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Scrape Shopify App Store Reviews for Competitor Churn Intel

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer shares a method to scrape Shopify App Store reviews, extracting store names, countries, and app tenure from server-rendered HTML. The approach uses JSON-LD blocks and data-merchant-review markers, with URL filtering for star ratings and sort order. A no-code Apify scraper is also available for automated monitoring of competitor churn.

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The technique is straightforward but highlights how public app store data can be weaponized for competitive intelligence, raising privacy questions for merchants.
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