Google Play Scraper — Apps, Ratings & Installs, No API Key, Clean JSON

Search Google Play by keyword or look up exact apps, and get back clean, structured JSON — title, developer, rating, rating count, install count, price, currency, category, content rating, description and icon. It reads Google Play's own public search results and app pages over fast, plain HTTP. No account, no API key. Built for app market research and ASO teams who need reliable store data without a headless browser.

Features

• 🔎 Keyword search or direct lookup — pass searches like "weather", or exact appIds like com.spotify.music (package names or Play URLs).
• ⭐ Ratings that matter — rating and ratingCount come straight from the app's structured data.
• 📥 Install counts — the installs field captures Google's downloads figure (e.g. "1,000,000+").
• 💵 Price + free flag — price, currency and a free boolean, parsed from the store offer.
• 🌍 Country & language control — set country and language to see localized rankings and metadata.
• ⚡ Fast, browser-free HTTP — no headless Chrome, no login, with built-in retry on rate limits.
• 🏷️ Rich metadata — category, contentRating, operatingSystem, full description and icon URL.

What you get

Every app becomes one clean JSON record:

{
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "title": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "developer": "Spotify AB",
  "rating": 4.3,
  "ratingCount": 32000000,
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "category": "MUSIC_AND_AUDIO",
  "contentRating": "Teen",
  "operatingSystem": "ANDROID",
  "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
  "description": "With Spotify, you can listen to music and play millions of songs and podcasts...",
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/icon.png",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
}

Input

{
  "searches": ["weather", "budget"],
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 30,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false }
}

Field	Description
searches	Keywords to search on Google Play, one per line.
appIds	Specific package names or Play URLs (e.g. com.spotify.music), one per line.
maxAppsPerSearch	Apps to fetch per search term (~30 max results).
country	Store country code (e.g. us, gb, de).
language	Language code (e.g. en, es).
proxyConfiguration	Optional. Google Play works without a proxy.

Use cases

• Run app market research on a keyword and rank competitors by rating and installs.
• Monitor your own app's rating, install count and store metadata over time.
• Build an ASO dataset of titles, categories and descriptions in a target country.
• Enrich a catalog of package names with live pricing and rating data.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. The Actor reads Google Play's public search results and app detail pages over plain HTTP — no login, no API key and no headless browser, with built-in retry on rate limits.

How many apps can I get per run? Google Play returns roughly 30 results per search term; use maxAppsPerSearch to control that. You can also look up an unlimited list of exact apps by passing package names or Play URLs in appIds.

Is scraping Google Play legal? Only public store data that Google Play shows to any visitor is read. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with Google; "Google Play" is a trademark of Google LLC. Review Google's Terms of Service and applicable regulations for your use case.

What's the output format? Clean JSON — one record per app with appId, title, developer, rating, ratingCount, installs, price, currency, free, category, contentRating, description, icon and store url. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Can I target a specific country or language? Yes. Set country (e.g. us, gb, de) and language (e.g. en, es) to get localized rankings, pricing and metadata.

Related Actors

Extend your app-market and ASO research with related scrapers:

• Google Play Reviews Scraper — user reviews and ratings for any Android app.
• App Store Reviews Scraper — reviews and ratings from Apple's App Store.

Notes

This Actor reads Google Play's public search results and app detail pages. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google; "Google Play" is a trademark of Google LLC.