# App Store Trends API

Hands your agent Android download history plus live App Store and Google Play charts. Useful when you want demand data on an app before you build or ship.

- MCP server · `type=mcp` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf (Devin Desktop), Cline, Zed, Gemini CLI
- Author: trendsapi-ai
- License: MIT · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/trendsapi-ai/app-store-trends-api
- Updated: 2026-08-18
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/mcp/app-store-trends-api

## What it does

The server speaks HTTP and sits in front of the Trends API: Android download history, live App Store Top Free, App Store Top Paid and Google Play feeds. The key is free and comes from trendsapi.ai.

History keywords are Play Store bundle IDs such as `com.openai.chatgpt`. Passing `chatgpt` returns 404, since series are keyed by package id. Note also that `app downloads` covers Android only — iOS appears as live feeds and nothing more, so there is no iOS history to pull.

A Python client, `trendsapi-app-store`, supports Python 3.9+ and ships both sync and async classes. You can also call `POST https://api.trendsapi.ai/api` directly with an `Authorization: Bearer $TRENDSAPI_KEY` header. Spelling matters: `source` is lowercase, `type` must match the feed name exactly, and a mismatch is a 400. Every 200 response counts as one billed request.

## Requirements
- Needs: Python and uv (commands run via uvx)
- Remote server: `https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp`

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http app-store-trends-api https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

### Codex

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
codex mcp add app-store-trends-api --url https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

### Cursor

**Config file**
File `.cursor/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "app-store-trends-api": {
            "url": "https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### GitHub Copilot

**Config file**
File `.vscode/mcp.json`:
```json
{
    "servers": {
        "app-store-trends-api": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp"
        }
    }
}
```

### Gemini CLI

**Platform CLI: remote server**
```bash
gemini mcp add -t http app-store-trends-api https://app-store.api.trendsapi.ai/mcp
```

## When to use it
- pull Android download history for a bundle ID
- compare 3-month and 12-month growth for an app
- grab the current App Store and Google Play top charts
- load a series into pandas and average it by month
- size up a niche before launching your own app

## Example prompts
- Show the download history for `com.openai.chatgpt` and its latest value
- What's the 3-month and 12-month growth for `com.openai.chatgpt`?
- List the live Google Play top 10

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