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

Reviews and app details from Apple App Store and Google Play in one run. Paste app URLs, IDs or just app names. Multiple countries, star-rating and date filters, developer replies included. Clean output for sentiment analysis and ASO.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/datafetch\_labs/app-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [DataFetch Labs](https://apify.com/datafetch_labs) (community)
- **Categories:** Open source
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.25 / 1,000 review scrapeds

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.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
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 + App Details

**Scrape reviews and app details from both the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run.** Paste app URLs, IDs, or just app **names**. Collect reviews from several countries, filter by star rating and date, and get developer replies. Everything comes back in **one clean format**, ready for sentiment analysis, ASO, competitor research or feeding an LLM.

- ✅ **Both stores, one schema**: `store: "apple" | "google"`, same fields for both.
- ✅ **Any input**: Play Store URL or package name, App Store URL or numeric ID, or an app name (searched automatically).
- ✅ **Many countries per run** (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `in`, `br`...).
- ✅ **Filters**: min/max stars (e.g. only 1–2★ complaints) and "reviews since" date.
- ✅ **App details included**: rating, ratings count, histogram, installs, version, price, genre, developer, description.
- ✅ **Privacy-friendly by default**: reviewer names are left out unless you turn them on.
- 💲 **$0.25 per 1,000 reviews**, and $0.002 per app details record.

### Use cases

- **Product and UX teams**: find the top complaints after each release (filter to 1–2★ since the release date).
- **Competitor research**: compare ratings, feature requests and pain points across competing apps and countries.
- **ASO (App Store Optimization)**: mine the words users actually use and track ratings over time.
- **AI and analytics**: feed thousands of reviews to an LLM for sentiment, topics and summaries.
- **Agencies**: monitor client apps' reviews weekly with a schedule.

### Input example

```json
{
    "apps": [
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
        "Duolingo"
    ],
    "countries": ["us", "gb"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
    "maxRating": 2,
    "reviewsSince": "2026-09-01"
}
```

### Output

**Review** (`type: "review"`):

```json
{
    "type": "review",
    "appId": "324684580",
    "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
    "store": "apple",
    "reviewId": "14599714132",
    "rating": 5,
    "title": "Love this app",
    "text": "If you spend the extra money on the premium this app is good...",
    "date": "2026-09-27T14:17:41.000Z",
    "appVersion": "9.1.86",
    "thumbsUp": 0,
    "replyText": null,
    "replyDate": null,
    "url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id324684580?see-all=reviews",
    "country": "us",
    "language": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-28T22:23:58.335Z"
}
```

**App details** (`type: "app"`, one per app and country): `title`, `developer`, `rating`, `ratingsCount`, `histogram` (Google Play), `installs` (Google Play), `price`, `genre`, `version`, `updatedAt`, `description`, `icon`, `url` and more.

Use the `type` field to split reviews from app records, or turn off *Include app details* to get reviews only.

### Limits to know

- **Apple App Store**: Apple's public review feed gives up to about **500 of the most recent reviews per country**. Add more countries to get more reviews.
- **Google Play**: no practical limit. Tens of thousands of reviews per app are fine.

### Pricing

- **$0.00025 per review ($0.25 per 1,000)**
- **$0.002 per app details record**

Filters run before billing: reviews you filter out are free. Set a *maximum cost per run* and the Actor stops cleanly when it's reached.

# Actor input Schema

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

Google Play URLs or package names (com.spotify.music), App Store URLs or numeric IDs (324684580), or plain app names ("Duolingo"), which are searched in the stores. One per line.

## `storeForNames` (type: `string`):

Only used for plain app names.

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

Two-letter country codes (us, gb, de, fr, in, br...). Reviews are collected separately for each country.

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

Review language for Google Play, e.g. en, es, de. App Store reviews come in the country's languages.

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

0 = as many as available. Apple's public feed provides up to ~500 recent reviews per country; Google Play has no practical limit.

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

Order in which reviews are collected.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Keep reviews with at least this many stars.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Keep reviews with at most this many stars. Set to 2 to collect only complaints.

## `reviewsSince` (type: `string`):

Keep only reviews written on or after this date.

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

Adds one item per app and country with rating, ratings count, installs, version, genre, price, developer and description (type = "app").

## `includeUserDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Adds reviewer display name and avatar. Off by default to minimize personal data.

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

How many app/country combinations to process at once.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ],
  "storeForNames": "both",
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sort": "newest",
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "includeAppDetails": true,
  "includeUserDetails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `report` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("datafetch_labs/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://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
    ],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("datafetch_labs/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://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}' |
apify call datafetch_labs/app-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,datafetch_labs/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/N9Xtd8hL41gKyPbRy/builds/gJ8n9QyaFgrDKTY0M/openapi.json