/microsoftstore/apps/search

POST /api/microsoftstore/apps/search

Price: 5 credits

Search the Microsoft Store catalog by keyword

How to use it

Search the Microsoft Store catalog by keyword. Returns matching products (apps, games, and other catalog items) with title, publisher, average rating, price, icon and screenshots, categories, and release date. Restrict results with media_type (catalog department) and category.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string required — Search keyword (minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)
• media_type string — Catalog department to search in (default: "apps"; one of: "all", "apps", "games", "devices", "passes", "fonts", "themes")
• category string — Restrict results to a catalog category (default: "all"; one of: "all", "Books & reference", "Business", "Developer tools", "Education", "Entertainment", "Food & dining", "Government & politics", "Health & fitness", "Kids & family", "Lifestyle", "Medical", "Multimedia design", "Music", "Navigation & maps", "News & weather", "Personal Finance", "Personalization", "Photo & video", "Productivity", "Security", "Shopping", "Social", "Sports", "Travel", "Utilities & tools")
• market string — Store market (default: "US"; one of: "US", "GB", "CA", "AU", "DE", "FR", "IT", "ES", "NL", "BR", "MX", "IN", "JP", "KR", "TR")
• locale string — Content language (default: "en-US"; one of: "en-US", "en-GB", "en-CA", "en-AU", "de-DE", "fr-FR", "it-IT", "es-ES", "nl-NL", "pt-BR", "es-MX", "ja-JP", "ko-KR", "tr-TR")

Response

• @type string (default: "MicrosoftstoreAppSearchCard")
• id string required
• alias string nullable
• description string nullable
• publisher_name string nullable
• average_rating number nullable
• rating_count_formatted string nullable
• price number nullable
• display_price string nullable
• image string nullable
• poster_art string nullable
• box_art string nullable
• screenshots array (default: [])
• categories array (default: [])
• product_family_name string nullable
• package_family_names array (default: [])
• installer_type string nullable
• installer_id string nullable
• age_ratings array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "MicrosoftstoreAgeRating")
  • rating_system string required
  • rating_system_short_name string nullable
  • rating_value string nullable
  • rating_age integer (default: 0)
  • rating_value_logo_url string nullable
  • descriptors array (default: [])
  • interactive_elements array (default: [])
  • has_in_app_purchases boolean (default: false)
• released_at string nullable
• is_application boolean (default: false)
• is_game boolean (default: false)
• is_movie boolean (default: false)
• is_tv_series boolean (default: false)
• is_pwa boolean (default: false)
• is_theme boolean (default: false)
• is_hardware boolean (default: false)
• is_subscription boolean (default: false)

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.