# Google Play Reviews Scraper (`agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Extract all reviews of any Google Play app: rating, text, date, app version, likes and developer replies. Any country and language, newest or most relevant first.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [AgentsGearbox](https://apify.com/agentsgearbox) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.06 / 1,000 reviews

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Play Reviews Scraper

Download **all reviews of any Android app** from Google Play: star rating, review text, date, app version, likes and the developer's reply. Choose the country, the language and the sort order, filter by date, and get app details (overall score, ratings histogram, installs, developer contact) in the same run.

Give it package names like `com.whatsapp` or Google Play URLs and get a clean dataset you can analyze in Excel, feed to a sentiment model or stream into your product dashboard.

### What can you do with it?

- **Review monitoring**: schedule the Actor daily with `reviewedAfter` and get only the new reviews of your app, pushed to Slack, email, Google Sheets or Zendesk.
- **Sentiment and topic analysis**: thousands of reviews with ratings and app versions, ready for an LLM or a classifier. Find out what broke in the last release.
- **Competitor research**: compare complaints and praise across competing apps and countries.
- **ASO and product research**: see which features users ask for most before you build them.
- **Customer support**: never miss a 1-star review again, and track whether the developer replies.
- **Market research datasets**: histograms, install ranges and scores for any list of apps.

### Features

- Any app, any country (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `it`, `in`, `br`...), any language.
- Sort by **newest**, **most helpful** or **rating**.
- `reviewedAfter` date filter stops pagination at the first older review, so incremental runs are cheap.
- Developer replies (`replyText`, `replyDate`), likes (`thumbsUp`), app version, criteria ratings.
- One `app` record per app with title, developer, email and website, genre, score, ratings and reviews counts, histogram (1–5 stars), installs, price, latest version and update date.
- Apps that don't exist in the chosen country return an `error` record instead of failing the run.
- No browser, no proxy: fast and inexpensive.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `apps` | array | required | Package names or Google Play URLs. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | integer | 200 | Upper limit per app. |
| `sort` | string | `newest` | `newest`, `helpfulness` or `rating`. |
| `country` | string | `us` | Two-letter store country. |
| `language` | string | `en` | Two-letter language. Google Play returns only reviews written in this language. |
| `reviewedAfter` | string | – | ISO date. With `sort = newest` the run stops when older reviews are reached. |
| `includeAppDetails` | boolean | true | Output an `app` record per app. |

Example:

```json
{
    "apps": ["com.whatsapp", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
    "sort": "newest",
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "reviewedAfter": "2026-10-01"
}
```

### Output

Review record:

```json
{
    "type": "review",
    "appId": "com.spotify.music",
    "reviewId": "de479201-f514-4eec-bea4-28683ab62cad",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&reviewId=de479201-...",
    "userName": "Jane D.",
    "userImage": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "date": "2026-10-12T15:02:51.175Z",
    "score": 2,
    "title": null,
    "text": "Shuffle keeps playing the same 20 songs since the last update.",
    "appVersion": "9.1.90.2270",
    "thumbsUp": 14,
    "replyDate": "2026-10-13T08:10:00.000Z",
    "replyText": "Thanks for the report, a fix is rolling out this week.",
    "criterias": [],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en"
}
```

App record:

```json
{
    "type": "app",
    "appId": "com.whatsapp",
    "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "developer": "WhatsApp LLC",
    "developerEmail": "android@support.whatsapp.com",
    "genre": "Communication",
    "score": 4.62,
    "ratings": 245608347,
    "reviews": 6912345,
    "histogram": { "1": 12345678, "2": 3456789, "3": 5678901, "4": 23456789, "5": 200000000 },
    "installs": "10,000,000,000+",
    "minInstalls": 10000000000,
    "price": 0,
    "free": true,
    "version": "VARY",
    "updated": "2026-10-10T01:39:10.000Z",
    "contentRating": "Everyone"
}
```

### Pricing

You pay per review returned, plus a small amount per app details record. No platform usage fees are added on top. Use `maxReviewsPerApp` and `reviewedAfter` to control the cost precisely.

### Tips

- Reviews are **language and country specific**. Run the Actor once per market you care about (for example `country: "de", language: "de"`).
- For a complete history, use `sort: "newest"` and a large `maxReviewsPerApp`. Google Play serves reviews in batches of 150, so 10,000 reviews take about a minute.
- Pipe the dataset into the Apify integrations (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier, n8n) or call the Actor from your code with the Apify API or the MCP server.

### Limitations

- Google Play only exposes reviews in the selected language; the total number of accessible reviews can be lower than the number shown on the store page.
- Review order for `newest` follows Google's own ranking and can be off by a few minutes.

### Legal and fair use

The Actor reads public Google Play pages. Store and process reviewer data in line with Google's terms and privacy laws such as GDPR.

### Support

Need another field, a different sort or a bulk export of several hundred apps? Open an issue on the **Issues** tab; issues are usually answered within a day.

You can also email <support@agentsgearbox.com>. More actors, daily-updated comparisons of scrapers for 200+ websites and custom scraper requests at [agentsgearbox.com](https://agentsgearbox.com).

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

Package names or Google Play URLs, e.g. `com.whatsapp` or `https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music`.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Upper limit of reviews to collect for each app.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Order in which Google Play returns reviews. Use `newest` for monitoring and `helpfulness` for the reviews users see first.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter store country code (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `it`, `in`, `br`...). Reviews differ per country.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Two-letter language code (`en`, `de`, `it`, `es`...). Only reviews written in this language are returned by Google Play.

## `reviewedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO date such as `2026-01-01`. Works best with sort = newest: scraping stops as soon as older reviews are reached, so you pay only for new reviews.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also output one record per app with title, developer, overall score, ratings histogram, installs and price (`type: "app"`).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "sort": "newest",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "includeAppDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Reviews and app detail records as JSON (one item per review or app).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "apps": [
        "com.whatsapp"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "apps": ["com.whatsapp"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "apps": [
    "com.whatsapp"
  ]
}' |
apify call agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,agentsgearbox/google-play-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/x0RmIwzpLMAtcSJnW/builds/waezi6SZ3Lji9jsqH/openapi.json