Google Play App Intel

Structured data from the Google Play Store in four modes: full app details by package name or URL, search results, a developer's portfolio, and top charts by category and collection. Every detail record carries the install bucket with exact min/max counts, the five-star rating histogram, version and last update, price and in-app purchase range, ads flag, content rating, developer contact details, and the data-safety summary (what the app shares and collects, encryption in transit, deletion requests).

Requests run at one per second per run, with retries and no login or proxies. The data-safety summary is parsed from the same page load as the details, so it costs no extra request.

What you can do with it

• Competitor and market tracking - pull your category's top 100 weekly with fullDetail and watch installs, ratings, version cadence and IAP ranges move.
• App-store optimisation - see which apps rank for your keywords in each country, with their ratings and prices.
• Due diligence and lead lists - a developer's whole portfolio with install counts, update recency and contact email in one run.
• Privacy and compliance monitoring - the data-safety card as structured fields for hundreds of apps at once.

Modes and input

Mode	Required input	What a row is
detail	appIds (package names or store URLs)	one full app record
search	searchTerms	one ranked search result per app (position)
developer	developerIds (name as shown on Play, or numeric id)	one app in the portfolio
chart	chartCategory + chartCollection (TOP_FREE, TOP_PAID, GROSSING)	one ranked chart entry (rank, snapshotAt)

country and language select the store (us/en by default). maxResults caps results per term, per developer or per chart (up to 500). fullDetail: true turns every list entry into a full app record.

{ "mode": "chart", "chartCategory": "FINANCE", "chartCollection": "TOP_FREE", "country": "gb", "maxResults": 100, "fullDetail": true }

Output

Detail record (abridged):

{
  "recordType": "app",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en&gl=us",
  "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "developer": "Spotify AB",
  "developerId": "Spotify+AB",
  "developerEmail": "android-support@spotify.com",
  "genre": "Music & Audio",
  "genreId": "MUSIC_AND_AUDIO",
  "installsText": "1,000,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 1000000000,
  "maxInstalls": 3154302792,
  "score": 4.35,
  "ratingsCount": 36459955,
  "histogram": { "1": 3713670, "2": 1063641, "3": 1312025, "4": 3098693, "5": 27271910 },
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "offersIAP": true,
  "iapRange": "$4.99 - $203.88 per item",
  "adSupported": true,
  "contentRating": "Teen",
  "released": "May 27, 2014",
  "updated": "2026-10-07T03:07:03.000Z",
  "version": "VARY",
  "androidVersion": "VARY",
  "dataSafety": {
    "sharesData": true,
    "sharedDataTypes": "Location, Personal info, and Device or other IDs",
    "collectsData": true,
    "collectedDataTypes": "Location, Personal info and 7 others",
    "encryptedInTransit": true,
    "canRequestDeletion": true,
    "independentSecurityReview": false,
    "playFamiliesPolicy": false,
    "summary": ["This app may share these data types with third parties: Location, Personal info, and Device or other IDs", "..."]
  },
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-10T20:40:11.512Z"
}

Also included: summary, description, categories, developerWebsite, developerAddress, privacyPolicy, priceText, originalPrice, contentRatingDescription, recentChanges, icon, headerImage, screenshotCount, hasVideo, available, preregister, playPass. List rows (search, developer, chart) carry appId, url, title, summary, developer, developerId, score, price, currency, free, icon plus the ranking fields.

The key-value store record SUMMARY lists request counts and every failure (for example an app id that returned 404), so a partial run is diagnosable without the log.

Pricing

Pay per event:

Event	Price	Charged when
Run start	$0.005	once per run
App detail	$0.002	per full app record (detail mode, or any list entry with fullDetail)
Search query	$0.003	per search term, with its whole result list
Chart entry	$0.002	per ranked app in a chart (light rows)
Developer portfolio entry	$0.002	per app in a developer list (light rows)

Examples: details for 25 apps cost $0.005 + 25 x $0.002 = $0.055. Five searches with 50 light results each cost $0.02. A top-100 chart with full details costs $0.005 + 100 x $0.002 = $0.205.

Speed and limits

• One request per second: 100 detail records take about 100 seconds; light search, developer and chart lists take one to a few seconds each.
• The data-safety summary is parsed from English store pages (language: en). For other languages the field is null; all other fields are localised normally.
• Data-safety detail (per-purpose breakdown) and user reviews are not included; the store's separate data-safety page is excluded by Google's robots.txt and is not fetched.
• Search returns at most 250 apps per term and charts at most 500, which is what the store exposes.
• Country-restricted apps return 404 in stores where they are not listed; they appear in SUMMARY.failures, not as rows.
• Google changes the page's embedded data layout a few times a year; the parser is the maintained google-play-scraper library plus a small data-safety extractor, and both are covered by the local test (npm test).