# App Reviews for iOS and Android (`appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android`) Actor

Collect recent public reviews from the Apple App Store and Google Play. Each row has the text, rating, date, version, and country. Reviewer names and avatars are not saved.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android.md
- **Developed by:** [Ross AI](https://apify.com/appreciative_duct) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.

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

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# README

## App Reviews for iOS and Android

This actor collects recent public reviews for Apple App Store and Google Play apps. Each review row has the store, app id, country, star rating, review text, review title when the store provides one, date, and app version.

Reviewer names, avatars, profile links, and account ids are not saved. The dataset schema does not have those fields, and the parser never copies them out of the store payload.

An app that returns nothing, or that the store refuses, is one error row. The other apps still finish.

### Input

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "324684580",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 20
}
```

| Field | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `apps` | required | 1 to 40 numeric App Store ids, Play package names, or store URLs. |
| `country` | `us` | Two-letter storefront, such as `us` or `gb`. |
| `language` | `en` | Language sent to Google Play. The Apple feed follows the country. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | `20` | Newest reviews kept per app. 1 to 50. |

A numeric id is treated as iOS. A dotted package name is treated as Android.

### Output

```json
{
  "store": "android",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "rating": 5,
  "title": null,
  "text": "Playback is steady.",
  "date": "2023-11-14T22:13:20.000Z",
  "version": "9.1.92.3058",
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null
}
```

Play reviews have no separate title, so `title` is null. The `SUMMARY` record counts apps that returned at least one review.

### Proxy

The actor asks for the included datacenter proxy group `BUYPROXIES94952`. It does not use residential, Google SERP, or unblocker proxies. If that group is unavailable, it continues without a proxy. Store URLs you paste are parsed for an id only. They are not fetched as web pages.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event code is in the actor and is not enabled. The event name is exactly `review` at $0.0003 per saved review, with no start fee. Error rows are not billed. Until monetization is turned on, runs are not charged for results. See `PRICING.md`.

# Actor input Schema

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

Up to 40 apps. A numeric id or an apps.apple.com URL is iOS. A package name or a play.google.com URL is Android.

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

Two-letter store country, such as us or gb.

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

Play Store language, such as en. The App Store feed follows the country.

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

Newest reviews kept for each app.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

Store, app, rating, text, date, version, and country.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Apps that returned reviews, and how many reviews were saved.

# 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": [
        "324684580",
        "com.spotify.music"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android").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": [
        "324684580",
        "com.spotify.music",
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android").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": [
    "324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 20
}' |
apify call appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,appreciative_duct/app-reviews-ios-android"
        }
    }
}
```

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/zL68RGntAbnExWY8H/builds/p0id2kBJgfrd7g8Lv/openapi.json