Google Play Scraper: Apps, Reviews, Charts & Exact Installs

Get Google Play apps from app IDs, top charts, search, "Similar apps" or a developer's catalogue, with Google's exact install count, installs gained since the last run, rating and 1–5 star histogram, price and in-app purchase range, version and release notes, developer email, phone, website and address, permissions and data-safety labels wherever Google Play shows them for the app. Switch on reviews and set maxReviewsPerApp to 0 to get every review Google Play shows for an app (read 1,000 per request; 200 per app by default), with developer replies, app version and star, device and date filters.

• 📈 Exact installs, and what changed since your last run: Google Play pages carry the exact install counter behind the "100M+" label. Each run compares every app with your previous run: installsGained, installsPerDay, rating, version and chart-rank changes. Google moves the counter in steps, within a day for most big apps and less often for smaller ones (measured below), so read install growth over a week.
• 🏆 Top charts at scale: Top free, Top grossing and Top paid for any of 53 categories in any of 52 countries (up to 20 countries per run), up to 200 apps per chart, in one run. Google Play has no chart for some pairs: 14 of the 159 chart and category pairs in the US were empty, all Top paid (run VfmPT2vO7RGO5ejr3).
• 📇 Developer contacts: email, website, phone, address and legal name as Google Play publishes them.
• ⭐ Reviews: newest, most relevant or by rating; star, device and period filters; replies with dates.

No Google account, no API key, no browser.

Quick start (API)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~google-play-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "com.duolingo"]}'

What you get

One dataset, three row types (rowType): app, review and status (free rows that say why something could not be delivered).

App rows

Group	Fields
App	appId, title, developer, genre, genreId, tags, summary, description, icon, headerImage, screenshots, videoUrl, url
Installs	realInstalls (Google's exact counter), installs (the label, e.g. "100,000,000+"), minInstalls
Changes since the last run	installsGained, installsPerDay, ratingsGained, scoreChange, versionChanged, previousVersion, previousRank, hoursSinceSnapshot, trackingStatus
Ratings	score, ratings, reviewsCount, ratingHistogram (ratings per star), deviceRatings (phone, tablet, watch, chromebook, xr; device types Google Play's data does not name come as device6, device7, device8)
Rank	sourceType, source, rank (position in the chart, search, similar list or catalogue), chartType, chartCategory, chartBadge ("#2 top grossing puzzle")
Price	price, currency, priceText, free, inAppPurchases, iapRange, containsAds
Versions	version, updatedAt, releasedAt, recentChanges, minAndroidVersion
Developer	developerEmail, developerWebsite, developerPhone, developerAddress, developerLegalName, developerLegalEmail, developerId, developerUrl, privacyPolicyUrl
Content & privacy	contentRating, contentRatingDescription, interactiveElements, permissions (grouped as on Google Play), dataSafety (the data-safety labels shown on the app page)
Run	country, language, scrapedAt, error

Review rows: reviewId, appId, appTitle, score, text, date, thumbsUp, appVersion, replyText, replyDate, userName, userImage, criteria, device, language, country, sort, reviewUrl, scrapedAt, error.

Status rows: sourceType, source, appId, country, language, error (for example not-found: Google Play has no app "com.example" in US …), scrapedAt.

appTitle is filled when the run also reads app details (mode "App details + reviews"). version and minAndroidVersion are null when Google Play's data gives no single version (WhatsApp, for example). A number Google Play's data does not carry is null, never 0; a 0 is Google's own value, such as thumbsUp of a review nobody marked helpful. containsAds and inAppPurchases are false when the app page shows no such label.

Sample output

A real app row (trimmed) from run hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw on 2026-09-30, Top grossing · All games · Germany:

