Proxies for App Store Scraping

No — and Apple's version of this lock is even firmer than most, so it's worth killing the idea before it costs you anything. Your storefront is a property of your Apple ID, not your connection: it follows the country of your payment method and billing address, and changing it is a deliberate account migration that requires clearing store credit, active subscriptions, and pending purchases first. An IP address from another country changes none of that — the store keeps serving your account's catalog no matter where the request exits, and the workarounds that circulate (secondary Apple IDs registered abroad) live at Apple's tolerance and complicate every future purchase, update, and family-sharing arrangement. Nothing we sell moves your account across storefronts, and we'd rather say so in the first sentence than in a refund thread. What a foreign address legitimately gives you is the analyst's view — that market's rankings, pricing, and reviews as data, no account involved — which is the actual product of this page.

By treating 500 as a window, not a wall — the cap is per app, per storefront, per sort order, and each of those qualifiers is a lever. Storefronts first: an app with a global audience has separate review streams in every country it sells in, so sweeping twenty storefronts turns one capped feed into twenty, deduplicated afterward. Sort order second: mostRecent and mostHelpful return overlapping but different slices, and pulling both widens the window further. Time third, and most importantly: the feed shows the most recent reviews, so a collector that runs on a schedule captures each new cohort before it scrolls out of range — which is how every serious review archive is actually built, by accumulation from the day you start. What no method recovers is the deep past: reviews that scrolled off before your first collection are gone unless a commercial data vendor archived them. The practical conclusion for anyone weighing this niche: the cap makes continuous collection the only strategy, and continuous collection across many storefronts is precisely the workload a country-mixed package exists for.

Because the official surface is rationed by address, and the ration is small. The iTunes Search and Lookup endpoints are genuinely official — documented, stable, free — but Apple budgets them at roughly 20 requests per minute per IP, returns 403s past it, and points anyone needing more at the Enterprise Partner Feed, an affiliate-program bulk channel most analytics teams can't or won't join. Within one address you can stretch the budget honestly — the Lookup endpoint batches up to ~50 app IDs per call, which multiplies metadata throughput — but search rankings, autocomplete, and reviews don't batch, and a keyword tracker's arithmetic overruns one IP's ration within the first minute of a run. Since the budget is per address, a pool multiplies it linearly: a hundred addresses at a polite 15 requests per minute each is 1,500 requests of sustained, block-free throughput. That's the entire mechanism — no evasion, just the same per-IP allowance Apple grants anyone, multiplied by infrastructure. Prototype on your own connection; buy the pool when your keyword list stops fitting inside 20 a minute.