Google Play Store Scraper

Scrape Google Play Store at scale: search apps by keyword, pull ranked Top Charts, get full Android app details, export up to 100,000 reviews per app, and find similar apps and developer portfolios. No API key or login required.

What does Google Play Scraper do?

Google Play Scraper extracts structured data from Google Play in six modes:

• 🔍 Search — Find apps by keyword with their search position (searchRank) and full app details on every row, for ASO and keyword research. Google Play shows at most 30 apps per search term.
• 📈 Top Charts — Discover ranked Top Free, Top Paid, or Top Grossing apps by category and locale, with full app metadata. Google Play lists at most 200 apps per chart.
• 📱 Details — Get full app information for package IDs or Google Play URLs: 47+ fields including installs, ratings histogram, screenshots, developer contact info, changelog, and more.
• ⭐ Reviews — Export up to 100,000 reviews per app with star ratings, text, dates, developer replies, thumbs-up counts, and app version. Filter by star rating or collect only reviews since a date.
• 🧭 Similar apps — Get the apps Google Play lists as similar to a given app, with full details, to map competitors.
• 👤 Developer apps — Get all apps from a developer, with full details and contact data.

Results are flat JSON ready for analysis, monitoring, or your own systems.

Who is it for?

Mobile app developers and indie developers

• Monitor competitor app ratings and review sentiment to identify gaps in their UX
• Track recent changes in competitor changelogs to anticipate feature launches
• Compare install ranges and ratings to benchmark your app in the category

Market researchers and analysts

• Analyze app category trends and market saturation across multiple countries
• Build datasets of app ecosystems for academic or industry research
• Track developer portfolios and multi-app strategies from company data

Product managers and ASO specialists

• Study top-ranking apps in your target keyword to understand what drives downloads
• Collect user reviews from competitors to identify unmet needs and feature requests
• Monitor your own app's reviews across regions for proactive customer support

Investors and due-diligence teams

• Evaluate mobile app market positioning before investing or acquiring
• Track install growth over time by comparing scraped snapshots
• Extract developer contact info (email, website, legal entity name) for outreach

Why use Google Play Scraper?

• ✅ No API key required — scrapes public Play Store pages directly, no Google credentials needed
• ✅ Six modes in one tool — search, Top Charts, details, reviews, similar apps, and developer apps without switching actors
• ✅ 47+ fields per app in every app mode — search results include installs, developer email and rating histogram, with no second step
• ✅ Up to 100,000 reviews per app — saved page by page, so a timeout keeps what was already collected
• ✅ Incremental review monitoring — reviewsSince stops at your cutoff, so a scheduled run pays only for new reviews
• ✅ Paste IDs or URLs — package IDs and Google Play links both work
• ✅ Localization support — all Google Play countries and languages supported
• ✅ Flat, clean output — no nested objects; every field is directly accessible in spreadsheets
• ✅ Pay-per-result — only pay for data you extract; a bad input or an empty result costs nothing
• ✅ Works with Apify's API, scheduling, and 5,000+ integrations — automate recurring scrapes

What data can you extract?

App fields (47+ total)

Category	Fields
🆔 Identity	appId, title, summary, genre, genreId, categoriesNames, contentRating
📈 Rank and source	searchTerm, searchRank (search), chartRank, chartCollection, chartCategory (Top Charts), sourceAppId (similar apps), sourceDeveloperId (developer apps)
👤 Developer	developer, developerId, developerEmail, developerWebsite, developerLegalName, developerLegalEmail, developerLegalAddress, developerLegalPhoneNumber
⭐ Ratings	score, scoreText, ratings, reviews, histogram1star–histogram5star
📈 Popularity	installs, minInstalls, maxInstalls
💰 Pricing	price, priceText, free, currency, originalPrice, offersIAP, IAPRange
🛠 Technical	androidVersion, androidVersionText, version, updatedAt, released
🖼 Media	icon, headerImage, screenshots, video, videoImage
📝 Content	description, descriptionHTML, recentChanges, privacyPolicy
⚙️ Flags	free, available, adSupported, containsAds, preregister, isAvailableInPlayPass

Review fields

Field	Description
reviewId	Unique review identifier
userName, userImage	Reviewer name and profile picture URL
score, scoreText	Star rating (1–5)
text	Full review text
date	ISO timestamp of the review
replyText, replyDate	Developer reply (if any)
thumbsUp	Number of helpful votes
version	App version installed when reviewed
criteriaJson	Structured subcriteria ratings (JSON string)

How much does it cost to scrape Google Play Store?

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for the data you extract:

The start fee is charged once, with the first result. A run with a bad input or no results costs nothing.