{
  "rowType": "app",
  "appId": "com.dreamgames.royalmatch",
  "title": "Royal Match",
  "developer": "Dream Games, Ltd.",
  "realInstalls": 373340703,
  "installs": "100,000,000+",
  "trackingStatus": "first-snapshot",
  "score": 4.461531,
  "ratings": 10826357,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 517472, "2": 192562, "3": 662578, "4": 1856772, "5": 7596869 },
  "sourceType": "chart",
  "source": "Top grossing · All games · DE",
  "rank": 3,
  "chartBadge": "#2 top grossing puzzle",
  "version": "38911",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-25T15:43:39.000Z",
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "inAppPurchases": true,
  "iapRange": "€0.99 - €99.99 if billed through Play",
  "developerEmail": "contact@dreamgames.com",
  "developerWebsite": "https://dreamgames.com",
  "developerPhone": "+90 537 721 27 21",
  "developerAddress": "13TH FLOOR, ONE ANGEL COURT, LONDON, EC2R 7HJ, United Kingdom",
  "developerLegalName": "DREAM GAMES PUBLISHING LIMITED",
  "contentRating": "USK: Ages 12+",
  "dataSafety": [{ "label": "This app may share these data types with third parties", "detail": "Location and Device or other IDs" }],
  "permissions": [{ "group": "Other", "permissions": ["view network connections", "full network access", "control vibration", "prevent device from sleeping", "Google Play license check"] }],
  "deviceRatings": { "phone": 4.46, "tablet": 4.58, "chromebook": 4.53 },
  "country": "de"
}

A review row from run kn5zYXWMMI8q85R6E on the same day (reviewer name and picture replaced here):

{
  "rowType": "review",
  "reviewId": "bba5a811-2652-4fe8-be90-eaad904b12a3",
  "appId": "com.calm.android",
  "appTitle": "Calm - Sleep, Meditate, Relax",
  "score": 1,
  "text": "this is the absolute buggiest app I've ever used, absolutely insane that they charge money for it and have this many issues with basic stuff",
  "date": "2026-09-28T17:47:19.000Z",
  "thumbsUp": 0,
  "appVersion": "7.1.2",
  "replyText": "We’re sorry to hear you’ve been dealing with so many issues. …",
  "replyDate": "2026-09-28T20:49:00.000Z",
  "userName": "<reviewer's display name>",
  "device": "all",
  "reviewUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calm.android&reviewId=bba5a811-2652-4fe8-be90-eaad904b12a3"
}

Input

Input	What it does	Default
mode	apps (app rows), reviews (review rows only) or appsAndReviews	apps
appIds	Package names (com.whatsapp) or Google Play links	—
chartTypes, chartCategories	Top charts × categories. A chart alone reads All apps; a category alone reads Top free	none
searchTerms	Google Play search terms	none
similarTo	Apps whose "Similar apps" list to read (Google Play's separate "More by" list of the same developer is left out)	none
developers	Developer name as shown on Google Play, numeric developer ID, or developer page link	none
maxAppsPerSource	Apps per chart, search, similar list or developer. The Console form starts at 20	50
countries	Google Play countries, up to 20 per run; every source runs once per country	["us"]
language	Language of texts; reviews come from this language's list	en
trackChanges, trackingStoreName	Compare with the previous run; snapshot store name in your account	on, google-play-tracker
maxReviewsPerApp	Reviews per app; 0 = every review Google Play shows for the filter. The Console form starts at 100	200
reviewsSort	newest, relevant, rating	newest
reviewsStars	all or 1–5	all
reviewsDevice	all, phone, tablet, watch, chromebook, xr	all
reviewsPeriod, reviewsSince	last_24_hours … last_365_days, or custom with a YYYY-MM-DD date. A period reads newest first and stops at its start	all
includeReviewerNames	Reviewer display name and picture	on
proxyConfiguration, autoProxyFallback	Proxy is not needed; the Actor moves to Apify proxy by itself if Google Play limits it	off / on

Fill in any combination of sources; the Actor runs all of them. Input that cannot work (no source, an unknown country or chart category, a review period without a valid date) stops the run at once with the reason. In mode apps the review settings are not used. A single bad entry (a line that is not a package name, an app Google Play does not have) becomes a free status row and the rest of the run continues.

Which rows repeat. Top-chart and search rows always keep their own row, because their rank is part of the data: an app in two charts is two rows. App IDs, similar-apps lists and developer catalogues deliver an app once per country and skip apps an earlier source in the run already delivered (counted as duplicates in SOURCE_REPORT). With several countries an app gets one row per country, with that country's price and currency.

