title | string | No | absent for hero/quick-links shelves | |||
| data.title | string | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/appstore/editorial?device=iphone§ion=main&country=us&lang=en" \
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