If you build a Shopify app, your competitors are a few clicks away on the same App Store page as you. You can see when one of them drops a price, adds a free plan, picks up the Built for Shopify badge or starts collecting one-star reviews about a broken feature. The problem is that nobody checks ten listings and three category pages by hand every morning for long, and a single look tells you little. What you want is the change: who moved up, who changed their plans, and what merchants said since yesterday.

App developers, product managers, agencies comparing apps for clients, and support teams watching their own reviews all have this problem. This tutorial shows how to collect that change every day with the Shopify App Store Scraper: Apps, Rankings and Reviews Actor on the Apify Store.

Where the data comes from

The Actor reads public pages on apps.shopify.com without logging in.…