Example inputs (copy & paste)

Top grossing games in Türkiye and Germany, 200 each:

{ "chartTypes": ["topgrossing"], "chartCategories": ["GAME"], "countries": ["tr", "de"], "maxAppsPerSource": 200 }

Competitor watch-list, scheduled daily for installs gained, rating and version changes:

{ "appIds": ["com.duolingo", "com.calm.android", "com.spotify.music"], "trackChanges": true, "trackingStoreName": "my-competitors" }

Keyword ranks (ASO) in two markets, scheduled daily:

{ "searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "meditation"], "countries": ["us", "gb"], "trackChanges": true, "trackingStoreName": "my-aso" }

Developer contacts for B2B outreach:

{ "chartTypes": ["topselling_free"], "chartCategories": ["BUSINESS"], "countries": ["de"], "maxAppsPerSource": 200, "trackChanges": false }

Every review of an app:

{ "mode": "reviews", "appIds": ["com.lafitness.lafitness"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 0 }

One-star reviews of the last 30 days:

{ "mode": "reviews", "appIds": ["com.calm.android"], "reviewsStars": "1", "reviewsPeriod": "last_30_days", "maxReviewsPerApp": 0 }

How change tracking works

With trackChanges on, the Actor keeps a small snapshot of each app in the named key-value store trackingStoreName in your Apify account: the install counter (one worldwide figure), the ratings count, score, version and update time per country (Google's rating differs by country), and the app's rank in each chart and search term. The next run compares every app with its snapshot and fills:

• installsGained, ratingsGained, scoreChange, versionChanged and previousVersion, and previousRank on chart and search rows;
• installsPerDay (installsGained per 24 hours since the snapshot), only when the snapshots are at least 20 hours apart (trackingStatus: "compared"). A shorter gap gives compared-under-20h and no per-day figure.

The first run of an app is first-snapshot. Give each schedule its own trackingStoreName: runs that share a store compare with each other's snapshots, so a test run between two scheduled runs shortens the next comparison.

The tracking fields of a real row, 20.1 hours after the first run (run U3SZ9oSKb8N3GQ7bg):

{
  "appId": "com.whatsapp",
  "source": "Top free · All apps · US",
  "rank": 5,
  "previousRank": 5,
  "realInstalls": 12355354655,
  "trackingStatus": "compared",
  "hoursSinceSnapshot": 20.1,
  "installsGained": 2838195,
  "installsPerDay": 3389578,
  "ratingsGained": 74658,
  "scoreChange": 0.0005
}

How often Google moves the install counter

realInstalls is the exact install counter the app page carries behind the "100M+" label. Google moves it in steps, not continuously, and not at the same time or as often for every app. We read the counters of two groups of apps 9 times between 2026-09-30 20:08 and 2026-10-01 20:10 UTC:

Apps	First run	~20 hours later	24 hours later
Top free · All apps · US and 19 app IDs	eJqK7r5Uk9uvnBl7J	U3SZ9oSKb8N3GQ7bg: 161 of 209 had a new count (77%)	jGshD5o3homKvWDHx: 151 of 186 (81%)
Top grossing · All games · Türkiye and Germany	hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw	T2biIv3r0YhUoRAgQ: 138 of 281 (49%)	VnxdUcfpBJoQwcSlW: 159 of 279 (57%)

The 24-hour column counts the apps that were in both runs (the charts changed during the day). Between runs, no count went down. Bigger apps move more often: within 24 hours, 77 of the 84 US apps and 56 of the 65 games with 100 million or more installs had a new count, but only 74 of 102 US apps and 103 of 214 games with fewer installs.

What this means for your numbers:

• installsGained is exact: it is the difference of Google's own counter between your two runs.
• installsGained: 0 usually means Google has not moved the counter since your last run, not that nobody installed the app: 46 of the 48 US apps whose count had not moved after 20.1 hours had more ratings than at the first run (5 to 17,934 more; one had 1 fewer, one has no ratings).
• Steps differ in size. WhatsApp's count rose by 2,838,195 in the 20.1 hours after the first run and by 5,764,502 in the 3.9 hours after that (runs U3SZ9oSKb8N3GQ7bg, jGshD5o3homKvWDHx). So one day's installsGained or installsPerDay can be 0, one step or two. For a steady rate per day, compare runs a week apart, or add up a week of daily runs.
• While Google moves a counter, two requests seconds apart can get the old and the new value (13,069 apart for one app in run hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw).

