Google Play Reviews Scraper

Turn Google Play reviews into clean, structured data in seconds. Enter a Play Store URL or Android package ID to collect ratings, review text, dates, reviewer details, helpful votes, and developer replies. Scrape one app or compare up to 100 apps in one run, without a browser, Google account, or API key.

Use the results to spot recurring complaints, understand what customers like, compare competitors, and track feedback after a release. Each delivered review is one row in the Dataset, ready for spreadsheets, dashboards, and automation tools.

What does Google Play Reviews Scraper do?

The Actor collects public written reviews from Google Play. Each row can include:

• Rating, full review text, title when available, and review date
• Public reviewer name and avatar URL
• Helpful vote count and app version when available
• Developer reply and reply date when available
• App package ID, app URL, review URL, requested language and country, and scrape time

Choose newest reviews, highest-rated reviews, or Google's most helpful order. Narrow the results to a specific star rating, or use a date cutoff to collect recent feedback. The requested maximum is per app: two apps with maxReviews: 100 can produce up to 200 rows.

What can you use it for?

• Find bugs and feature requests in your own app's reviews.
• Compare customer feedback across competing Android apps to see what users like, dislike, and wish they had.
• Watch reactions after an app update or marketing campaign.
• Analyze one-star reviews to prioritize support, bug fixes, and product improvements.
• Spot unmet needs in competitors' reviews when researching your next app idea.
• Use real review excerpts to validate a vibe-coded MVP or give an AI coding assistant context for user stories and feature specs.
• Send review data to Make, n8n, Zapier, spreadsheets, or your own analysis pipeline.

How to use

1. Open the Actor and enter your input.
2. Enter one Play Store URL or package ID in App URL or package ID, or add up to 100 entries under Apps.
3. Optionally choose the review language, store country, sort order, maximum reviews per app, star rating, or date cutoff.
4. Click Run.
5. Open the Dataset tab to preview or download review rows. Open Output for the run summary and per-app results.

You can enter com.whatsapp or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp. Use either app or apps in JSON input; do not provide both.

Input examples

One app: newest reviews

{
  "app": "com.whatsapp",
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}

Compare multiple apps

{
  "apps": [
    "com.whatsapp",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "maxReviews": 100
}

This requests up to 100 reviews for each app, or 200 rows total. Duplicate package IDs or URLs for the same app are processed once.

Recent one-star reviews

{
  "app": "com.whatsapp",
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "starRating": 1,
  "sinceDate": "2026-10-01",
  "maxReviews": 500
}

This requests written one-star reviews dated October 1, 2026 or later. sinceDate includes the entire date from midnight UTC and requires sortBy: "newest". If fewer than 500 matching reviews are available, the Actor returns only those it finds.

Input fields

Field	Type	Default	Description
app	string	None	One Play Store app URL or Android package ID. Required when apps is omitted.
apps	array of strings	None	1–100 Play Store URLs or package IDs. Required when app is omitted.
language	string	"en"	Language requested from Google Play, such as "en", "id", or "pt-BR". Does not translate text.
country	string	"us"	Two-letter Play Store country code, such as "us" or "id". Does not guarantee reviewer location.
sortBy	string	"newest"	"newest", "rating" (highest first), or "helpful" (Google's helpfulness order).
maxReviews	integer	100	Maximum review rows per app, from 1 to 10,000.
starRating	integer	None	Filter to reviews with a rating from 1 to 5 stars. Omit for all ratings.
sinceDate	string	None	Inclusive UTC cutoff in YYYY-MM-DD format. Only works with sortBy: "newest".

Choose a review workflow

Goal	Input to use	Result
Read recent feedback	sortBy: "newest"	Newest written reviews first
Investigate low ratings	starRating: 1 or 2	Reviews with that exact star rating
Check feedback since a release	sortBy: "newest" + sinceDate	Reviews on or after the selected UTC date
Find praise	sortBy: "rating"	Highest-rated reviews first
See prominent feedback	sortBy: "helpful"	Google's most helpful order
Compare apps	apps: [...]	One Dataset with an appId on every review

These are input combinations, not a separate mode field. sinceDate filters the current run; the Actor does not remember reviews from previous runs.

Output

Every review is saved as one item in the default Dataset. The run summary is saved separately in the default Key-Value Store as OUTPUT. The summary does not contain the review rows.

