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

Scrape user reviews from the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run: ratings, text, version, country, votes and developer replies in a single unified format.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/chorelet/app-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ilia Muravev](https://apify.com/chorelet) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 1,000 reviews

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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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

Get user reviews from **both** app stores in one run and one format. Paste App Store URLs/IDs and Google Play package names, pick countries, and download ratings, review text, version, helpful votes and developer replies as JSON, CSV or Excel — or pull them via API into your own tools.

### What you get

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `platform` | `apple` or `google` |
| `appId`, `appName`, `appUrl` | App identifier, resolved name and store page |
| `country`, `language` | Storefront country; language for Google Play |
| `reviewId`, `author`, `rating`, `title`, `text`, `date`, `version` | The review itself |
| `helpfulVotes` | Upvotes ("helpful") |
| `developerReply` | `{ date, text }` when the developer answered (Google Play) |
| `url` | Google Play: app page with the review highlighted; App Store: the app's "See all reviews" page (Apple has no per-review links) |

### Input

- **Apps** — any mix of `https://apps.apple.com/us/app/…/id310633997`, `310633997`, `https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp`, `com.whatsapp`.
- **Countries** — storefronts to read, e.g. `us, gb, de`. Every app is fetched for every country (an App Store URL that contains a country is read for that country only).
- **Max reviews per app and country**, **Sort** (newest / most helpful), **Language** (Google Play).

### Limits and notes

- Apple's public review feed returns at most **500 most recent reviews per country**. Google Play has no hard cap; large pulls simply take longer.
- No login, no proxies, no cookies — public endpoints only.
- Reviews are public data; the Actor stores nothing beyond the dataset of your run.

### Pricing

Pay per review, nothing else — you only pay for what lands in the dataset. Runs that return zero reviews cost nothing.

### Typical uses

App-store review monitoring for ASO and support teams, competitor analysis, feeding reviews into an LLM for sentiment/feature-request extraction, dashboards in Sheets/Looker via the Apify API or integrations (Zapier, Make, n8n).

# Actor input Schema

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

App Store and/or Google Play apps. Accepts store URLs, App Store numeric IDs (e.g. 310633997) and Google Play package names (e.g. com.whatsapp).

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter country codes of the storefronts to read (e.g. us, gb, de). Reviews are fetched for every app × country.

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

Language code for Google Play reviews (e.g. en, de, es).

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

Upper limit of reviews to collect for each app in each country. Apple's public feed exposes at most 500 most recent reviews per country; Google Play has no hard cap.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

Newest first or most helpful first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
    "com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "sort": "newest"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All scraped reviews as JSON items of the default dataset.

## `reviewsCsv` (type: `string`):

The same dataset exported as CSV for spreadsheets.

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

Number of reviews fetched per app and country.

# 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/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
        "com.whatsapp"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("chorelet/app-reviews-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/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
        "com.whatsapp",
    ],
    "countries": ["us"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("chorelet/app-reviews-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/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997",
    "com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ]
}' |
apify call chorelet/app-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,chorelet/app-reviews-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/Hpm10yqO7BVBhBsik/builds/86MidPc6wCBcJadXW/openapi.json