Ranks, versions and ratings

• The US Top free chart had the same 200 apps in the same order 20.1 hours after the first run, and was reshuffled 4 hours later: 11 of the 176 apps still in it kept their rank (run jGshD5o3homKvWDHx). The Top grossing games charts of Türkiye and Germany kept 41 and 27 of their 200 apps at the same rank over 20.3 hours.
• Google Play changes the version on the page and its update date separately: of 12 version changes in the US group between the first two runs (20.1 hours), 8 kept the earlier updatedAt.
• Ratings counts differ between requests seconds apart: in run hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw the same app had the same ratings count in the Turkish and the German chart for only 42 of 114 apps. Read ratingsGained over a day, not over minutes.

Use cases

• ASO and market intelligence: category landscapes from the top charts, keyword ranks from search, install growth of the apps that matter to you.
• Competitor tracking: a daily schedule on a watch-list: installs gained, rating trend, new versions and their release notes.
• Investors and app scouting: which apps gain installs fastest in a category week over week, from Google's own counter rather than a model.
• B2B sales to app developers: SDK, ad network, user-acquisition and localization vendors get the developer's email, phone, website and address with the app's installs and category.
• Product and customer feedback: every review of your app or a competitor's, with replies and, where Google shows it, the app version the reviewer used, for dashboards or language models.
• Privacy and compliance research: permissions and data-safety labels across a category.

Performance

One details request returns up to 40 apps (the Actor sends 40 per request and runs 4 at a time), a top chart comes in one request, and a review request returns up to 1,000 reviews. Measured on the Apify platform on 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-01 with the default settings (1 GB memory, no proxy):

Run	Input	Rows	Requests	Time
FK2rq7N3aVg1dJzfM	The Console form's first input (3 app IDs)	3 apps	1	2 s
Mpfgz4MaSYhncRvtS	Top grossing · All games · Türkiye and Germany, 200 each	400 apps	12	19 s
63eQ16al6XO48gCJL	Top free · Business · Germany, 200	200 apps	11	15 s
jGshD5o3homKvWDHx	20 app IDs + Top free · All apps · US, 200, change tracking (third run)	219 apps	9	8 s
M9f6djYo96mW9paEO	2 search terms × US and UK	111 apps	10	21 s
NDgkbsOoeTXhumHDb	Every review of LA Fitness	5,456 reviews	6	8 s
MD7abR9UdVvN5VHSq	5,000 one-star reviews of Duolingo	5,000 reviews	5	10 s

In the Actor's first 137 platform runs no request was rate-limited or blocked and none needed a proxy (315 requests, none failed). Of the 3,210 app details asked for in batches, 21 came back without data; the Actor asked for each of them again: the 18 apps that exist all came back, and the other 3 are not on Google Play (their page returns 404).

Integrations

Use the dataset from the API (run-sync-get-dataset-items, the Apify JavaScript and Python clients), schedule the Actor in Apify Console for daily tracking, or connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets or a webhook. The dataset has three views: Apps, Developer contacts and Reviews.

Data quality

Measured on the Apify platform on 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-01:

• Top grossing games, Türkiye and Germany (400 rows, Mpfgz4MaSYhncRvtS): exact installs, rating histogram, developer email, address and permissions on all 400, phone on 399; chart ranks 1–200 without gaps in both countries; no row twice.
• Top free Business apps, Germany (200 rows, 63eQ16al6XO48gCJL): developer email 200, address 200, website 188, phone 173; 192 have ratings (Google Play shows no rating for the other 8).
• Every review of LA Fitness (NDgkbsOoeTXhumHDb, 2026-10-01): 5,456 reviews from 2026-09-30 back to the app's release in June 2010, none twice. The all-devices list is the largest: on 2026-09-30 it held all 5,364 reviews of the phone list (mMHGpsRzKfCI4iAWb) and 91 more.
• App version per review: Google shows it for some reviews only. appVersion was filled for 90.1% of LA Fitness reviews (4,914 of 5,456, NDgkbsOoeTXhumHDb) and 74.7% of Duolingo's one-star reviews (3,734 of 5,000, MD7abR9UdVvN5VHSq). In Google's raw answer, checked on 1,000 Duolingo reviews, the reviews without appVersion carry no version at all.
• Checked against Google Play: 20 app rows from three runs, 18 fields each (title, installs, rating, version, price, developer email, phone, address, website, privacy policy…), were compared with the data of the live app page, read within 19 minutes: all 346 values that were filled agreed (installs, ratings count and rating within a small margin, since they move), and 14 were empty on both sides. The reviewUrl pages of 5 reviews all contained the review.
• Format checks on 935 app rows: every developer email, website and privacy-policy link well formed; no release day later than the update day; no HTML left in descriptions and release notes.