For broad crawls (many terms, app IDs or reviews), set Maximum charge per run before launch. The run saves only the rows that fit the limit and says so in its final status.

Apify plan	Actor start	Per app detail	Per review
Free	$0.001	$0.0007	$0.00011
Bronze	$0.001	$0.0007	$0.00011
Silver	$0.001	$0.00063	$0.000099
Gold	$0.001	$0.00056	$0.000088
Platinum	$0.001	$0.00056	$0.000088
Diamond	$0.001	$0.00056	$0.000088

Calculated cost examples at Free-tier pricing (not event unit prices)

Use case	Cost breakdown	Total
Search 2 terms, 25 apps each	$0.001 + 50 × $0.0007	$0.036
Details for 20 specific apps	$0.001 + 20 × $0.0007	$0.015
200 reviews for 1 app	$0.001 + 200 × $0.00011	$0.023
100 apps + 50 reviews each	$0.001 + 100 × $0.0007 + 5,000 × $0.00011	$0.621

How to scrape Google Play Store

1. Open Google Play Scraper on Apify Store
2. Click Try for free
3. Select a mode:
   • Search apps — enter keywords like "fitness tracker" or "photo editor"
   • Top Charts — choose Top Free, Top Paid, or Top Grossing and an optional category
   • App details — paste app IDs like com.whatsapp or Google Play URLs
   • App reviews — paste app IDs or URLs and choose sort order, star filter or a start date
   • Similar apps — paste app IDs or URLs
   • Developer apps — paste developer names, numeric IDs or developer URLs
4. Set Country and Language if you need localized results
5. Set Max results (start with 10 to preview data cheaply)
6. Click Start and wait for the run to complete
7. Download data as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or connect via the API

Finding an app's ID

The app ID is the package name visible in the Google Play URL:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                              App ID: com.whatsapp

Common examples:

• WhatsApp → com.whatsapp
• Spotify → com.spotify.music
• Instagram → com.instagram.android
• TikTok → com.zhiliaoapp.musically
• Gmail → com.google.android.gm

Example inputs

Search mode:

{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchTerms": ["fitness tracker", "workout app"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "us"
}

Top Charts mode — top 10 free US apps:

{
    "mode": "topCharts",
    "chartCollection": "top-free",
    "chartCategory": "APPLICATION",
    "maxResults": 10,
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en"
}

Use a Google Play category identifier such as GAME, PRODUCTIVITY, FINANCE, or HEALTH_AND_FITNESS. Omit chartCategory to use APPLICATION (all apps).

Details mode:

{
    "mode": "details",
    "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "com.telegram.messenger", "org.thoughtcrime.securesms"],
    "country": "us"
}

Reviews mode — 1-star reviews for a specific app:

{
    "mode": "reviews",
    "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
    "maxResults": 100,
    "reviewSort": "newest",
    "reviewScore": 1
}

Reviews mode — only new reviews, for a daily or weekly schedule:

{
    "mode": "reviews",
    "appIds": ["https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"],
    "maxResults": 5000,
    "reviewsSince": "7 days"
}

Similar apps mode — map an app's competitors:

{
    "mode": "similar",
    "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
    "maxResults": 30
}

Developer apps mode:

{
    "mode": "developer",
    "developerIds": ["Spotify AB"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
mode	string	Yes	search	Scraping mode: search, topCharts, details, reviews, similar, or developer
searchTerms	string[]	No	["whatsapp"]	Keywords to search for apps. Search mode uses the default term when omitted. Also recovers a mixed details input when no app IDs were supplied.
appIds	string[]	In details/reviews/similar mode	—	Google Play package IDs or app URLs. Surrounding whitespace and blank form rows are ignored. Details mode requires nonblank IDs unless searchTerms are supplied instead; reviews and similar always require them.
developerIds	string[]	In developer mode	—	Developer names, numeric developer IDs or Google Play developer URLs
chartCollection	string	In Top Charts mode	top-free	top-free, top-paid, or top-grossing
chartCategory	string	No	APPLICATION	Google Play category identifier such as GAME or FINANCE
maxResults	integer	No	50	Max results per term, chart, app or developer (1–100,000). Google Play lists at most 30 apps per search and 200 per chart
country	string	No	us	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
language	string	No	en	ISO 639-1 language code
reviewSort	string	No	newest	Review sort: newest, rating, relevant
reviewScore	integer	No	all	Filter reviews by star rating (1–5)
reviewsSince	string	No	—	Only reviews from this date or age onward: 2026-10-01 or 7 days. Always uses newest-first order

Output examples

Ranked app (Top Charts mode)

