# Google Play Reviews Scraper (`jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor Scrape Google Play app reviews as clean JSON: author, star rating, review text, thumbs-up, date, app version, and developer reply. Bulk, no API key. - **URL**: https://apify.com/jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Jaime Martinez](https://apify.com/jamhimself) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, Agents, AI - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $2.00 / 1,000 product reviews 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Google Play Reviews Scraper Export every review for any Google Play app as clean, structured JSON — author, star rating, text, thumbs-up, date, app version, and the developer's reply — with no API key. Google's official Play Developer API only returns reviews for apps **you own**. This Actor gets public reviews for **any** app. ### What you get One row per review: - **author** — reviewer name - **score** — star rating (1–5) - **text** — the review text - **thumbsUp** — how many found it helpful - **date** — ISO timestamp - **appVersion** — the app version reviewed - **replyText** — the developer's reply, if any - **reviewId**, **avatar** ### Use cases - **App reputation & ASO** — track sentiment, ratings, and themes over time - **Competitor monitoring** — mine rivals' reviews for complaints and feature gaps - **Product feedback** — surface bugs and requests at scale - **Feeding AI agents / LLMs** — structured review text for summarization and analysis ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |------|------|-------------| | `appId` | string | Package name (e.g. `com.spotify.music`) or Play Store URL (required) | | `maxReviews` | integer | Max reviews to return (default 200) | | `sort` | string | `newest`, `rating`, or `relevance` (default `newest`) | | `language` | string | Language code, e.g. `en` | | `country` | string | Country code, e.g. `US` | | `proxyConfiguration` | object | Proxy settings — Apify Proxy recommended | #### Example ```json { "appId": "com.spotify.music", "maxReviews": 500, "sort": "newest" } ```` ### Output ```json { "reviewId": "7e1815f2-36d1-4187-a936-12f969747892", "author": "Catherine Hempel", "score": 5, "text": "The paid version is excellent but very expensive.", "thumbsUp": 28, "date": "2026-04-21T13:35:57.000Z", "appVersion": "9.1.40.1486", "replyText": null, "avatar": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/..." } ``` ### Notes - Reviews are read from Google Play's public web endpoint; **language** and **country** affect which reviews are returned. - Google changes its internal response format periodically; this Actor is actively maintained. # Actor input Schema ## `appId` (type: `string`): The app's package name (e.g. "com.spotify.music") or its Google Play URL. ## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of reviews to return. ## `sort` (type: `string`): Order to fetch reviews in. ## `language` (type: `string`): Language code (ISO 639-1), e.g. "en". ## `country` (type: `string`): Country code (ISO 3166-1), e.g. "US". ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy settings. Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough and recommended for IP rotation. ## Actor input object example ```json { "appId": "com.spotify.music", "maxReviews": 200, "sort": "newest", "language": "en", "country": "US", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `reviews` (type: `string`): One row per review: author, rating, text, thumbs-up, date, app version, and reply. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "appId": "com.spotify.music", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "appId": "com.spotify.music", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "appId": "com.spotify.music", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } }' | apify call jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jamhimself/google-play-reviews-scraper", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Google Play Reviews Scraper", "description": "Scrape Google Play app reviews as clean JSON: author, star rating, review text, thumbs-up, date, app version, and developer reply. Bulk, no API key.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "npgPc6cUlD8T2jhM0" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/jamhimself~google-play-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-jamhimself-google-play-reviews-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/jamhimself~google-play-reviews-scraper/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-jamhimself-google-play-reviews-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/jamhimself~google-play-reviews-scraper/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-jamhimself-google-play-reviews-scraper", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "appId" ], "properties": { "appId": { "title": "App ID or URL", "type": "string", "description": "The app's package name (e.g. \"com.spotify.music\") or its Google Play URL." }, "maxReviews": { "title": "Max reviews", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of reviews to return.", "default": 200 }, "sort": { "title": "Sort by", "enum": [ "newest", "rating", "relevance" ], "type": "string", "description": "Order to fetch reviews in.", "default": "newest" }, "language": { "title": "Language", "type": "string", "description": "Language code (ISO 639-1), e.g. \"en\".", "default": "en" }, "country": { "title": "Country", "type": "string", "description": "Country code (ISO 3166-1), e.g. \"US\".", "default": "US" }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy settings. Apify Proxy (datacenter) is enough and recommended for IP rotation.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```