mcp-appstore

Implementation Reference

• server.js:986-1152 (handler)

  The core handler function for the 'get_pricing_details' tool. Fetches app details using platform-specific scrapers (google-play-scraper for Android, app-store-scraper for iOS), extracts base price, detects in-app purchases and subscriptions from metadata and description parsing, categorizes monetization model, and returns structured JSON response.
  async ({ appId, platform, country, lang }) => { try { let appDetails; let pricingDetails = { appId, platform, basePrice: { amount: 0, currency: "USD", formattedPrice: "Free", isFree: true }, inAppPurchases: { offers: false, priceRange: null, items: [] }, subscriptions: { offers: false, items: [] } }; if (platform === "android") { // Get app details from Google Play Store appDetails = await memoizedGplay.app({ appId, country, lang }); // Extract basic pricing info pricingDetails.basePrice = { amount: appDetails.price || 0, currency: appDetails.currency || "USD", formattedPrice: appDetails.priceText || "Free", isFree: appDetails.free === true }; // Extract IAP information pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.offers = appDetails.offersIAP === true; pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.priceRange = appDetails.IAPRange || null; // Extract subscription info (if available) // Note: This is limited in Google Play Scraper if (appDetails.adSupported) { pricingDetails.adSupported = true; } // Try to parse IAP items from description if available if (appDetails.description && appDetails.offersIAP) { const iapMatches = appDetails.description.match(/(\$[\d\.]+)|([\d\.]+ [A-Z]{3})/g); if (iapMatches && iapMatches.length > 0) { // Simple extraction of potential IAP prices from description const uniquePrices = [...new Set(iapMatches)]; pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.items = uniquePrices.map(price => ({ type: "unknown", // Can't reliably determine from description price, isSubscription: price.toLowerCase().includes("month") || price.toLowerCase().includes("year") || price.toLowerCase().includes("annual") })).slice(0, 5); // Limit to top 5 potential IAP prices } } } else { // Get app details from Apple App Store // For iOS, we need to handle both numeric IDs and bundle IDs const isNumericId = /^\d+$/.test(appId); const lookupParams = isNumericId ? { id: appId, country, lang } : { appId: appId, country, lang }; appDetails = await memoizedAppStore.app({ ...lookupParams }); // Extract basic pricing info pricingDetails.basePrice = { amount: appDetails.price || 0, currency: appDetails.currency || "USD", formattedPrice: appDetails.price === 0 ? "Free" : `${appDetails.price} ${appDetails.currency}`, isFree: appDetails.free === true }; // Extract in-app purchase information // Note: App Store Scraper doesn't provide detailed IAP info directly // We can try to extract from description and release notes const hasPaidContent = appDetails.description && (appDetails.description.includes("in-app purchase") || appDetails.description.includes("subscription")); if (hasPaidContent) { pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.offers = true; // Try to extract potential subscription information const subscriptionMatches = appDetails.description && appDetails.description.match( /(monthly|annual|yearly|week|subscription).{1,30}(\$[\d\.]+|[\d\.]+ [A-Z]{3})/gi ); if (subscriptionMatches && subscriptionMatches.length > 0) { pricingDetails.subscriptions.offers = true; // Simple extraction of potential subscription info from description const uniqueSubs = [...new Set(subscriptionMatches.map(s => s.trim()))]; pricingDetails.subscriptions.items = uniqueSubs.map(sub => { let period = "unknown"; if (sub.toLowerCase().includes("month")) period = "monthly"; else if (sub.toLowerCase().includes("year") || sub.toLowerCase().includes("annual")) period = "yearly"; else if (sub.toLowerCase().includes("week")) period = "weekly"; // Extract price with regex const priceMatch = sub.match(/(\$[\d\.]+)|([\d\.]+ [A-Z]{3})/); const price = priceMatch ? priceMatch[0] : "Price unknown"; return { period, price }; }).slice(0, 3); // Limit to top 3 potential subscription options } // Try to extract other IAP information const iapMatches = appDetails.description && appDetails.description.match(/in-app purchase.{1,30}(\$[\d\.]+|[\d\.]+ [A-Z]{3})/gi); if (iapMatches && iapMatches.length > 0) { // Simple extraction of potential IAP prices from description const uniqueIaps = [...new Set(iapMatches.map(s => s.trim()))]; const pricesOnly = uniqueIaps.map(iap => { const priceMatch = iap.match(/(\$[\d\.]+)|([\d\.]+ [A-Z]{3})/); return priceMatch ? priceMatch[0] : null; }).filter(Boolean); if (pricesOnly.length > 0) { pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.items = pricesOnly.map(price => ({ type: "consumable", // Assumption - can't reliably determine price })).slice(0, 5); // Limit to top 5 potential IAP prices } } } } // Add monetization model categorization pricingDetails.monetizationModel = determineMonetizationModel(pricingDetails); return { content: [{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify(pricingDetails, null, 2) }] }; } catch (error) { return { content: [{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify({ error: error.message, appId, platform }, null, 2) }], isError: true }; } }
• server.js:980-984 (schema)

  Zod input schema validating parameters for the get_pricing_details tool: appId (required string), platform (ios/android enum), optional country and lang.
  { appId: z.string().describe("The unique identifier for the app (Android package name, iOS numeric ID or bundle ID)."), platform: z.enum(["ios", "android"]).describe("The platform of the app ('ios' or 'android')."), country: z.string().length(2).optional().default("us").describe("Two-letter country code for store localization (affects currency and price). Default 'us'."), lang: z.string().optional().default("en").describe("Language code for results. Default 'en'.")
• server.js:978-978 (registration)

  MCP server tool registration call for 'get_pricing_details' using McpServer.tool(name, schema, handler).
  server.tool(
• server.js:1793-1816 (helper)

  Supporting helper function called by the handler to categorize the app's monetization model based on extracted pricing features (paid/free, IAP, subscriptions, ads).
  function determineMonetizationModel(pricingDetails) { if (!pricingDetails.basePrice.isFree) { // Paid app return pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.offers ? "Paid app with in-app purchases" : "Paid app (premium)"; } else if (pricingDetails.subscriptions.offers) { // Free app with subscriptions return pricingDetails.adSupported ? "Freemium with ads and subscriptions" : "Freemium with subscriptions"; } else if (pricingDetails.inAppPurchases.offers) { // Free app with IAP return pricingDetails.adSupported ? "Freemium with ads and in-app purchases" : "Freemium with in-app purchases"; } else if (pricingDetails.adSupported) { // Free with ads only return "Free with ads"; } else { // Completely free return "Completely free"; } }