Search, Top Charts, similar apps and developer apps all return the same rich app object as details mode, plus their rank or source fields. Detail requests are limited to two at a time, and completed rows are saved before later requests so a timeout keeps them. Unavailable apps are skipped; chart and search rows keep their original ranks, so gaps are possible. If every app-detail request fails, the run fails clearly rather than returning an unexplained empty result:

{
    "appId": "com.example.app",
    "title": "Example App",
    "developer": "Example Developer",
    "score": 4.7,
    "installs": "10,000,000+",
    "chartRank": 1,
    "chartCollection": "top-free",
    "chartCategory": "APPLICATION"
}

App detail (details mode)

{
    "appId": "com.whatsapp",
    "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "summary": "Simple. Reliable. Private.",
    "description": "WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app...",
    "developer": "WhatsApp LLC",
    "developerEmail": "android@support.whatsapp.com",
    "developerWebsite": "http://www.whatsapp.com/",
    "developerLegalName": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
    "score": 4.71,
    "scoreText": "4.7",
    "ratings": 231969073,
    "reviews": 1975001,
    "histogram1star": 6819433,
    "histogram5star": 196283315,
    "installs": "10,000,000,000+",
    "minInstalls": 10000000000,
    "price": 0,
    "priceText": "Free",
    "free": true,
    "offersIAP": true,
    "IAPRange": "USD 0.40 - USD 199.99 per item",
    "androidVersion": "VARY",
    "contentRating": "Everyone",
    "genre": "Communication",
    "genreId": "COMMUNICATION",
    "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/..."],
    "released": "Oct 18, 2010",
    "updatedAt": "2026-03-24T08:33:50.000Z",
    "version": "VARY",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en&gl=us",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Review (reviews mode)

{
    "reviewId": "71fadf82-c336-480e-8070-73be97ab7e30",
    "appId": "com.spotify.music",
    "userName": "Jane D.",
    "userImage": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "score": 4,
    "scoreText": "4",
    "text": "Great app but the ads are too frequent on the free tier",
    "date": "2026-03-24T12:43:39.342Z",
    "replyText": null,
    "replyDate": null,
    "thumbsUp": 7,
    "version": "9.1.32.2083",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Tips for best results

• 🚀 Start with maxResults: 10 to verify your input is correct before running large extractions
• 🔍 Use several search terms for a wider list: Google Play shows at most 30 apps per term, and repeated apps are returned once. If you select details with search terms but no app IDs, the Actor runs a search instead.
• 📏 Read the final status: it says how many results were delivered against your limit and why the run stopped, for example Got 30 of 100 apps.
• 🌍 Set country + language together for accurate localization — country: "de", language: "de" gives German Play Store results
• ⭐ Filter reviews by score: set reviewScore: 1 to collect only 1-star reviews for product insight research
• 🗓 Monitor new reviews: schedule a run with reviewsSince: "7 days" so you collect only recent reviews
• ⏰ Schedule recurring runs via Apify's scheduler to track rating changes over time — compare snapshots monthly
• 📊 Export to Google Sheets for easy filtering and charting of app metrics

Integrations

Google Play Scraper → Google Sheets Connect via Apify's Google Sheets integration to automatically append new app data to a spreadsheet. Use this to maintain a live competitive tracking dashboard: schedule daily runs and use the "append" mode to log how ratings and install ranges change over time.

Google Play Scraper → Slack / Discord alerts Use webhooks to notify your team when a monitored app's rating drops below a threshold. Set up a recurring run on your own app's reviews with reviewScore: 1 and trigger a Slack message when new 1-star reviews arrive.

Google Play Scraper → Make / Zapier workflows Trigger a Make scenario when a run finishes to push extracted reviews into Airtable, Notion, or your CRM. Useful for customer success teams that want to track public feedback alongside internal support tickets.

Google Play Scraper → Custom analytics pipeline Use the Apify API to pull extracted data into BigQuery, Snowflake, or your data warehouse for long-term trend analysis. Combine with Apple App Store Scraper data for a cross-platform view of the mobile app landscape.

Scheduled monitoring Set up a recurring Apify schedule (daily, weekly) with mode: "details" on a fixed list of competitor app IDs. Compare score, ratings, and recentChanges across runs to detect when competitors ship major updates or receive rating spikes.

