This changelog highlights releases that materially changed Google Play Store Scraper for users. Dates use UTC; small internal refactors and routine maintenance are intentionally omitted.
Reliability
- Top Charts bounds simultaneous app-detail requests to reduce memory spikes while retaining full metadata and chart order.
- An unavailable or malformed chart app no longer discards other useful chart records; original ranks are preserved, and all-app failures still fail clearly.
Reliability
- Blank App ID form rows no longer prevent details inputs with search terms from using the existing search recovery; surrounding package-ID whitespace is ignored.
- Multi-term search skips redundant fallback detail requests for apps already returned, preserving output and reducing repeat work.
Reliability
- Default and empty search inputs now use the documented
whatsapp example instead of terminating before producing results.
Reliability
- Search inputs requesting more than the upstream-supported 250 apps now return useful results instead of finishing successfully with an empty dataset.
- Search, app-details, and review runs now fail clearly when every upstream request fails, while genuine empty results and partially successful batches remain valid.
- Review star filters now return only the requested rating, and valid sparse Top Paid charts return an honest empty dataset instead of a parser failure.
Reliability
- App details inputs that contain search terms but no app IDs now run as a search instead of failing; valid details, reviews, Top Charts, and search inputs are unchanged.
- Input labels now make the mode-specific App ID and search-term requirements clearer.
Features
- Added Top Charts discovery for ranked Top Free, Top Paid, and Top Grossing apps by Google Play category, country, and language.
- Ranked app records now include
chartRank, chartCollection, and chartCategory alongside the existing app metadata.
Changes
- Refreshed Store SEO copy for Google Play app, rating, review, install, screenshot, and developer-data use cases.
Reliability
- Restored Google Play search results when the upstream search library returns empty responses.
Reliability
- The Actor now respects Apify maximum charge per run and stops cleanly when the pay-per-event cap is reached.
Features
- Initial release for scraping Google Play app details, search results, ratings, reviews, installs, screenshots, pricing, and developer data.
