AppBrain CLI

The AppBrain Keyword API, in your terminal

Track rankings, analyze competitors, and generate keyword reports right from your terminal — or hand the CLI to your AI agent and let it run the keyword analysis for you.

Read the quick start About the Keyword Tracker

bash

$ curl -fsSL https://www.appbrain.com/cli/install | sh

macOS & Linux. On Windows use iwr https://www.appbrain.com/cli/install.ps1 -UseB | iex.Beta

Daily

Google Play rank updates on every keyword you track

30+

countries — find the markets where you're not ranking yet

2M+

apps indexed for competitor and keyword discovery

Agent-ready

clean JSON your AI assistant can read and act on

Hand it to your agent — or drive it yourself.

Clean data your AI assistant can act on, and rich, readable output when you're the one at the keyboard.

For AI agents

Let your agent do the ASO work

Point Claude or your coding agent at the CLI and it can pull rankings, compare competitors, and draft a keyword report on its own. Results come back in a form it can read and act on, so it chains the steps and surfaces the opportunities for you — no copy-pasting, no manual scraping.

In the terminal

Readable when you're driving

When you run it yourself you get clean, colored tables, at-a-glance rank trends, and app names you can click straight through to — the same keyword data as the web tool, right where you already work.

Complete

The full Keyword Tracker

Daily rankings, rank history, auto-discovered competitors and gap analysis, tracked keywords, and AI keyword reports — everything the web Tracker & Optimizer does, now from the command line.

Secure

Sign in once, safely

A single browser sign-in and you're in — no keys to copy around. The CLI keeps your credentials safe and out of your command history, and works just as well on a remote server or in your automation.

See it in action.

The same command, rendered for a human or piped into your tooling.

appbrain keyword rankings

$ appbrain keyword rankings "photo editor" --country us

#	App	Rating	Trend
1	Photo Editor Pro	4.6	▁▂▂▁▁ ▲2
2	PicsArt	4.4	▂▂▂▂▂ 0
3	Snapseed	4.5	▄▃▂▁▁ ▼1

Colored tables, ratings, and rank sparklines — sized to your terminal.

piped into jq

$ appbrain --json keyword rankings "photo editor" \
    | jq -r '.apps[].appInfo.packageName'

com.photoeditor.pro
com.picsart.studio
com.niksoftware.snapseed

$ APPBRAIN_API_TOKEN=$TOKEN appbrain keyword overview --json
{ "apps": [ … ] }

--json / --format ndjson for scripts, jq, CI, and AI agents.

From install to first ranking in a minute.

No package manager, no runtime, no config files to hand-write.

Install

One command installs it — a single file, no package manager, nothing else to set up.

Sign in

A quick browser sign-in with appbrain login, and you're ready to go.

Run it

Ask for any keyword's rankings, pipe the results into your own tools, or hand the CLI to your AI agent. Same data, your workflow.

Every Keyword Tracker feature, as a command.

The CLI speaks the same Keyword API as the web Tracker & Optimizer — daily rank tracking across 30+ countries, auto-discovered competitor gaps, and AI-assisted keyword reports. It's free for any AppBrain developer account — track up to 20 keywords — and an AppBrain Intelligence subscription lifts the cap to unlimited tracking.

Explore the Keyword Tracker

keyword rankingslive Google Play positions

keyword overviewyour apps + tracked keywords

keyword history90-day rank charts

keyword competitorsauto-discovered gaps

keyword reportAI keyword discovery

AppBrain is a directory focused on discovering great apps and games. We give statistics, rankings and search options that Google Play and the App Store don't have. All trademarks are owned by their respective owners. AppBrain doesn't offer APKs or binaries, and always lets users install the official version from Google Play or the App Store.

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