API usage

Node.js

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('automation-lab/google-play-scraper').call({
    mode: 'details',
    appIds: ['com.whatsapp', 'com.spotify.music'],
    country: 'us',
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("automation-lab/google-play-scraper").call(run_input={
    "mode": "reviews",
    "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
    "maxResults": 100,
    "reviewSort": "newest",
    "reviewScore": 1,
})

items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
for item in items:
    print(f"{item['userName']}: {item['score']}/5 — {item['text'][:80]}")

cURL

curl -s "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/automation-lab~google-play-scraper/runs" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "mode": "search",
    "searchTerms": ["fitness tracker"],
    "maxResults": 20,
    "country": "us"
  }'

Use with AI agents via MCP

Google Play Store Scraper is available as a tool for AI assistants that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Add the Apify MCP server to your AI client — this gives you access to all Apify actors, including this one:

Setup for Claude Code

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/google-play-scraper"

Setup for Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code

Add this to your MCP config file:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/google-play-scraper"
        }
    }
}

Example prompts

• "Search Google Play for the top 20 meditation apps and export to CSV"
• "Get all 1-star reviews for com.spotify.music from the last week"
• "Scrape full details for these 5 competitor apps and compare their install counts"

Learn more in the Apify MCP documentation.

Diagnostic privacy

Failed operations send sanitized diagnostic input, exceptions, and Actor/build/run IDs to our private GlitchTip service for repair. Search, chart, and review runs also send bounded progress diagnostics (request phase, elapsed time, memory, and numeric work/output counts) to distinguish in-flight upstream stalls from accumulated batch work. Review counters distinguish pages requested/completed, candidates scanned, score matches and emitted rows without changing sort or filtering. Chart counters distinguish discovered apps, attempted/completed/failed details, pending requests and saved rows, including pending output-write and charging phases. These progress fields contain no search terms, app identifiers, pagination tokens, review text, or response bodies. Secret fields and URL query strings are removed, and reports are retained for 30 days. Diagnostic reports do not change result datasets or billing events.

Legality

Yes. Scraping publicly available data is protected under the HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn ruling in the US. Google Play Store app listings are publicly accessible to anyone without login. This actor only accesses data that any browser visitor can see — it does not scrape authenticated content, bypass paywalls, or access private data.

As with any scraping tool:

• Only scrape publicly available information
• Do not store or process personal data beyond what your use case requires
• If handling EU user review data, ensure compliance with GDPR
• Review Google's Terms of Service for your specific use case

For commercial use cases involving personal data (e.g., user reviews), consult legal counsel to ensure compliance with applicable privacy laws in your jurisdiction.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. The actor scrapes publicly available Google Play Store pages without any authentication.

How many apps can I scrape in one run? Google Play shows at most 30 apps per search term and 200 per chart. Reviews go up to 100,000 per app. Use many terms or app IDs to scale; maxResults controls the limit per term, chart, app or developer. Very large jobs may need a longer run timeout.

Why did search return 30 apps when I asked for 100? Google Play itself shows at most 30 apps per search term, or fewer for narrow terms. Add related search terms to widen the list.

Why are some fields null? Google Play doesn't publish every field for every app, for example a video or discount. Search, chart, similar and developer rows have the same fields as details mode. The size field and the review title field are always null because Google Play no longer publishes them on the web.

Can I filter reviews by star rating? Yes — set reviewScore to a number between 1 and 5 to return only reviews with that exact rating. This is useful for extracting only negative (1-star) or positive (5-star) reviews.

The scraper returns empty results — what should I check? Verify your app IDs are correct (the package name from the Play Store URL, e.g., com.whatsapp). Check that the app is available in the country you specified. For search mode, try broader keywords if specific terms return no results.

Reviews are fewer than expected — why? Google Play limits the number of reviews accessible through public pages. Some apps with few reviews in a specific country/language combination will return fewer results. Try adjusting the country and language parameters or removing the reviewScore filter.

How does this compare to the official Google Play Developer API? The official API requires a developer account and only returns data for apps you own. This scraper accesses public Play Store pages and returns data for any app — no account or approval needed. It's the only option for competitive research and market analysis.

How fast is the actor? Measured on Apify: a search of 30 apps takes about 10 seconds, 1,000 reviews about 15 seconds, and a chart of 200 apps about 80 seconds.

Can I collect only new reviews? Yes. Set reviewsSince to a date or an age such as 7 days. The run stops paging at that point, so scheduled runs pay only for recent reviews.

Can I paste Google Play links? Yes. appIds and developerIds accept Google Play URLs as well as IDs.

Related scrapers

• Apple App Store Scraper — scrape iOS app details, ratings, and reviews from the Apple App Store
• Trustpilot Reviews Scraper — company reputation reviews
• G2 Reviews & Products Scraper — B2B software reviews and product comparisons

Use with AI agents via x402 (no Apify account)

Agent workflows can run this actor through Apify MCP without an Apify account when the MCP client uses a funded x402 wallet. Use the actor-specific MCP endpoint:

https://mcp.apify.com?tools=automation-lab/google-play-scraper&payment=x402

This keeps existing Apify MCP/API usage unchanged; x402 only changes payment/authentication for clients that support it. Learn more in Apify's x402 integration docs.