feat(optimize): score keyword candidates against official Apple sources - #2123
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Add `asc optimize keywords score`, which composes three independent official sources per keyword: public App Store competition, public competitor metadata, and the optional Apple Ads country-and-genre demand snapshot. Any source that is unavailable is reported as unavailable rather than replaced with a zero or an estimate, and computed fields serialize as explicit nulls when the source behind them was missing. Every score ships next to the named raw inputs it was derived from under rows[].rawSignals[], so a caller can re-derive it by hand. The formula, its constants, its parity vectors, and its limitations are documented in docs/design/optimize-keywords.md. The difficulty methodology, keyword match ladder, and brand heuristic are adapted from semihcihan's App Store Optimization CLI (MIT licensed): https://github.com/semihcihan/App-Store-Optimization-CLI This is an independent Go implementation of that published formula rather than ported code, credited in the design document, the engine source file, and the README acknowledgements.
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Limit details: You’ve used the included review currently available. Your 72 included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 1 review per hour. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds the experimental read-only ChangesKeyword scoring
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds an additive keyword-scoring command, but merge should retain owner awareness for missing experimental lifecycle markers on its new flags and nondeterministic failure handling in concurrent transport tests; these are bounded follow-ups rather than evidence of production data, security, or availability impact. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant User
participant KeywordsScoreCommand
participant AppStoreSearch
participant AppStoreLookup
participant AppleAds
participant KeywordScoreReport
User->>KeywordsScoreCommand: provide keywords and options
KeywordsScoreCommand->>AppStoreSearch: search keywords
AppStoreSearch-->>KeywordsScoreCommand: competitor apps and rank
KeywordsScoreCommand->>AppStoreLookup: fetch competitor metadata
AppStoreLookup-->>KeywordsScoreCommand: metadata results
KeywordsScoreCommand->>AppleAds: request popularity by genre
AppleAds-->>KeywordsScoreCommand: popularity or source status
KeywordsScoreCommand->>KeywordScoreReport: calculate and assemble report
KeywordScoreReport-->>User: render table, Markdown, or JSON
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internal/cli/optimize/keywords_score_test.go (1)
357-361: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert that the source was found before checking its status.
Both loops scan
report.Sourcesand only assert inside the matching branch. If the source were dropped from the report, the loop body would never run and the test would still pass.Build the map once, as lines 249-252 already do, and assert on presence.
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- for _, source := range report.Sources { - if source.Name != keywordSourceMetadata { - continue - } - if source.Status != keywordStatusUnavailable || !strings.Contains(source.Error, "503") { - t.Fatalf("metadata source = %+v", source) - } - } + sources := map[string]asc.KeywordScoreSourceStatus{} + for _, source := range report.Sources { + sources[source.Name] = source + } + metadata, ok := sources[keywordSourceMetadata] + if !ok { + t.Fatalf("report is missing the %s source: %+v", keywordSourceMetadata, report.Sources) + } + if metadata.Status != keywordStatusUnavailable || !strings.Contains(metadata.Error, "503") { + t.Fatalf("metadata source = %+v", metadata) + }Apply the same shape at lines 357-361.
