ApkJSON documentation

Quick start

Base URL: https://apiapk.cc/api/v1. Sign up, create an API key in your account and send your first request:

Machine-readable API description: OpenAPI 3.1 · Postman collection — import it into Postman, Insomnia or a client generator (openapi-generator) to get a ready SDK for your language.

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" "https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/app?id=com.whatsapp"

The data covers over 4 million Google Play apps from the US storefront in English (from another country if an app is not available in the US), refreshed nightly. Apps that disappear from the store stay in the database with their last data.

Authentication

Every request except /v1/health must include the API key in a header:

X-API-Key: ak_live_…

Also accepted: Authorization: Bearer …. Passing the key in URL parameters is not allowed: it would end up in logs and browser history.

Credits & limits

Each call costs 0–3 credits depending on the endpoint, regardless of the number of rows in the response (up to 100); the batch apps call costs 1 credit per app. Plan credits for the current month are used first, then the prepaid balance. If a request fails on our side, the credits are returned. Plans & packs

Your remaining credits are also in the _credits field of every response and in /v1/account (free).

Response format and errors

Every response has an ok field. Lists contain results, total, page, per, pages. Error: ok = false, error is the explanation, code is a machine-readable code. Dates are ISO 8601 in UTC.

{ "ok": true, "app": { "id": "com.whatsapp", "title": "WhatsApp", "installs": { "label": "10,000,000,000+", "min": 10000000000, "real": 12445120489 }, … },
  "_credits": { "cost": 1, "plan_remaining": 1999, "balance": 0, "available": 1999, "cached": false } }

{ "ok": false, "code": "insufficient_credits", "error": "Not enough credits: this call costs 2, you have 1. …" }

Endpoints

All endpoints are GET /api/v1/{name}. Pagination: page (from 1) and per (1–100), up to the 10,000th result. Sorting: sort + order=asc|desc.

* — required parameter

Code examples

# curl — one app
curl -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" "https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/app?id=org.telegram.messenger"

# curl — puzzle games with 10M+ installs, best rated first
curl -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" "https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/search?category=GAME_PUZZLE&min_installs=10000000&sort=score"

# curl — up to 100 apps in one call (POST, one package per line)
curl -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" --data-binary $'com.whatsapp\norg.telegram.messenger' "https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/apps"

# Python — apps removed from Google Play this week
import os, requests
r = requests.get("https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/removed",
                 params={"since": "2026-10-20", "min_installs": 100000, "per": 100},
                 headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["KEY"]}, timeout=30)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
for app in data["results"]:
    print(app["removed_seen_at"], app["id"], app["installs"]["label"])
print("credits left:", data["_credits"]["available"])

// Node.js 18+ (on the server — not in the browser)
const res = await fetch("https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/developer?id=5191370068110375942", { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.KEY } });
const d = await res.json();
if (!d.ok) throw new Error(d.error);
console.log(d.developer.name, d.developer.apps, d.developer.total_installs);

// PHP
$ch = curl_init('https://apiapk.cc/api/v1/keywords?lang=en&q=vpn&per=50');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['X-API-Key: ' . getenv('KEY')]]);
$d = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
foreach ($d['results'] as $k) echo $k['keyword'], ' — ', $k['apps'], PHP_EOL;

Try it

You can create a key in your account. The request goes straight from your browser. The key is not stored anywhere and is gone after a page reload. Requests from the console spend credits like any other.