Google Play Store Scraper

Find Android apps by keyword, browse Google Play Top Charts, or get complete app details from package IDs and Play Store URLs. Collect titles, icons, screenshots, descriptions, ratings, public install badges, prices, and publisher information as clean Dataset rows. Search multiple keywords or look up up to 100 apps in one run. No browser or Google account is required; HTTP API calls use an Apify token.

Use the results to research competitors, explore a category, compare pricing, discover publishers, and plan what to build next. Pay per app delivered: $0.003 for a quick listing or $0.006 for full details. Failed apps have no result charge; Actor Start and Apify platform usage are separate.

What does Google Play Store Scraper do?

The Actor has three modes:

Mode	What you provide	What you get
Search	One keyword or up to 20 keywords	Ranked search results, with every matching keyword and rank retained
Charts	Top Free, Top Paid, or Top Grossing plus a category	Ranked apps for a selected country and category, including RPG, Productivity, or Finance
Details	One app or up to 100 package IDs/Play Store URLs	Full public details for each available app

Search and Charts return quick listings by default. Turn on Fetch full app details to add descriptions, screenshots, install badges, ratings breakdowns, and publisher fields. Details mode always returns full details. Each unique app appears once per run in the Dataset, even if it matches several keywords. Its contexts field preserves every keyword and rank.

What can you use it for?

• Research competitors: Find apps in your niche and compare their positioning, ratings, prices, and publishers.
• Explore market leaders: Capture Top Free, Top Paid, or Top Grossing apps in a country and category.
• Improve ASO: See which apps appear for a keyword and study their titles, summaries, descriptions, and visuals.
• Find an app idea: Map crowded categories and look for underserved angles before building an MVP.
• Compare monetization: Identify paid apps and public in-app purchase indicators. Use the selected country when comparing prices.
• Plan features: Review competing apps' descriptions and screenshots, then pair this Actor with Google Play Reviews Scraper to learn what users actually request.
• Support AI-assisted development: Give a coding assistant structured competitor data to draft a feature brief or product comparison grounded in real listings.
• Monitor a portfolio: Send app data to a spreadsheet, dashboard, Make, n8n, Zapier, or your own pipeline.

How to use

1. Select Search, Charts, or App details in the input form.
2. Enter keywords, choose a chart and category, or provide app package IDs/URLs for the selected mode.
3. Choose the store country and language if needed. For Search or Charts, enable Fetch full app details when you need the complete app page.
4. Click Run. Open the Dataset for app rows and Output for counts, errors, and the stop reason.

Only fields for the selected mode are used. For example, an app value is ignored in Search mode. The form offers dropdowns for Chart and Category; you do not need to memorize category codes.

Which inputs should you use?

Choose one goal below. Leave fields for the other modes empty. language: "en" and country: "us" are already the defaults, so you can leave them unchanged for the US storefront.

Goal	Mode	Fields to fill	Result event
Find apps for one phrase, with ranking	Search	keyword: "budget tracker", maxResults: 20; leave fullDetail off	Listing: $0.003 per saved app
Compare several keywords with installs, screenshots, and publisher data	Search	keywords: ["budget tracker", "expense tracker"], maxResults: 20, fullDetail: true	Detail: $0.006 per saved app
Get a quick Top Free chart	Charts	chart: "top-free", category: "APPLICATION", maxResults: 20; leave fullDetail off	Listing: $0.003 per saved app
Study Top Paid Productivity apps in depth	Charts	chart: "top-paid", category: "PRODUCTIVITY", maxResults: 20, fullDetail: true	Detail: $0.006 per saved app
Inspect one known app	Details	app: "com.spotify.music"	Detail: $0.006 per saved app
Compare several known apps	Details	apps: ["com.spotify.music", "com.mojang.minecraftpe"]	Detail: $0.006 per saved app

In Details mode, full details are automatic; fullDetail and maxResults do not apply. In Search mode, use either keyword or keywords; in Details mode, use either app or apps. Search and Charts with fullDetail: false give quick rankings, but fields such as install badges and screenshots need fullDetail: true. The prices above are result events; Actor Start and platform usage are separate for batch runs.

HTTP API (Standby)

Call the Actor as an HTTP service when you need a JSON response directly. The existing Run form remains available for batch jobs and saves rows to the Dataset. Standby requests return items in the response body and do not create Dataset rows.

Endpoint	Example	Result
Search	GET /search?keyword=budget%20tracker&limit=10	Up to 10 ranked listings
Charts	GET /charts?chart=top-free&category=PRODUCTIVITY&limit=50	Ranked category chart
Details	GET /details?appId=com.spotify.music	One full-detail app

Add fullDetail=true to Search or Charts for full details. limit accepts 1–250 listings or 1–100 full details. language and country default to en and us. A limit is a ceiling: Google Play may return fewer apps. A successful response reports count, durationMs, stopReason, and items. Invalid query parameters return HTTP 400.

Use your Apify token in an Authorization: Bearer header. Standby charges one Listing event ($0.003) or Detail event ($0.006) for each app delivered in the response. Empty results have no result event; platform usage still applies. The HTTP service accepts one keyword or one package ID per request; use a batch run for multiple keywords or package IDs.

Input examples

Find competitors with two keywords

{
  "mode": "search",
  "keywords": ["budget tracker", "expense tracker"],
  "maxResults": 20,
  "fullDetail": false,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us"
}

This requests up to 20 results per keyword, not 20 for the whole run. If an app appears for both keywords, it is saved once with both matches in contexts. Set fullDetail to true to enrich each unique app.