Pricing

Each delivered app row is one app event, change tracking included. Each delivered review is one review event. Status rows are free: an app Google Play does not have, an empty chart or search, an invalid entry, a failed source. Each run also has Apify's small Actor-start event (per GB of memory). Current prices are on the Pricing tab. A run stops fetching when it reaches the maximum cost you set for it: with a $0.01 maximum, run DmF9zWHLfAjBPdfQ2 delivered 24 apps, listed the source it did not reach as stopped and said so in its log.

FAQ

What is the difference between installs and realInstalls? installs is the label Google Play shows ("100,000,000+"). realInstalls is the exact counter the page carries (373,340,703 for Royal Match on 2026-09-30). It is a worldwide figure: of the 114 apps in both the Turkish and the German top-grossing chart of run hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw, 113 had the same count in both countries (for the other one, two reads 3 seconds apart differed by 13,069), and all 113 such apps did in run T2biIv3r0YhUoRAgQ a day later.

Why is installsPerDay empty? It needs an earlier snapshot at least 20 hours old. The first run of an app is first-snapshot; a second run on the same day is compared-under-20h.

Why is installsGained 0 for a popular app? Google had not moved that app's counter since your last run (see "How often Google moves the install counter"). 20.1 hours after the first run, 48 of 209 US apps still had the same count, Amazon Shopping and Temu among them (run U3SZ9oSKb8N3GQ7bg).

Why do I get fewer apps than maxAppsPerSource? A top chart holds at most 200 apps. Google Play shows a few dozen results per search term: 21 for "habit tracker" and 30 for "meditation" in the US (run M9f6djYo96mW9paEO). A developer page's count can be higher than the apps it lists: Supercell's count was 9 and 7 apps were listed in the US, Finland, the UK and Germany (Japan: 8 and 7; run MCP6n6whW0GROltbe).

Why does an app appear twice? It is in two charts, in a chart and a search, in your app IDs and in a chart or search, or you chose two countries. See "Which rows repeat" above.

Why is the number of reviews lower than reviewsCount? reviewsCount is Google's review count for the chosen country (Royal Match had 22,282 in Türkiye and 27,893 in Germany in run hjqW9KucL3qylkvbw); the review list holds the reviews in the language you choose, so the two numbers count different reviews and need not match (LA Fitness in the US, in English, on 2026-10-01: 5,456 reviews listed, reviewsCount 5,628). Old reviews without text are listed with text: null (22 of the 5,456 LA Fitness reviews, all from 2014–2015), and old reviews without stars have score: null (1 of 5,456, from 2011).

Is date the day the review was written? It is the date Google Play gives for the review, and it can be later than the developer's reply: 1 of 28 replies in 50 Calm reviews was older than its review (runs kn5zYXWMMI8q85R6E, j48E9VpoKz9N6CWrU), most likely because the review was edited after the reply.

Can I get reviews in several languages? Run once per language; each language has its own review list.

Are reviewer names included? Yes, as Google Play shows them; set includeReviewerNames to false to leave names and pictures empty. Google account IDs are never included.

Does it need a proxy? No. Requests start without one; if Google Play limits them, the Actor moves to Apify datacenter proxy and then residential proxy by itself and notes it in the log and in SOURCE_REPORT.requests (tested with a proxy that refused connections: run kyG5sLujiWemiK2BZ switched to datacenter proxy and delivered the app).

Troubleshooting

• A status row says not-found: Google Play has no app with that package name in that country (its page returns 404). Check the name; the app may be unpublished or not offered there.
• A developer returns nothing: use the name exactly as the developer page shows it, or paste the developer page link.
• The run stopped early: it reached the maximum cost you set for the run; the log says so.
• Nothing was delivered: every source that returned nothing leaves a free status row, and the SOURCE_REPORT record in the key-value store explains each source.

Notes, limits & legal

• The Actor reads public Google Play pages and the data they load for any visitor, without a login. Keep scrapedAt with the data; ratings, ranks and prices change often.
• Developer contact details are published by Google Play; for individual developers they can be personal data, so use them in line with the privacy rules that apply to you.
• "Google Play" is a trademark of Google LLC. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.

Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab with the run ID and the input.

Changelog

0.1 — 2026-10-01

First version. See CHANGELOG.md.