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- keywords := shared.BindOnceCSVFlag(fs, "keywords", "Comma-separated keyword candidates to score (required)") - country := fs.String("country", "us", "ISO alpha-2 App Store storefront country or region") - appID := fs.String("app", "", "App Store app ID; adds this app's rank") - genre := fs.String("genre", "", "Apple Ads search popularity genre; enables the popularity source") - adAccount := fs.String("ad-account", "", "Apple Ads ad account ID (or ASC_ADS_AD_ACCOUNT_ID/profile default)") - adsProfile := fs.String("ads-profile", "", "Use named Apple Ads authentication profile") - workers := fs.Int("workers", 10, "Number of parallel keyword lookups") + keywords := shared.BindOnceCSVFlag(fs, "keywords", "Comma-separated keyword candidates to score (required) [experimental]") + country := fs.String("country", "us", "ISO alpha-2 App Store storefront country or region [experimental]") + appID := fs.String("app", "", "App Store app ID; adds this app's rank [experimental]") + genre := fs.String("genre", "", "Apple Ads search popularity genre; enables the popularity source [experimental]") + adAccount := fs.String("ad-account", "", "Apple Ads ad account ID (or ASC_ADS_AD_ACCOUNT_ID/profile default) [experimental]") + adsProfile := fs.String("ads-profile", "", "Use named Apple Ads authentication profile [experimental]") + workers := fs.Int("workers", 10, "Number of parallel keyword lookups [experimental]")As per coding guidelines, user-facing commands and flags must progress through
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asc optimize keywords rank(#2120) answers "where do I rank for this keyword". It does not answer the question that decides whether a keyword is worth pursuing at all: how hard is this keyword, and does anyone search it. Both answers exist across surfaces this repository already ships — public App Store search, public app metadata, and the official Apple Ads demand endpoint — but nothing composes them per keyword.Behavior
Each keyword is evaluated against three independent sources, each reporting its own status with the same
available/empty/unavailablevocabulary the Apple Ads optimization surface already uses:public_searchappCountcompetitor_metadatasearch_term_popularity--genre, Ads credentialspopularityapp_rank--appCompetition alone is enough to produce a difficulty score, so the command is useful with zero authentication.
Degrade, don't fabricate. Without
--genreand Ads credentials,popularityisnulland the source status names the missing flags — everything else still computes. If the metadata lookup fails, the two date-derived signals fall back to a documented one-year window, the source is marked unavailable, and the affectedrawSignalsentries carry empty date strings so the degradation is visible rather than implied. A keyword whose own search fails becomes anunavailablerow whosedifficultyScore,minDifficultyScore,isBrandKeyword, andappCountserialize as explicitnullrather than as zeros. The command fails only when every keyword fails.Searches fan out with the
--workersbound from #2120. Competitor metadata is deduplicated across every keyword and fetched in batches of at most 50, so 100 keywords cost ~10 lookup requests rather than 100.Example
$ asc optimize keywords score --keywords "focus timer" --app 1234567890{ "schemaVersion": "1", "appId": "1234567890", "country": "US", "sources": [ { "name": "app_rank", "status": "available", "count": 1 }, { "name": "competitor_metadata", "status": "available", "count": 5 }, { "name": "public_search", "status": "available", "count": 1 }, { "name": "search_term_popularity", "status": "unavailable", "error": "Apple Ads search popularity needs --genre; popularity was not requested" } ], "rows": [{ "keyword": "focus timer", "status": "available", "popularity": null, "difficultyScore": 47.5, "minDifficultyScore": 40.0, "isBrandKeyword": false, "appCount": 120, "keywordMatch": "titleExactPhrase", "rank": 5, "averageAppScore": 0.6, "minimumAppScore": 0.4, "normalizedAppCount": 0.5789, "rawSignals": [{ "appId": "111", "name": "Focus Timer", "subtitle": "", "publisherName": "Alpha Labs", "averageUserRating": 4.6, "userRatingCount": 8000, "releaseDate": "2020-01-15T08:00:00Z", "currentVersionReleaseDate": "2026-08-01T08:00:00Z", "daysSinceFirstRelease": 2408, "daysSinceLastRelease": 18, "normalizedRatingCount": 0.8, "normalizedAverageRating": 0.8, "normalizedAge": 0.9507, "ratingsPerDay": 3.32, "normalizedRatingsPerDay": 0.2676, "keywordMatch": "titleExactPhrase", "keywordMatchScore": 1, "appScore": 0.6259 }] }] }--output tableand--output markdownrender summary, keyword, and source sections.Formula transparency
The anti-invention rule is the point of this PR, not a footnote. Every computed score ships alongside the named raw inputs it was derived from, under
rows[].rawSignals[]— every normalized signal, its unnormalized source value, and the per-app score. A reader can re-derive any difficulty by hand from one JSON payload without re-running the command.The full formula, every constant, the match ladder, the brand heuristic, and the limitations are documented in
docs/design/optimize-keywords.md. Two worked parity vectors from that document are pinned as tests, so the formula cannot drift silently:{avg 4.5, count 1000, last release 30d, first release 400d, titleAllWords}→nRatingCount0.1,nAvgRating0.75,nAge0.9178,nRPD0.26136,appScore0.50519{appScores [.8,.7,.6,.5,.4], appCount 120}→avg0.6,min0.4,nAppCount0.57895,difficulty47.5304,minDifficulty40Both match to within 1e-9.
