# App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (`blues_akg/app-store-scraper`) Actor

Scrape user reviews and app details from the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run: stars, review text, app version, date, developer replies, ratings, installs and price. One schema for iOS and Android. $0.80 per 1,000 rows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/blues\_akg/app-store-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Atakan Kerem GOCER](https://apify.com/blues_akg) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Business, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.80 / 1,000 row (app or review)s

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper

Track apps across both mobile stores in one run. Give it App Store links, Apple ids, Google Play links or Android package names — mixed freely — and get app details and user reviews in a single, identical schema.

- **Both stores, one table**: Apple and Android rows have the same columns
- **App details**: rating, number of ratings, price, category, content rating, release and update dates, description, icon, screenshots — plus, on Google Play, the install band, Google's exact install counter, the 1–5 star breakdown and the number of written reviews
- **Reviews**: stars, title, text, app version, date, helpful count and the developer's reply
- **Country-aware**: ratings, prices and reviews differ per store country, so you choose it
- **No personal data by default**: reviewer display names are left out unless you ask for them

### Who uses it

- **App teams** — watch what users say about you and your competitors, release by release
- **ASO and marketing** — compare ratings, categories, pricing and install counts
- **Investors and analysts** — measure traction across a portfolio of apps
- **Support and product** — mine complaints for the bugs that keep coming back

### Example output

An app row:

```json
{
  "type": "app",
  "store": "google_play",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "developer": "Spotify AB",
  "category": "MUSIC_AND_AUDIO",
  "rating": 4.346,
  "ratingCount": 36337000,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 3706453, "2": 1067673, "3": 1314350, "4": 3098810, "5": 27149714 },
  "reviewsTotal": 1853031,
  "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
  "installsExact": 3125337627,
  "price": 0.0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "inAppPurchases": "$6.99 - $203.88 per item",
  "containsAds": true,
  "released": "2014-05-27T00:00:00Z",
  "updated": "2026-09-18T00:00:00Z",
  "contentRating": "Teen",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
}
```

A review row:

```json
{
  "type": "review",
  "store": "app_store",
  "appId": "324684580",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "rating": 1,
  "title": "Cannot upgrade",
  "text": "I've been trying to upgrade my plan for the past week…",
  "version": "9.1.84",
  "date": "2026-09-19T13:39:47Z",
  "thumbsUp": 0,
  "developerReply": null
}
```

App rows and review rows share one dataset and are told apart by `type`. For a clean single-kind table, set `maxReviewsPerApp` to 0 (apps only) or turn `includeAppDetails` off (reviews only). In a mixed run the Console's **Apps** and **Reviews** tabs show each kind's columns; rows of the other kind appear blank there.

### Input

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
  "reviewSort": "newest",
  "country": "us"
}
```

| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| `apps` | Store URLs, Apple ids (`id324684580`) or package names (`com.spotify.music`). |
| `searchTerms` | Optional keywords; matching App Store apps are added to the run. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | 0 for details only. Otherwise reviews per app. |
| `reviewSort` | Newest, by rating, or most helpful. |
| `includeAppDetails` | Keep the app row next to its reviews, or reviews only. |
| `includeReviewerNames` | Off by default; see below. |
| `country`, `language` | Store country and language. |

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Row returned (app or review) | **$0.0008** |
| Actor start | $0.00005 per run |

**$0.80 per 1,000 rows.** Apps that cannot be found are listed separately and never charged. Set **Maximum cost per run** to cap your spend; the run stops cleanly at the limit.

### Notes and limits

Written plainly so you know what you are buying:

- **The App Store publishes at most 500 reviews per country** (10 pages of 50), and its feed sometimes leaves a page empty, so expect 450–500 for a big app. That is Apple's own limit, not the Actor's. To go deeper, run the same app across several countries. Google Play pages much deeper; runs of over a thousand reviews per app are tested.
- **Google Play no longer publishes the current app version** on the app page, so `version` is empty for Play app rows. Individual Play *reviews* do carry the version they were written on. App Store rows have the version.
- **`installs`, `installsExact`, `ratingHistogram`, `reviewsTotal`, `inAppPurchases` and `containsAds` are Google Play only**; Apple does not publish them. `ratingCount` is available on both. Fields a store does not publish are `null`, never guessed.
- **Reviewer names are omitted by default.** Reviews are public, but display names are personal data under GDPR and KVKK. Turn `includeReviewerNames` on only if you have a lawful reason to process them; everything else in the review is returned either way.
- **Country matters.** An app can exist in one store country and not another; a missing app is reported with the country in the reason.
- Review text is returned as the user wrote it, including other languages and emoji.

### FAQ

**Can I monitor reviews on a schedule?**
Yes. Add the Actor to a [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules), sort by newest and cap the review count; then compare `reviewId` between runs to find what is new.

**Can I compare an app against its competitors?**
Put all of them in `apps` in the same run. Every row carries `store`, `appId` and `appTitle`, so grouping in a spreadsheet is straightforward.

**Why did an app return no reviews?**
Either it genuinely has none in that country, or it is very new. Try another `country`.

**Something is wrong or missing.**
Open an issue on the Issues tab with the app URL.

# Actor input Schema

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

One per line. App Store URLs or ids (id324684580), Google Play URLs or Android package names (com.spotify.music). Both stores can be mixed in one run.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Optional. Keywords to look up on the App Store; the matching apps are added to the run. Apple only.

## `maxAppsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

How many App Store search results to take for each keyword.

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

0 means app details only. The App Store publishes at most 500 reviews per country; Google Play goes far deeper.

## `reviewSort` (type: `string`):

Which reviews to take first.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Keep the app's own row alongside its reviews. Turn off for a reviews-only table.

## `includeReviewerNames` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default so the output holds no personal data. Turn on only if you have a lawful reason to process reviewers' names.

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

Two-letter store country, for example us, gb, de, tr. Ratings, price and reviews differ per country.

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

Two-letter language code for the store pages, for example en, de, tr.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Lower this if a store starts rate limiting.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional for small runs. For large review pulls, rotating proxies avoid rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 10,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 0,
  "reviewSort": "newest",
  "includeAppDetails": true,
  "includeReviewerNames": false,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per app with ratings, installs, price and category, plus one row per review with stars, text, version, date and developer reply.

## `failedInputs` (type: `string`):

Inputs that were unrecognised or unavailable in the chosen country, with the reason. These are not charged.

# 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": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
        "com.spotify.music"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("blues_akg/app-store-scraper").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": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
        "com.spotify.music",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("blues_akg/app-store-scraper").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": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call blues_akg/app-store-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,blues_akg/app-store-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

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/DQhxjDLWwQoWTgPTM/builds/9FxOQkgoBQKhHZW3w/openapi.json