# Google Play Apps & Reviews Scraper — No API Key (`fortunate_sourdough/google-play-app-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Play app details and user reviews without login or API keys: ratings, install counts, full review text with scores and dates. Pay per record.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/fortunate\_sourdough/google-play-app-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [phi](https://apify.com/fortunate_sourdough) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Play Apps & Reviews Scraper

Scrape **Google Play app details and user reviews** without an API key, login, or quota management: ratings, install counts, categories, and full review text with scores, dates, thumbs-up counts and developer replies.

### Why this actor

- 🔓 **No API key** — uses Google Play's public endpoints, no Cloud project, no quotas
- 📱 **ASO-ready** — track ratings, installs and review sentiment for any app or competitor set
- 💬 **Full review text** — real user voices with scores, dates and dev replies (churn/goldmine data)
- 🧹 **Structured output** — one record type for apps, one for reviews, easy to split
- 💰 **Pay-per-record** — charged only for records returned

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `appIds` | array | `["com.whatsapp"]` | Package names to scrape |
| `numReviews` | integer | `50` | Reviews per app (0 = details only, max 1000) |
| `lang` | string | `en` | Store language |
| `country` | string | `us` | Store country |

#### Example

```json
{
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "com.amazon.mp3"],
  "numReviews": 200,
  "lang": "en",
  "country": "us"
}
```

### Example output

```json
{ "recordType": "app", "appId": "com.whatsapp", "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "score": 4.62, "ratings": 190000000, "installs": "10,000,000,000+", "free": true }
```

```json
{ "recordType": "review", "appId": "com.whatsapp", "score": 1,
  "text": "Please help me, my account...", "date": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "thumbsUp": 0, "replyText": null }
```

### Use cases

- **ASO monitoring** — watch your app and competitors' ratings/review velocity over time
- **Churn analysis** — 1-star review mining, dev-reply coverage tracking
- **Market research** — install and pricing landscapes per category
- **AI pipelines** — review streams for sentiment and feature-request extraction

### Notes

- Invalid package names (404) are skipped with a warning; valid apps still return.
- Reviews come in the selected `lang`/`country` store; switch languages for global coverage.
- Google occasionally rotates its internal endpoints; the actor uses the well-maintained scraper library to stay current.

# Actor input Schema

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Package names, e.g. \["com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music"].

## `numReviews` (type: `integer`):

Reviews to fetch per app (0 = app details only, max 1000).

## `lang` (type: `string`):

ISO 639-1 language code for store content, e.g. "en".

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for store region, e.g. "us".

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIds": [
    "com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "numReviews": 50,
  "lang": "en",
  "country": "us"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "appIds": [
        "com.whatsapp"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("fortunate_sourdough/google-play-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 = { "appIds": ["com.whatsapp"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("fortunate_sourdough/google-play-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 '{
  "appIds": [
    "com.whatsapp"
  ]
}' |
apify call fortunate_sourdough/google-play-app-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,fortunate_sourdough/google-play-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/KXcqsULdSe0EWNlAo/builds/9fDRmsg9B8Am8gnOo/openapi.json