# Google Play Scraper — Apps, Search & Reviews, No Login (`highbrow_fame/google-play-apps-reviews`) Actor

Google Play apps from links, searches or developers — installs, rating, rating histogram, price, ads, versions — plus reviews with developer replies, without reviewer names.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/highbrow\_fame/google-play-apps-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [yestrue](https://apify.com/highbrow_fame) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Play Scraper — Apps, Search & Reviews, No Login

Get Google Play apps — by link, package name, search word or developer — with installs, rating, the full rating histogram, price, in-app purchases, ads, versions and store listing. Switch on reviews and get the written reviews of every app, with the developer's reply. No login, no browser, no Google account.

**Why this one**

- 📱 **Apps and reviews in one run.** Search `habit tracker`, add a competitor's app and a developer, switch on reviews — one run delivers every app and its reviews, each row labelled. A live test run delivered 32 apps and 20,667 reviews in 212 seconds.
- 📊 **Full details for search results too.** Google Play search only shows a summary. This Actor opens every app it finds, so search results come with installs, rating count, histogram and version like any other app.
- 💬 **Developer replies included.** Every review comes with the developer's answer and its date, when there is one — 6,430 of the 20,667 reviews in the test run had one.
- 🔒 **No reviewer names.** Reviews are delivered without reviewer names or pictures.
- 💸 **You pay only for what is delivered.** An unknown app or a search with no results comes back as a free record with the reason.

### What you get

Every row has a `recordType`: `app` or `review`.

**Apps**

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `appId`, `name`, `url` | the app (package name) |
| `developer`, `developerId`, `developerWebsite` | who makes it |
| `rating`, `ratingCount`, `reviewCount`, `histogram` | average rating, number of ratings and written reviews, and the 1–5 star breakdown |
| `installs`, `minInstalls`, `maxInstalls` | install range as shown ("5,000,000+") and as numbers |
| `price`, `currency`, `free`, `offersInAppPurchases`, `inAppPriceRange`, `containsAds` | money |
| `genre`, `genreId`, `contentRating` | category and age rating |
| `version`, `androidVersion`, `updated`, `released`, `recentChanges` | versions and dates |
| `summary`, `description`, `icon`, `headerImage`, `screenshots`, `video`, `privacyPolicy` | store listing |
| `input`, `inputType`, `position`, `country`, `language` | where it came from, and its place in a search |

**Reviews**

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `appId`, `appName` | which app |
| `rating`, `title`, `text` | the review |
| `appVersion`, `date`, `thumbsUp` | the version reviewed, when, and how many found it useful |
| `developerReply`, `developerReplyDate` | the developer's answer |
| `sort`, `reviewId`, `country`, `language` | which list it came from, and its id |

#### Example

Real records from a live run, 24 September 2026 (some app fields left out here):

```json
{
  "recordType": "app",
  "input": "habit tracker",
  "inputType": "search",
  "position": 1,
  "appId": "org.isoron.uhabits",
  "name": "Loop Habit Tracker",
  "rating": 4.72,
  "ratingCount": 63326,
  "reviewCount": 3418,
  "histogram": { "1": 1850, "2": 880, "3": 1850, "4": 4106, "5": 54610 },
  "installs": "5,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 5000000,
  "free": true,
  "containsAds": false,
  "genre": "Productivity",
  "version": "2.3.1",
  "updated": "2025-09-14T22:56:06.000Z",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits",
  "status": "OK"
}
```

```json
{
  "recordType": "review",
  "appId": "app.disciplined.productive.structured.habit.tracker",
  "appName": "Disciplined - Habit Tracker",
  "rating": 1,
  "text": "paid statistics is ok, but having to pay fot downloading my own data is unacceptable.",
  "date": "2024-11-26T02:47:19.588Z",
  "thumbsUp": 4,
  "developerReply": "Thank you for the review. When you put it like that, it makes sense. I will be removing the restriction in the next update.",
  "developerReplyDate": "2024-11-26T07:15:38.712Z",
  "status": "OK"
}
```

### How to use it

1. Add **Apps** (Google Play links or package names), **Search words** and/or **Developers**.
2. Set the **Country** and **Language** — they decide the price, the texts and which reviews you get.
3. For reviews, switch on **Also get reviews**, pick the **Review order** and the **Max reviews per app**.
4. Press **Start**, and download the results from the **Output** tab as JSON, CSV or Excel. Filter on `recordType` to separate apps from reviews.

To follow your ratings or a competitor's reviews, save your input as a task and schedule it daily or weekly.

You can also call it from the Apify API, from Make, Zapier or n8n, or from an AI agent through the Apify MCP server.

### Pricing

You are charged **per app** and **per review** delivered — see the prices on this page. Unknown apps and empty searches are free. If your run has a **Maximum charge**, the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

### FAQ

**Why at most 30 apps per search?** That is how many Google Play shows for a search. For more, add more search words, or add developers.

**How many reviews can I get?** As many as Google Play lists for the chosen language and country — set **Max reviews per app**. In the test run, apps with more than 1,000 reviews gave the full 1,000 asked for.

**Is this affiliated with Google?** No. This is an independent tool that reads public Google Play data. It uses the open-source google-play-scraper library.

**Like it?** A short review on the Store page helps other people find this Actor. Something missing or broken? Tell us on the Issues tab — we read every one.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

Google Play app links or package names (com.whatsapp).

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

What you would type into the Google Play search. Google Play shows up to 30 apps per search.

## `developers` (type: `array`):

Developer links from Google Play, or the developer name exactly as shown (WhatsApp LLC) — all their apps are delivered.

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

Two-letter country code: us, gb, de, in, br, hu…

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language of the texts and of the reviews: en, de, es, pt, hu…

## `searchFullDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Search results only carry a summary. On: every app is opened for installs, rating count, histogram, version and the rest (one extra request per app).

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Deliver the written reviews of every app found, with the developer's reply. Reviewer names are not included.

## `reviewSort` (type: `string`):

Which reviews come first.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Stops each app after this many reviews.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many apps or searches to work on at the same time.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Used only when Google Play turns a request down: the first try goes out directly.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "searchFullDetails": true,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "reviewSort": "newest",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every result as a JSON record, with a status for each input.

## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`):

The same records as CSV, for a spreadsheet.

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("highbrow_fame/google-play-apps-reviews").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 = {
    "apps": ["https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits"],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "includeReviews": True,
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("highbrow_fame/google-play-apps-reviews").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.isoron.uhabits"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call highbrow_fame/google-play-apps-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,highbrow_fame/google-play-apps-reviews"
        }
    }
}
```

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/9NuOTYXxhMGyhk1pB/builds/yYfTwbLjt3IgK5pBM/openapi.json