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app-store-scraper
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By mintuz/skills (GitHub) · data · 35 stars · scanned at commit 8cc95d9
WHEN scraping iOS/macOS App Store data (apps, reviews, ratings, search); NOT for installing or testing apps; retrieves structured JSON data using iTunes/App Store APIs with curl and jq formatting
Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.
What this skill can do
Sends data to these websites: itunes.apple.com
The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.
Found in 64 places.
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- src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/SKILL.md, line 217
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=weather&media=software&entity=software&limit=10" - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/SKILL.md, line 220
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topfreeapplications/limit=25/json" - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/SKILL.md, line 223
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/customerreviews/page=1/id=553834731/sortby=mostrecent/json" - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/SKILL.md, line 228
1. **Validate responses** before you extract fields. For every endpoint: transport (`curl -fsS`). For every JSON endpoint: exactly one JSON object (`jq -es 'len - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/SKILL.md, line 229
2. **Encode free-text values** (search terms, bundle IDs) with `curl -G --data-urlencode` so that curl encodes spaces and reserved characters such as `&`. Numer - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/app-lookup.md, line 27
1. Require a successful transport and HTTP response. Use `curl -fsS` so that an HTTP error exits non-zero. - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/app-lookup.md, line 35
BODY=$(curl -fsS -G "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup" \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/app-lookup.md, line 54
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=553834731&country=us&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/app-lookup.md, line 73
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId=com.apple.Numbers&country=us&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/app-lookup.md, line 85
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=553834731,361309726&country=us&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 24
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215&country=us&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 38
DEV_ID=$(curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId=com.apple.Numbers" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 44
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=${DEV_ID}&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 51
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 58
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 70
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882215&entity=software" | \ - src/app/skills/app-store-scraper/endpoints/developer.md, line 110
curl -s "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=553834731" | \
and 44 more places
Runs commands on your computer
This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.
Found in 8 places.
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Downloads and installs other software
The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.
Found in 2 places.
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Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'app-store-scraper' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'app-store-scraper' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named app-store-scraper already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mintuz/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8cc95d9146ca13624d48611702d0ab12bbe7756a' -- 'src/app/skills/app-store-scraper' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'src/app/skills/app-store-scraper' ~/.agents/skills/'app-store-scraper' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'app-store-scraper' ~/.claude/skills/'app-store-scraper' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
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| 2026-11-13 | 8cc95d9 | 77 |
| 2026-11-07 | 4e0a12b | 77 |