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How to find app competitors on Google Play and App Store?

With the new App Competitors endpoints in DataForSEO Labs API, you can easily find app competitors for any mobile application published on Google Play or App Store. These endpoints will provide you with lists of apps that intersect with your target app for its ranking keywords. You will obtain the IDs of competitor apps along with search volume and ranking data on competitor keywords.

Find app competitors on Google Play

1 Call the Google Play App Competitors endpoint.

POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/google/app_competitors/live

2 Specify the ID of the app for which you would like to find competitors in the app_id field.

The app_id parameter can be found on the Google Play website as a part of a URL pointing to a specific mobile application. For example, here is the URL of the Telegram app on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger

The app_id of this app is org.telegram.messenger

3 Specify the location parameters by adding the location_name or location_code field to the POST body.

Note that this endpoint currently supports the US location only.

4 Specify the language parameters by adding the language_name or language_code field to the POST body.

Note that this endpoint currently supports the English language only.

5 Indicate the maximum number of apps you wish to receive in the API response by setting the limit.

Default limit value: 100.

Maximum limit value: 1000.

Thus, you can receive no more than 1000 competitor apps in a single API response.

If you already received the first 1000 competitor apps and would like to receive more, use the offset parameter. If you specify "offset": 1000, the first 1000 apps in the results array will be omitted and you will receive data for the successive apps.

Your POST request should be structured as in the following example:

[
    {
        "app_id": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically",
        "language_name": "English",
        "location_name": "United States",
        "limit": 10
    }
]

Example of the API response:

{
    "version": "0.1.20220627",
    "status_code": 20000,
    "status_message": "Ok.",
    "time": "1.2328 sec.",
    "cost": 0.011,
    "tasks_count": 1,
    "tasks_error": 0,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "id": "06301220-2806-0450-0000-f95cd14c9061",
            "status_code": 20000,
            "status_message": "Ok.",
            "time": "1.1868 sec.",
            "cost": 0.011,
            "result_count": 1,
            "path": [
                "v3",
                "dataforseo_labs",
                "google",
                "app_competitors",
                "live"
            ],
            "data": {
                "api": "dataforseo_labs",
                "function": "app_competitors",
                "se_type": "google",
                "app_id": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically",
                "language_name": "English",
                "location_name": "United States",
                "limit": 10
            },
            "result": [
                {
                    "se_type": "google",
                    "app_id": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically",
                    "location_code": 2840,
                    "language_code": "en",
                    "total_count": 65204,
                    "items_count": 10,
                    "items": [
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically",
                            "avg_position": 7.845424150532618,
                            "sum_position": 201800,
                            "intersections": 25722,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 11243,
                                    "pos_2_3": 3642,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3990,
                                    "pos_11_100": 6847,
                                    "count": 25722,
                                    "search_volume": 3716340
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 11243,
                                    "pos_2_3": 3642,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3990,
                                    "pos_11_100": 6847,
                                    "count": 25722,
                                    "search_volume": 3716340
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.zhiliao.musically.livewallpaper",
                            "avg_position": 6.957463189298432,
                            "sum_position": 72295,
                            "intersections": 10391,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 82,
                                    "pos_2_3": 4890,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3222,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2197,
                                    "count": 10391,
                                    "search_volume": 1169677
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 270,
                                    "pos_2_3": 5102,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3811,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3025,
                                    "count": 12208,
                                    "search_volume": 1255689
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.video.downloader.snapx",
                            "avg_position": 12.530041152263374,
                            "sum_position": 91344,
                            "intersections": 7290,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 50,
                                    "pos_2_3": 841,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2923,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3476,
                                    "count": 7290,
                                    "search_volume": 1344480
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 123,
                                    "pos_2_3": 1131,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3338,
                                    "pos_11_100": 4478,
                                    "count": 9070,
                                    "search_volume": 1592618
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.yantech.zoomerang",
                            "avg_position": 12.910539558289068,
                            "sum_position": 92362,
                            "intersections": 7154,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 34,
                                    "pos_2_3": 390,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3129,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3601,
                                    "count": 7154,
                                    "search_volume": 606995
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 114,
                                    "pos_2_3": 488,
                                    "pos_4_10": 3601,
                                    "pos_11_100": 5540,
                                    "count": 9743,
                                    "search_volume": 989027
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.sss.video.downloader.tiktok",
                            "avg_position": 14.17078001218769,
                            "sum_position": 93017,
                            "intersections": 6564,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 12,
                                    "pos_2_3": 247,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2557,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3748,
                                    "count": 6564,
                                    "search_volume": 1232843
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 27,
                                    "pos_2_3": 290,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2874,
                                    "pos_11_100": 4250,
                                    "count": 7441,
                                    "search_volume": 1279668
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "video.like",
                            "avg_position": 7.701803921568628,
                            "sum_position": 49099,
                            "intersections": 6375,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 191,
                                    "pos_2_3": 2499,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2291,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1394,
                                    "count": 6375,
                                    "search_volume": 868942
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 393,
                                    "pos_2_3": 2662,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2657,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2271,
                                    "count": 7983,
                                    "search_volume": 1038350
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "co.triller.droid",
                            "avg_position": 16.26624876278456,
                            "sum_position": 98606,
                            "intersections": 6062,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 52,
                                    "pos_2_3": 172,
                                    "pos_4_10": 1660,
                                    "pos_11_100": 4178,
                                    "count": 6062,
                                    "search_volume": 562430
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 205,
                                    "pos_2_3": 306,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2165,
                                    "pos_11_100": 7237,
                                    "count": 9913,
                                    "search_volume": 1294752
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.foryou.app",
                            "avg_position": 14.710082644628098,
                            "sum_position": 88996,
                            "intersections": 6050,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 14,
                                    "pos_2_3": 471,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2070,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3495,
                                    "count": 6050,
                                    "search_volume": 401341
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 42,
                                    "pos_2_3": 518,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2240,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3956,
                                    "count": 6756,
                                    "search_volume": 416134
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "com.instagram.android",
                            "avg_position": 12.68984492246123,
                            "sum_position": 76101,
                            "intersections": 5997,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 324,
                                    "pos_2_3": 448,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2476,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2749,
                                    "count": 5997,
                                    "search_volume": 1101171
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 5901,
                                    "pos_2_3": 3760,
                                    "pos_4_10": 9474,
                                    "pos_11_100": 14396,
                                    "count": 33531,
                                    "search_volume": 8558361
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "google",
                            "app_id": "tmate.tiktokvideodownloader.nowatermark.savetiktokvideo",
                            "avg_position": 11.54465541490858,
                            "sum_position": 65666,
                            "intersections": 5688,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 143,
                                    "pos_2_3": 861,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2342,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2342,
                                    "count": 5688,
                                    "search_volume": 1248665
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "google_play_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 287,
                                    "pos_2_3": 1066,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2561,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2714,
                                    "count": 6628,
                                    "search_volume": 1318967
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Find app competitors on App Store

