Google Play Store ASO Scraper

Lightning-fast Android app scraper that extracts keyword rankings, app metadata, and competitor insights from the Google Play Store with zero browser overhead. Output is perfectly normalized to match iOS data for seamless cross-platform reporting.

How to scrape Google Play Store rankings?

Scraping the Google Play Store for mobile app rankings has traditionally required slow headless browsers that are expensive, unreliable, and break frequently. This actor takes a completely different approach.

Instead of rendering pages in a browser, this Google Play search scraper uses the lightweight google-play-scraper package to directly query Google Play's internal routing — achieving results 10x faster and at a fraction of the cost. No Playwright, no Puppeteer, no Cheerio. Just pure, blazing-fast HTTP requests.

Android App Store Optimization (ASO) API

This actor is the ultimate ASO tool for Android developers and marketers. Whether you're tracking your own app's keyword positions or conducting competitor app analysis, this scraper delivers instant results.

Key Features

• Multi-Keyword Search: Pass an array of keywords and scrape all of them in a single run.
• Top 50 Rankings: For each keyword, extract the top 50 apps with their exact ranking position.
• Normalized Cross-Platform Output: The output JSON schema is deliberately designed to match our iOS App Store scraper. Fields like keyword, platform, appId, title, developer, rank, price, and averageRating are consistent across both, enabling seamless cross-platform ASO reporting.
• Pay-Per-Event Billing: You only pay for the results you get — $0.0015 per app result.

Why Choose This Over Other Scrapers?

Unlike other scrapers that spin up slow headless browsers (Puppeteer/Playwright) and frequently fail due to anti-bot measures, this actor uses lightweight HTTP requests with zero browser overhead. This means:

• ⚡ 10x faster execution
• 💰 Incredibly cheap compute costs
• ✅ 100% reliable — no browser crashes or timeout failures
• 📊 Cross-platform ready — normalized output works directly with iOS data

Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description
keywords	String Array	Array of search keywords (e.g. ["fitness", "meditation"])
country_code	String (Enum)	Country for the search (default: "us")
language	String	Language code for search results (default: "en")

Output Format

{
  "keyword": "fitness",
  "platform": "android",
  "appId": "com.example.fitness",
  "title": "Example Fitness App",
  "developer": "Example Dev Studio",
  "rank": 1,
  "price": 0,
  "averageRating": 4.6,
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.example.fitness",
  "country_code": "us"
}

Built on the Apify platform for maximum efficiency. The perfect complement to our Apple App Store ASO Scraper.