Attribution
The scoring methodology — the difficulty formula and its constants, the keyword match ladder, and the brand heuristic — is adapted from semihcihan's App Store Optimization CLI, which is MIT licensed:
https://github.com/semihcihan/App-Store-Optimization-CLI
internal/cli/optimize/keywords_difficulty.gois an independent Go implementation of that published formula, not ported code. The credit appears in the design document, in a header comment on the engine source file, and in the README acknowledgements. The repository has noNOTICEorTHIRD_PARTYfile convention, so the existing "Acknowledgements" section inREADME.mdwas extended in the same format as the entries already there.Heads-up on
README.md: open PR #2062 also touches that file. My hunk is a 3-line addition at the end of the existing Acknowledgements section near the bottom, so any conflict should be trivial.Documented limitations
Stated in the design doc rather than papered over:
rawSignals[].subtitleis emitted as an empty string so the gap is visible. The ladder still implements and tests those rungs, so a future subtitle source drops straight in.generatedAtand every raw input travel with it.appCountsaturates at 200, matching the public search request cap.Adaptations worth a maintainer's attention
Two premises shifted during implementation. Both are documented in the design doc's limitations section as natural follow-ups:
--genrewas added. Popularity is scoped by country and genre, so bare keyword lists can request demand without--app. The app flag is reserved for rank for the selected app. When genre or credentials are absent, the source reports exactly what is missing.internal/itunes.Appdoes not exposereleaseDateorcurrentVersionReleaseDate, and I deliberately did not widen that shared type while other work is in flight there.internal/cli/optimize/keywords_metadata.goreads those two fields from the same public lookup endpoint using that client's own base URL and HTTP client — an isolated ~60-line seam. Folding it intointernal/itunesonce the in-flight work lands is the obvious cleanup.Tests
internal/cli/optimize/keywords_difficulty_test.go— both mandatory parity vectors, per-signal normalization edges (clamps, rating-count damping, stale releases, missing and unparseable dates, day flooring, velocity ceiling), difficulty fallback/clamp/saturation, the full match ladder in order including NFKC compatibility folding and accent preservation, and the brand heuristic including the exact median boundary.internal/cli/optimize/keywords_score_test.go—httptestcoverage for full compose, thin-window fallback, per-keyword failure isolation, Ads popularity flattening (most recent week wins), ads-unavailable degrade, metadata-unavailable degrade, all-failed error, registered table and markdown rendering without a JSON fallback, and every usage error asserted to run before any client is built.internal/cli/cmdtest/optimize_keywords_score_test.go— end-to-end through the real root command: help wiring, usage errors, the full JSON contract with raw-signal reproducibility, deduplicated lookup batching, explicit-null serialization, fallback, and brand detection.Gauntlet:
make build,make format,make check-docs,make lint(0 issues),ASC_BYPASS_KEYCHAIN=1 make test— all green. No live API calls; all coverage ishttptest/round-tripper fixtures.Compatibility
Additive only. New leaf under the existing experimental
optimize keywordsgroup; no existing command, flag, or output shape changes.docs/COMMANDS.mdlists top-level commands only, so it is unchanged (verified). As in #2120, the[experimental]marker uses this tree's trailing-suffix convention rather than the prefix convention asserted bystability_tiers_test.gofor the surfaces it enumerates — matched to the siblings deliberately, and happy to flip it tree-wide if you prefer.Summary by CodeRabbit
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asc optimize keywords scorecommand.Documentation