App review mining & ASO

Pull App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android) app details, reviews, ratings, rankings, and similar-app lists as normalized JSON from the Crawlora API.

When to use this skill

• "What are the reviews / ratings for ?"
• "How is ranked?" / "top apps in ."
• "Find apps similar to " / competitive ASO research.
• "Pull this app's details / privacy / version history."
• Building an app-review sentiment or competitor-tracking pipeline.

Setup (one-time)

• Get a free Crawlora API key (2,000 credits/mo, no card) at https://crawlora.net.
• export CRAWLORA_API_KEY=sk_your_key_here
• All requests: x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY against https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Missing/invalid key → 401.

How it works

Choose the store (both have parallel endpoints), then the job:

1. Find the app — /appstore/search?term=... or /googleplay/search?q=... to resolve the app id / bundle id.
2. Details — /appstore/app, /googleplay/app for metadata, rating summary, description, and developer.
3. Reviews — /appstore/reviews, /googleplay/reviews (paginate) for the review text, score, and date to mine sentiment and themes.
4. Rankings — /appstore/list, /googleplay/list for store charts by category.
5. Competitors — /appstore/similar, /googleplay/similar for similar apps.

Full endpoint list, methods, and params: reference/endpoints.md.

Calling the API

# Find an app, then pull its reviews (GET, key=value params):
scripts/crawlora.sh /appstore/search term="notion" | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /appstore/reviews id=1232780281 country=us | jq '.reviews[].text'

scripts/crawlora.sh /googleplay/search q="notion" | jq '.'
scripts/crawlora.sh /googleplay/reviews appId="notion.id" | jq '.'

Raw curl fallback:

curl -fsS -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY" \
  "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/appstore/search?term=notion" | jq '.'

Endpoint reference

See reference/endpoints.md for every App Store and Google Play endpoint this skill uses (method, path, params, description).

Examples

• Review sentiment: resolve the app id via search → /appstore/reviews (paginate) → classify each review's sentiment and summarize top complaints/praise.
• Cross-store compare: pull /appstore/app and /googleplay/app for the same product to compare ratings and review volume across platforms.
• Category ranking watch: /googleplay/list for a category to track where an app sits in the charts over time.

Notes & limits

• Credits / pay-on-success: billed only on 2xx; free tier 2,000 credits/mo. Key at https://crawlora.net.
• Public data only — public store pages; respect Apple's and Google's terms.
• Security: key lives in CRAWLORA_API_KEY only — never hardcode, query-param, or commit it.
• Reviews are paginated and locale-specific — pass country/page to widen coverage.