App Store & Google Play Scraper — Apps, Charts, Reviews

Scrape Google Play and App Store app details (rating, histogram, installs, price, version, developer, screenshots, similar apps), Apple top charts and anonymised Google Play reviews. IDs or URLs, many countries, monitoring mode. $0.80 per 1,000 apps.

A Google Play scraper and App Store scraper in one actor, for ASO (app store optimization), competitor tracking, market research and app-intelligence dashboards. Give it Google Play package names or URLs and App Store ids or URLs, pick countries, and get one normalised app row per store and country: title, developer (name, id, website, company support mailbox), category and genres, star rating, ratings count, rating histogram, installs range and exact install count (Play), price and currency, in-app purchases, ads, content/age rating, release and last-update dates, version, size (App Store), minimum Android/iOS version, description, release notes, icon, screenshots, similar apps and more by this developer. Add Apple's official top-free and top-paid charts (top 1-100, any country) as an app store charts feed, optionally with full details for every charting app. As an app reviews scraper it returns the Google Play reviews shown on the public app page (up to 20 per app, country and language) with rating, text, date, thumbs-up, app version and developer reply, with reviewer names, avatars and user ids stripped (GDPR-safe). Schedule it with Only new reviews since last run to monitor new reviews, ratings and version changes. Plain HTTP, 256 MB, no browser, reads only pages the stores' robots.txt allows. $0.80 per 1,000 apps, about a third of the app-details leader ($2.30-3.45 per 1,000 plus $0.005 per run); reviews $0.04 per 1,000, chart entries $0.20 per 1,000.

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What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

type	store	title	developer	rating	ratingsCount	installs	priceText	version	updatedAt
app	google-play	Spotify: Music and Podcasts	Spotify AB	4.3	36505489	1,000,000,000+	Free	Varies with device	2026-10-14
app	app-store	Spotify: Music and Podcasts	Spotify	4.8	42653998		Free	9.1.90	2026-10-08
app	app-store	Minecraft: Play with Friends!	Mojang	4.5	843566		$6.99	26.52	2026-09-28
chart	app-store	#1 top-free (us): Muse from Meta	Meta Platforms, Inc.						2026-10-19
review	google-play	com.spotify.music: 1★ "Spotify has a new, horrendous feature where…"		1				9.1.80.2221	2026-09-16

How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the actor always respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and it stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

Event	Price	Charged	Worked example
app-result	$0.0008	per app row delivered (one app in one country, either store)	100 apps = $0.08; 1,000 apps = $0.80
review-result	$0.00004	per anonymised Google Play review delivered	20 reviews for each of 50 apps = $0.04
chart-entry	$0.0002	per Apple top-chart position delivered	Top 25 free + top 25 paid in one country = $0.01
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	per run per GB of memory (platform start fee)	One run at 256 MB ≈ $0.0000125

Input options

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
apps	array	no	—	Apps to scrape, one per line: a Google Play package name (com.spotify.music) or Play URL (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…), or an App Store id (324684580) or App Store URL (apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id324684580). Each app is scraped once per country.
charts	array	no	[]	Apple App Store top charts to fetch for each country (Apple's official marketing RSS feed). Each position is one chart row.
countries	array	no	["us"]	Two-letter store country codes (us, gb, de, fr, jp, br …). Apps are scraped and charts fetched for each country.
language	string	no	"en"	Language of Google Play text and reviews, e.g. en, de, pt-BR. App Store text is in the storefront's own language.
chartSize	integer	no	25	How many positions to return per chart (Apple serves at most 100).
includeChartAppDetails	boolean	no	false	Fetch the App Store page of every app in the chart and return a full app row for it as well (charged as an app result).
includeReviews	boolean	no	false	Return the reviews Google Play shows on the public app page (its "most relevant" set, up to 20 per app, country and language) as anonymised review rows: rating, text, date, thumbs-up, app version and developer reply. Reviewer names, avatars and user ids are never returned. App Store reviews are not available (see README).
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	no	20	Stop after this many reviews per app and country (the public app page shows at most 20).
reviewsSince	string	no	—	Only return reviews posted on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
onlyNewReviewsSinceLastRun	boolean	no	false	For scheduled runs: remember which reviews were delivered and return only reviews not seen before. State is kept in the named key-value store 'app-store-scraper-monitor' in your account, one record per app, country and language.

Limits & honest notes

• No keyword search. Google Play's robots.txt disallows /store/search and itunes.apple.com disallows /search*, so apps are given by package name, id or URL. Use Apple's top charts to discover apps.
• No App Store reviews. Apple's customer-review feed lives under itunes.apple.com/…/rss/…, which Apple's robots.txt disallows, so App Store rows carry rating, ratings count and histogram but no review text.
• Google Play reviews: up to 20 per app, country and language — the "most relevant" reviews shown on the public app page. Google's paging endpoint (/_/PlayStoreUi/data/batchexecute) and /store/getreviews are disallowed by its robots.txt, so there is no deep history and no newest-first sort. Scheduled runs with Only new reviews since last run build up history over time.
• Reviewer names, avatars and user ids are never returned, and developer e-mails are kept only when they are company mailboxes (support@, help@ … on the company's own domain). Review text is returned as written.
• Google Play does not publish app size on the web any more (size is null for Play apps); App Store rows have no installs (Apple does not publish them). Fields a store does not provide are null.
• Apple charts: top-free and top-paid apps, 1-100 positions per chart and country, from Apple's official marketing RSS feed. Google Play charts are not supported.
• Plain HTTP from Apify's servers, at most 2 requests at a time per store, with pauses. If a store shows a CAPTCHA, an 'unusual traffic' page or keeps answering 429/403, the actor stops asking that store for the rest of the run and returns free error rows for the skipped apps. No proxies, no CAPTCHA solving.
• robots.txt is re-checked at the start of every run; if a store ever disallows the pages used here, that store is skipped.
• Error rows (app not found in a country, store blocked, chart unavailable) are free. Respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and the actor stops cleanly at the cap.

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• Learn more: App Store & Google Play Scraper — Apps, Charts, Reviews on the ActorForge site

Changelog

• 2026-10-19 — Initial release: Google Play and App Store app details in one schema, Apple top-free/top-paid charts, anonymised Google Play reviews, monitoring mode, robots.txt re-check and block detection.

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