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Setting Apple App List Tasks

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This endpoint will provide you with a list of mobile applications published in the top app charts on the App Store platform. The returned results are specific to the app collection as well as the language and location parameters.

Your account will be charged for every 100 results returned, e.g., if you specify "depth": 101, you will be charged as per 200 results.

Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard

<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');

$post_array = array();
// example #1 - a simple way to set a task
$post_array[] = array(
    "app_collection": "top_free_ios",
    "location_code": 2840,
    "language_code": "en",
    "depth": 200,
    "app_category": "games"
);
// example #2 - a way to set a task with additional parameters
// high priority allows us to complete a task faster, but you will be charged more money.
// after a task is completed, we will send a GET request to the address you specify. Instead of $id and $tag, you will receive actual values that are relevant to this task.
$post_array[] = array(
   "app_collection" => "top_free_ios",
   "location_code" => 2840,
   "language_code" => "en",
   "depth" => 200,
   "app_category" => "games"
);
// example #3 - an alternative way to set a task
// after a task is completed, we will send the results according to the address you set in the 'postback_url' field.
$post_array[] = array(
   "app_collection" => "top_free_ios",
   "location_code" => 2840,
   "language_code" => "en",
   "depth" => 200,
   "app_category" => "games"
   "postback_data" => "advanced",
   "postback_url" => "https://your-server.com/postbackscript"
);
// this example has a 2 elements, but in the case of large number of tasks - send up to 100 elements per POST request
if (count($post_array) > 0) {
   try {
      // POST /v3/app_data/apple/app_list/task_post
      $result = $client->post('/v3/app_data/apple/app_list/task_post', $post_array);
      print_r($result);
      // do something with post result
   } catch (RestClientException $e) {
      echo "n";
      print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
      print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
      print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
      print  $e->getTraceAsString();
      echo "n";
   }
}
$client = null;
?>

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "version": "0.1.20220422",
    "status_code": 20000,
    "status_message": "Ok.",
    "time": "0.0768 sec.",
    "cost": 0.0024,
    "tasks_count": 1,
    "tasks_error": 0,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "id": "04281429-1535-0422-0000-82e2643e8446",
            "status_code": 20100,
            "status_message": "Task Created.",
            "time": "0.0084 sec.",
            "cost": 0.0024,
            "result_count": 0,
            "path": [
                "v3",
                "app_data",
                "apple",
                "app_list",
                "task_post"
            ],
            "data": {
                "api": "app_data",
                "function": "app_list",
                "se": "apple",
                "app_collection": "top_free_ios",
                "location_code": 2840,
                "language_code": "en",
                "depth": 200,
                "app_category": "games",
                "se_type": "app_list",
                "device": "desktop",
                "os": "windows"
            },
            "result": null
        }
    ]
}

All POST data should be sent in the JSON format (UTF-8 encoding). Task setting is done using the POST method. When setting a task, you should send all task parameters in the task array of the generic POST array. You can send up to 2000 API calls per minute, with each POST call containing no more than 100 tasks. If your POST call contains over 100 tasks, the tasks over this limit will return the 40006 error.

You can retrieve the results of completed tasks using the unique task identifier id. Alternatively, we can send them to you as soon as they are ready if you specify the postback_url or pingback_url when setting a task. Note that if your server doesn’t respond within 10 seconds, the connection will be aborted by timeout, and the task will be transferred to the ‘Tasks Ready’ list. The error code and message depend on your server’s configuration. See Help Center to learn more about using pingbacks and postbacks with DataForSEO APIs.

Below you will find a detailed description of the fields you can use for setting a task.

Description of the fields for setting a task:

Field name Type Description
app_collection string app collection
required field
app collection on App Store from which apps will be collected;
you can specify the following values:
top_free_ios, top_paid_ios, top_grossing_ios, new_ios, new_free_ios, new_paid_ios
location_name string full name of search engine location
required field if you don’t specify location_code
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_code
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/apple/locations
example:
West Los Angeles,California,United States
location_code integer search engine location code
required field if you don’t specify location_name
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify location_name
you can receive the list of available locations of the search engine with their location_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/apple/locations
example:
9061121
language_name string full name of search engine language
optional field
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_code
you can receive the list of available languages with language_name by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/apple/languages
example:
English
language_code string search engine language code
optional field
if you use this field, you don’t need to specify language_name
you can receive the list of available languages with their language_code by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/apple/languages
example:
en
priority integer task priority
optional field
can take the following values:
1 – normal execution priority (set by default)
2 – high execution priority

depth integer parsing depth
optional field
number of apps to be returned from the App Store SERP;
we strongly recommend setting the parsing depth in the multiples of 100, because our system processes 100 results in a row;
Note: your account will be billed per each SERP containing up to 100 results;
thus, setting a depth above 100 may result in additional charges if the search engine returns more than 100 results;
if the specified depth is higher than the number of results in the response, the difference will be refunded to your account balance automatically
default value: 100
maximum value: 1000
app_category string application category on the App Store
optional field
you can filter the results by app category;
example:
lifestyle;
you can review the full list of available categories here or by making a separate request to https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/app_data/apple/categories
tag string user-defined task identifier
optional field
the character limit is 255
you can use this parameter to identify the task and match it with the result
you will find the specified tag value in the data object of the response
postback_url string return URL for sending task results
optional field
once the task is completed, we will send a POST request with its results compressed in the gzip format to the postback_url you specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example:
http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id
http://your-server.com/postbackscript?id=$id&tag=$tag
Note: special characters in postback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23

learn more on our Help Center

postback_data string postback_url datatype
required field if you specify postback_url
corresponds to the datatype that will be sent to your server
possible values:
advanced
pingback_url string notification URL of a completed task
optional field
when a task is completed we will notify you by GET request sent to the URL you have specified
you can use the ‘$id’ string as a $id variable and ‘$tag’ as urlencoded $tag variable. We will set the necessary values before sending the request.
example:
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id
http://your-server.com/pingscript?id=$id&tag=$tag
Note: special characters in pingback_url will be urlencoded;
i.a., the # character will be encoded into %23

learn more on our Help Center

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As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.

Description of the fields in the results array:

Field name Type Description
version string the current version of the API
status_code integer general status code
you can find the full list of the response codes here
Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_message string general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time string execution time, seconds
cost float total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count integer the number of tasks in the tasksarray
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array returned with an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string unique task identifier in our system
in the Universally unique identifier (UUID) format
        status_code integer status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
        status_message string informational message of the task
        time string execution time, seconds
        cost float cost of the task, USD
        result_count integer number of elements in the result array
        path array URL path
        data object contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
        result array array of results
in this case, the value will be null

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