Google Play Reviews Scraper — No API Key

Scrape and export Google Play app reviews in bulk — star rating, review text, author name, date, thumbs-up count, app version, and the developer's reply — as clean structured JSON or CSV. No API key, no login. Point it at any app by package name (com.spotify.music) or Play Store URL and pay per result. Built for ASO teams, product managers, and developers who need public review data for any app, not just their own.

Google's official Play Developer API only returns reviews for apps you own. This Actor pulls public reviews for any app on the store.

Requests use got-scraping's browser-like TLS and header fingerprinting over rotating Apify datacenter proxy IPs, with automatic retries, so review pagination keeps flowing at volume.

⚡ Quick start

Paste this into the Actor's Input (JSON view) and hit Start:

{
  "appId": "com.instagram.android",
  "maxReviews": 100
}

Each result row looks like:

{
  "reviewId": "8c3f2a1e-5b7d-4e29-9f04-1d6c8a53b7e2",
  "author": "Daniel Okafor",
  "score": 4,
  "text": "Reels load fast now, but I wish the app had a proper dark mode schedule.",
  "thumbsUp": 37,
  "date": "2026-06-30T09:14:22.000Z",
  "appVersion": "389.0.0.49.81",
  "replyText": null
}

Or run it from the API:

POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/jamhimself~google-play-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN

What you get

One row per review:

Field	Type	Description
reviewId	string	Unique review identifier
author	string	Reviewer's display name
score	number	Star rating, 1–5
text	string	Full review text
thumbsUp	number	How many users found the review helpful
date	string	Review date, ISO 8601 timestamp
appVersion	string	App version the review was left on (when available)
replyText	string	The developer's reply, if any
avatar	string	URL of the reviewer's avatar image

Use cases

• ASO & review sentiment — track star ratings, recurring complaints, and feature requests over time to guide app store optimization.
• Competitor monitoring — mine rival apps' reviews for bugs, churn triggers, and feature gaps you can win on.
• Product feedback at scale — surface crash reports, UX friction, and requests straight from real users.
• Market & UX research — quantify sentiment across categories and geographies with language and country targeting.
• LLM / RAG feed — pipe structured review text into summarization, classification, and topic-modeling pipelines.
• Dataset building — assemble labeled review corpora (rating + text) for sentiment training and NLP.

Input

Field	Type	Description
appId	string	Required. Package name (e.g. com.spotify.music) or a Google Play app URL.
maxReviews	integer	Max reviews to return. Default 200, max 20000.
sort	string	newest, rating, or relevance. Default newest.
language	string	ISO 639-1 language code, e.g. en. Default en.
country	string	ISO 3166-1 country code, e.g. US. Default US.
proxyConfiguration	object	Proxy settings. Apify Proxy (datacenter) is recommended and enough.

Pricing

Pay per review delivered. No subscription.

If the Actor works well for you, a quick review on the Apify Store is genuinely appreciated — it helps others find it.

Notes

• Reviews come from Google Play's public web endpoint; language and country change which reviews are returned.
• Google adjusts its internal response format periodically; this Actor is actively maintained.