Explore Top Free RPG games

{
  "mode": "charts",
  "chart": "top-free",
  "category": "GAME_ROLE_PLAYING",
  "maxResults": 20,
  "fullDetail": true,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us"
}

Combine a chart with a category: top-paid + PRODUCTIVITY means Top Paid Productivity apps. Choose APPLICATION for all apps or GAME for all games. A chart may contain fewer results than requested, and some chart/category combinations may be empty.

Get details for several apps

{
  "mode": "details",
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us"
}

Use app for one entry or apps for 1–100 entries; do not supply both. Duplicate IDs and URLs for the same app are processed once. If one app is unavailable, the Actor keeps successful results and reports the error in OUTPUT.summary.errors.

Input fields

Field	Mode	Default	Description
mode	All	search	search, charts, or details
keyword / keywords	Search	None	One phrase or 1–20 phrases; use either field
chart	Charts	top-free	top-free, top-paid, or top-grossing
category	Charts	APPLICATION	Choose from 49 current app/game categories, or All apps/All games
app / apps	Details	None	One or 1–100 package IDs/Play Store URLs; use either field
maxResults	Search, Charts	100	Upper limit of 1–250 results per keyword or chart
fullDetail	Search, Charts	false	Fetch complete details for each found app; Details mode is always complete
language	All	en	Google Play language, such as en, es, or pt-BR; no translation
country	All	us	Two-letter storefront country, such as us or gb

Output

In a batch run, each unique app is saved as one item in the default Dataset. Standby requests return app rows directly in the HTTP response. The default Key-Value Store contains OUTPUT with the run summary; it does not contain the app rows.

Example Dataset item (shortened, illustrative listing):

{
  "source": "search",
  "detailLevel": "listing",
  "appId": "com.example.budget",
  "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.example.budget",
  "title": "Budget Planner",
  "developer": "Example Studio",
  "score": 4.5,
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "keyword": "budget tracker",
  "rank": 1,
  "contexts": [
    { "source": "search", "keyword": "budget tracker", "rank": 1 },
    { "source": "search", "keyword": "expense tracker", "rank": 2 }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-16T06:00:00.000Z"
}

A full-detail row uses "detailLevel": "detail" and can also contain description, headerImage, screenshots, histogram, installs, version, and publisher contact fields. Fields that Google Play does not provide are null.

Field group	Dataset fields	Notes
Identity and ranking	source, detailLevel, appId, appUrl, keyword, chart, category, rank, contexts	contexts keeps all keyword or chart matches for that app
Listing	title, summary, developer, icon, score, free, price, currency	Available when Google Play provides them
Description and media	description, headerImage, screenshots, video	Full details only; some media may be absent
Ratings and installs	ratings, reviews, histogram, installs, minInstalls, maxInstalls	Installs are based on a public threshold badge, not an exact download count
Pricing and category	priceText, offersIAP, IAPRange, genre, categories	Prices vary by storefront country; IAP fields may be absent
Publisher and updates	developerId, developerEmail, developerWebsite, developerAddress, privacyPolicy, version, updated, released	Contact and update fields are optional
Capture context	language, country, scrapedAt	Requested locale and capture time

Example OUTPUT summary (shortened):

{
  "summary": {
    "input": { "mode": "search", "keywords": ["budget tracker"], "maxResults": 2, "fullDetail": false, "language": "en", "country": "us" },
    "requestedCount": 2,
    "foundCount": 2,
    "discoveredCount": 2,
    "successCount": 2,
    "failedCount": 0,
    "skippedCount": 0,
    "chargedCount": 2,
    "resultEvent": "app-listing-scraped",
    "stopReason": "completed",
    "errors": [],
    "totalDurationSeconds": 1
  }
}

requestedCount is the input ceiling, not a guaranteed result count. successCount counts saved app rows; chargedCount counts result events for those rows. stopReason can be completed, no_results, partial_failure, all_failed, or spending_limit. If every app fails, the run is marked failed but still writes OUTPUT.

Pricing

Pay $0.003 per delivered listing or $0.006 per delivered full detail. Each app gets only one result event: Listing or Detail. Failed, unavailable, empty, and skipped apps have no result charge. If you request 100 apps but only 10 are saved, result charges apply to those 10 rows.

Delivered results	Listing charges	Full-detail charges
10 apps	$0.03	$0.06
100 apps	$0.30	$0.60
1,000 apps	$3.00	$6.00

Apify also charges an Actor Start event at $0.00005 and platform usage. The Start event applies even if no app is delivered; at more than 1 GB of allocated memory, Apify may charge it more than once. The table shows result charges only. Check the Pricing tab for the complete current price before running the Actor.

Notes

• Data comes from public Google Play pages. Google may change rankings, fields, availability, and the number of results returned.
• Search can return loosely related apps for narrow phrases. Charts are snapshots for the selected country and time, not permanent rankings.
• installs is a public threshold such as 1,000,000+. minInstalls and maxInstalls are derived from that label; none is an exact download count. The Actor does not estimate app revenue.
• Language and country affect titles, descriptions, availability, and prices. language requests localized store content; it does not translate it.
• Full details require an additional request per app and can take longer than quick listings. One unavailable app does not prevent the others from being saved.
• The Actor respects the run's maximum charge. When that limit is reached, it stops and records spending_limit and skippedCount in OUTPUT.

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