Example Dataset item (illustrative values):

{
  "reviewId": "2783d30a-5541-44f4-99db-64ea1fc3b42d",
  "appId": "com.whatsapp",
  "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp",
  "reviewUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&reviewId=2783d30a-5541-44f4-99db-64ea1fc3b42d",
  "rating": 4,
  "title": null,
  "text": "Easy to use, but I would like more notification controls.",
  "date": "2026-10-13T04:38:58.853Z",
  "reviewerName": "A Google user",
  "reviewerAvatarUrl": null,
  "thumbsUp": 3,
  "appVersion": "2.26.39.79",
  "developerReplyText": null,
  "developerReplyDate": null,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-14T04:51:42.645Z"
}

Dataset field	Description
reviewId	Google Play review ID
appId, appUrl, reviewUrl	App identity and links back to Google Play
rating, title, text	Star rating and review content
date	Review timestamp returned by Google Play; edits may change it
reviewerName, reviewerAvatarUrl	Public reviewer details
thumbsUp	Helpful vote count, when available
appVersion	App version associated with the review, when available
developerReplyText, developerReplyDate	Developer response, when available
language, country	Requested review language and store country
scrapedAt	Timestamp when the Actor saved the review

Optional values are null when Google Play does not provide them.

Example OUTPUT summary for a two-app run:

{
  "summary": {
    "appId": null,
    "appUrl": null,
    "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "org.videolan.vlc"],
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "maxReviews": 5,
    "starRating": null,
    "sinceDate": null,
    "successCount": 10,
    "chargedCount": 10,
    "failedCount": 0,
    "skippedCount": 0,
    "duplicateCount": 0,
    "pagesFetched": 2,
    "stopReason": "completed",
    "apps": [
      {
        "appId": "com.whatsapp",
        "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp",
        "status": "succeeded",
        "successCount": 5,
        "duplicateCount": 0,
        "pagesFetched": 1,
        "stopReason": "max_reviews",
        "error": null
      },
      {
        "appId": "org.videolan.vlc",
        "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc",
        "status": "succeeded",
        "successCount": 5,
        "duplicateCount": 0,
        "pagesFetched": 1,
        "stopReason": "max_reviews",
        "error": null
      }
    ],
    "startedAt": "2026-10-14T11:01:26.007Z",
    "finishedAt": "2026-10-14T11:01:27.138Z",
    "totalDurationSeconds": 1
  }
}

successCount is the number of review rows saved. failedCount counts apps, not reviews. chargedCount counts review events charged for delivered rows. For a single app, summary.appId and summary.appUrl contain that app instead of null.

Stop reason	Meaning
max_reviews	The requested limit was reached for an app; it does not mean the app has no more reviews.
since_date	The next review was older than the requested date.
source_exhausted	Google Play returned no further review page.
no_reviews	No written reviews were returned for that app and filters.
completed	All apps in a multi-app run finished.
partial_failure	At least one app failed; results from other apps were kept.
all_failed	Every app failed; the run is marked failed and still writes a summary.
spending_limit	The run reached its Pay Per Event charge limit; later apps may be skipped.

Pricing

Pay $0.0001 per review delivered to the Dataset ($0.10 per 1,000 reviews). Review charges apply only to successfully saved rows. Failed or empty results have no review charge; if a run ends after delivering some reviews, only those delivered reviews count.

Delivered reviews	Review charges
0	$0
100	$0.01
1,000	$0.10
10,000	$1.00

The table shows review charges only. Check the Pricing tab for the complete current price before running the Actor.

Notes

• Google Play chooses which written reviews are available for the requested language and country. The returned text is not translated, and individual reviews may use another language.
• Star-only ratings without written review text are not available as review rows. A Play Store rating count can therefore be much larger than the number of reviews returned.
• country chooses a storefront, not the reviewer's confirmed location.
• sinceDate filters reviews before saving them and stops paging when it reaches an older review in newest-first order. Google Play controls its review ordering and may change it.
• Apps in a batch are processed sequentially. If one app cannot be fetched, the Actor continues with the others; OUTPUT.summary.apps records each result.
• For a large batch, choose a run timeout long enough for all apps and review pages to finish.

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Get in Touch

Have a question or need a custom scraping workflow? Email apizy.studio@gmail.com.