Google Play Reviews Scraper API | Full History, Dev Replies

What is Google Play Reviews Scraper API?

It collects user reviews from Google Play, for as many apps and languages as you need, with no cap at 150 or 500: the full review history of an app is reachable in one run, in one clean JSON format.

Every review comes with the app version it was written on, the developer reply when there is one, the language it is actually written in and an anonymised author. Schedule it, and it returns only the reviews published since the last run.

👉 Paste a Google Play link or package name, press Start, and get your first reviews in seconds.

Why use it

	This Actor	A typical Google Play review scraper
📚 Full history	✅ 30,000 reviews in about a minute	often stuck at 150 or at page 1
🔢 App version on each review	✅ when Google gives it (about 80%)	varies
💬 Developer replies	✅ text and date	varies
🗣️ Language of the text	✅ detected, not assumed from the query	query language only
🔁 Only new reviews since the last run	✅ built in	rarely built in
🆔 Stable review IDs across runs	✅ safe to de-duplicate and join	not guaranteed
🧱 Errors are errors	✅ a block or a failure is reported, never returned as "0 reviews"	an empty result looks like success
🔒 Authors anonymised by default	✅	usually names in clear
⭐ Filter by stars, pay only for kept reviews	✅	varies

Why there is no country filter. Google Play serves the same reviews for a given language, whatever the country. Asking for France and the US in French returns the same list. So you pick languages, and you don't pay twice for the same reviews.

Why errors matter. When Google slows a scraper down, many tools read the refusal as "no more reviews" and return a short list as if it were complete. This Actor retries, and if it still can't read a page, it says so in the run status.

What data do you get?

Field	Example	Notes
store	google_play	always google_play here
app_id, app_name	com.spotify.music, Spotify: Music and Podcasts
language_requested	en	language queried
language_detected, language_confidence	en, 0.99	from the text itself, empty under 25 letters
rating	1	1 to 5 stars
text
date	2026-09-30T11:15:55Z	UTC
app_version, version_confidence	9.1.52, exact	as given by Google
developer_reply, developer_reply_date		when the developer answered
helpful_count	3
review_id	google_play:com.spotify.music:…	stable across runs
author_hash	a1b2c3d4e5f60718	stable anonymous ID
author_name	null	only if you turn it on

The same schema is used by our App Store and two-store Actors, so you can merge the results without any mapping.

Real review from a test run

Stars	Version	Language	Review
★☆☆☆☆	9.1.52	en	Finally switched to Apple music. Thank you. (with developer reply)

How to use it

1. Apps: one per line. A Google Play URL (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music) or the package name (com.spotify.music).
2. Google Play languages: pick the languages you want to read.
3. Max reviews: per app and language. Raise it as high as you need for the full history.
4. Filter by stars (optional): for example 1 to 2 for negative reviews only. Max reviews and billing count kept reviews only.
5. Scheduled tracking (optional): turn on Only new reviews since the last run, give it a tracking name, and schedule the Actor daily or weekly.

Input example

{
  "apps": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo"],
  "googleLanguages": ["en", "fr", "de"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 5000,
  "onlyNewReviews": false
}

Don't have the app list? Find apps first

Fill Search terms or Developers instead of (or together with) Apps, and the Actor finds the Google Play apps first, then collects their reviews:

• Search terms: one keyword per line. The top apps of the first page of Google Play search (about 24 results, 5 kept by default), in the country set in Google Play search country.
• Developers: the developer page URL (play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Spotify+AB) or the developer exactly as in that address, the name or the number after dev?id=. The Actor takes up to 20 apps per developer.

Reviews are collected for every app found, so set Max reviews per app too. Google Play search and developer pages are not an official API: if Google changes them, the Actor fails and says so.

Use cases

• 📦 Android product managers: see what a release changed, version by version.
• 🎧 Support and community teams: get today's 1 and 2-star reviews and see which ones already have a developer reply.
• 🔎 ASO and marketing: read how users talk about you and your competitors, language by language.
• 📊 Analysts and investors: years of reviews of an app or a whole category, with the same fields.
• 🤖 Data pipelines and AI agents: a stable schema, stable IDs and new reviews only, ready to feed a database or a model.
• 🎓 Researchers: large multilingual labelled text (stars as labels), with authors anonymised.

Pricing

$0.30 per 1,000 reviews on the free plan, lower on paid Apify plans, down to $0.15 per 1,000 reviews. A run that finds no new review only costs the Actor start. The $5 of monthly credit on Apify's free plan covers about 16,000 reviews a month. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options if you want a hard cap.

Integrations

Run it from the Apify API, schedule it, send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook, or call it from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Need the App Store too?

• App Store Reviews Scraper API: 175 countries in one run, same schema.
• App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper API: both stores in one run.
• App Store & Google Play Scraper: app details instead of reviews: update date, release notes, ratings, installs, permissions, price per country.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Google Play reviews?

The Actor only reads reviews that Google Play displays publicly, at a moderate pace. Reviewer names are personal data: they are replaced by an anonymous hash by default, and you should only turn names on if you have a legal basis to process them. You remain responsible for how you use the data. If in doubt, ask a lawyer.

How many reviews can I get?

The full history is reachable. 30,000 reviews of Spotify took about a minute in our tests. Set Max reviews to the number you need: you pay only for the reviews returned.

Why is app_version sometimes empty?

Google Play gives the version for most reviews (about 80% in our tests), not all. When Google doesn't give it, the field stays empty: the Actor never guesses it.

Why is language_detected sometimes empty?

When a review has fewer than 25 letters ("Great app 👍"), the language can't be told reliably, so the field stays empty rather than wrong. That is common on Google Play, where many reviews are very short.

I pasted an App Store link and the run failed. Why?

This Actor reads Google Play only. For the App Store, use our App Store Actor, or the two-store Actor for both at once.

Something is wrong or missing?

Open an issue on this page. Every report is read.

Is this Actor affiliated with Google?

No. Google Play is a trademark of Google LLC.