1 Call the App Store App Competitors endpoint.

POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/dataforseo_labs/apple/app_competitors/live

2 Specify the ID of the app for which you would like to find competitors in the app_id field.

The app_id parameter can be found on the App Store website as a part of a URL pointing to a specific mobile application. It consists of numbers indicated after id in the URL string. For example, here is the URL of the TikTok app on App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id835599320

The app_id of this app is 835599320

3 Specify the location parameters by adding the location_name or location_code field to the POST body.

Note that this endpoint currently supports the US location only.

4 Specify the language parameters by adding the language_name or language_code field to the POST body.

Note that this endpoint currently supports the English language only.

5 Indicate the maximum number of apps you wish to receive in the API response by setting the limit.

Default limit value: 100.

Maximum limit value: 1000.

Thus, you can receive no more than 1000 competitor apps in a single API response.

If you already received the first 1000 competitor apps and would like to receive more, use the offset parameter. If you specify "offset": 1000, the first 1000 apps in the results array will be omitted and you will receive data for successive apps.

Your POST request should be structured as in the following example:

[
    {
        "app_id": "686449807",
        "language_name": "English",
        "location_name": "United States",
        "limit": 10
    }
]

Example of the API response:

{
    "version": "0.1.20220627",
    "status_code": 20000,
    "status_message": "Ok.",
    "time": "1.7392 sec.",
    "cost": 0.011,
    "tasks_count": 1,
    "tasks_error": 0,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "id": "06301227-2806-0450-0000-a91a31a41d33",
            "status_code": 20000,
            "status_message": "Ok.",
            "time": "0.6606 sec.",
            "cost": 0.011,
            "result_count": 1,
            "path": [
                "v3",
                "dataforseo_labs",
                "apple",
                "app_competitors",
                "live"
            ],
            "data": {
                "api": "dataforseo_labs",
                "function": "app_competitors",
                "se_type": "apple",
                "app_id": "686449807",
                "language_name": "English",
                "location_name": "United States",
                "limit": 10
            },
            "result": [
                {
                    "se_type": "apple",
                    "app_id": "686449807",
                    "location_code": 2840,
                    "language_code": "en",
                    "total_count": 23053,
                    "items_count": 10,
                    "items": [
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "686449807",
                            "avg_position": 21.670584045584047,
                            "sum_position": 60851,
                            "intersections": 2808,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 214,
                                    "pos_2_3": 167,
                                    "pos_4_10": 570,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1857,
                                    "count": 2808,
                                    "search_volume": 34513698
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 214,
                                    "pos_2_3": 167,
                                    "pos_4_10": 570,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1855,
                                    "count": 2806,
                                    "search_volume": 34508416
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "382617920",
                            "avg_position": 22.37381818181818,
                            "sum_position": 30764,
                            "intersections": 1375,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 14,
                                    "pos_2_3": 21,
                                    "pos_4_10": 344,
                                    "pos_11_100": 996,
                                    "count": 1375,
                                    "search_volume": 26604568
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 213,
                                    "pos_2_3": 317,
                                    "pos_4_10": 1309,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3505,
                                    "count": 5344,
                                    "search_volume": 42237121
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "310633997",
                            "avg_position": 6.854877081681205,
                            "sum_position": 8644,
                            "intersections": 1261,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 248,
                                    "pos_2_3": 414,
                                    "pos_4_10": 357,
                                    "pos_11_100": 242,
                                    "count": 1261,
                                    "search_volume": 7054184
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 1209,
                                    "pos_2_3": 706,
                                    "pos_4_10": 707,
                                    "pos_11_100": 558,
                                    "count": 3180,
                                    "search_volume": 9679326
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "454638411",
                            "avg_position": 22.091659785301403,
                            "sum_position": 26753,
                            "intersections": 1211,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 89,
                                    "pos_2_3": 66,
                                    "pos_4_10": 298,
                                    "pos_11_100": 758,
                                    "count": 1211,
