AppStore Rating Pulse
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
This skill transparently fetches public App Store ratings from Apple, with only an optional recurring cron report to be aware of.
Safe to use for checking public App Store ratings. Before enabling the daily report, make sure you want a recurring cron job and know where to remove it; also verify the script uses trusted local curl and python3 binaries.
Findings (2)
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If enabled, the skill can produce daily rating messages until the cron job is changed or removed.
This is an explicit recurring background schedule. It is purpose-aligned with the daily report feature, but it can keep running after setup.
Create an isolated cron job (sessionTarget: isolated) that runs the script and delivers the output via announce
Only create the cron job if you want ongoing reports, and keep a note of how to disable or edit the schedule.
The skill may fail or behave differently if these local tools are missing or unexpectedly replaced in the user's environment.
The script depends on local curl and python3 even though the registry metadata declares no required binaries; the dependency use is visible and directly related to fetching and parsing Apple API responses.
result=$(curl -s --max-time 10 "https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=${appId}&country=${region}" | python3 -c "Confirm bash, curl, and python3 are available from trusted system paths; the publisher should declare these runtime requirements.