                                    "search_volume": 25040617
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 152,
                                    "pos_2_3": 157,
                                    "pos_4_10": 636,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2417,
                                    "count": 3362,
                                    "search_volume": 63366464
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "333903271",
                            "avg_position": 12.598842018196857,
                            "sum_position": 15232,
                            "intersections": 1209,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 23,
                                    "pos_2_3": 302,
                                    "pos_4_10": 487,
                                    "pos_11_100": 397,
                                    "count": 1209,
                                    "search_volume": 26000512
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 1036,
                                    "pos_2_3": 1788,
                                    "pos_4_10": 2458,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1953,
                                    "count": 7235,
                                    "search_volume": 69783118
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "399355755",
                            "avg_position": 27.117892976588628,
                            "sum_position": 32433,
                            "intersections": 1196,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 28,
                                    "pos_2_3": 52,
                                    "pos_4_10": 105,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1011,
                                    "count": 1196,
                                    "search_volume": 3384956
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 317,
                                    "pos_2_3": 747,
                                    "pos_4_10": 1184,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3392,
                                    "count": 5640,
                                    "search_volume": 5697602
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "414478124",
                            "avg_position": 35.01021276595745,
                            "sum_position": 41137,
                            "intersections": 1175,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 8,
                                    "pos_2_3": 16,
                                    "pos_4_10": 88,
                                    "pos_11_100": 1063,
                                    "count": 1175,
                                    "search_volume": 9245555
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 112,
                                    "pos_2_3": 143,
                                    "pos_4_10": 485,
                                    "pos_11_100": 3148,
                                    "count": 3888,
                                    "search_volume": 10438998
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "357218860",
                            "avg_position": 27.057341442224153,
                            "sum_position": 31143,
                            "intersections": 1151,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 8,
                                    "pos_2_3": 18,
                                    "pos_4_10": 135,
                                    "pos_11_100": 990,
                                    "count": 1151,
                                    "search_volume": 2507611
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 173,
                                    "pos_2_3": 170,
                                    "pos_4_10": 474,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2562,
                                    "count": 3379,
                                    "search_volume": 4167797
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "1312424138",
                            "avg_position": 31.582417582417584,
                            "sum_position": 34488,
                            "intersections": 1092,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 7,
                                    "pos_2_3": 82,
                                    "pos_4_10": 214,
                                    "pos_11_100": 789,
                                    "count": 1092,
                                    "search_volume": 27245307
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 338,
                                    "pos_2_3": 418,
                                    "pos_4_10": 1323,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2990,
                                    "count": 5069,
                                    "search_volume": 134250065
                                }
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "se_type": "apple",
                            "app_id": "912561374",
                            "avg_position": 18.492523364485983,
                            "sum_position": 19787,
                            "intersections": 1070,
                            "competitor_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 1,
                                    "pos_2_3": 8,
                                    "pos_4_10": 388,
                                    "pos_11_100": 673,
                                    "count": 1070,
                                    "search_volume": 2288647
                                }
                            },
                            "full_metrics": {
                                "app_store_search_organic": {
                                    "pos_1": 429,
                                    "pos_2_3": 613,
                                    "pos_4_10": 1227,
                                    "pos_11_100": 2645,
                                    "count": 4914,
                                    "search_volume": 4027367
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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