# Google Play Listing Freshness by Package ID (`jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief`) Actor

Check when exact Android app listings were last updated on Google Play. Return update age and a user-defined freshness decision for each app. US English storefront; no reviews or personal data. Unofficial.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief.md
- **Developed by:** [h ichi](https://apify.com/jpmarketdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Marketing
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.20 / 1,000 listing freshness createds

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 Listing Freshness by Package ID

> **Unofficial** — independent tool, **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google Play**. It reads only publicly visible pages. Support, reliability guarantees and the full disclaimer are at the bottom of this page.

Check the public Google Play listing update date for exact Android package IDs in the US English storefront. This is a listing freshness signal, not an APK version or device rollout guarantee.

### Input

Supply 1–10 package IDs, recentDays from 1–365 (default 30), and maxItems from 1–10 (default 3). Validate all inputs first, deduplicate in input order, then select the bounded prefix.

### Output

Each validated app produces one row with its published listing update date, UTC calendar-day age and updatedWithinRecentDays = age <= recentDays. The example is illustrative, not a fixed live-date assertion.

### Limits

Use only public /store/apps/details HTML after robots verification. Validate exact package identity through the single SoftwareApplication JSON-LD record and require one unambiguous visible Updated on date. Cap each response at 2 MiB, allow at most ten detail requests plus robots, pace requests at least one second apart, run within 180 seconds and 256 MB. Missing apps, 403/consent blocks, 429, timeouts, identity conflicts, missing or malformed dates and future dates fail explicitly. Validate all selected source records before delivery. No search, review RPC, browser, proxy or paid source.

### Privacy

Emit only public application facts. Never persist raw HTML, review text, users, developer contacts, descriptions or images. Google Play is the source; this Actor is unaffiliated with Google. A Store listing date does not prove when an APK reached every device.

### Pricing

Charge one listing-freshness-created PPE event at $0.0012 for each delivered dataset row. No start or secondary event. Already delivered rows remain billable if a later dataset write fails.

### If something goes wrong

- **Wrong number or a failed run?** Open a ticket on the **Issues** tab. I read every one and reply within 2 business days (Japan time).
- **You never get a fake "empty" result.** If the site can't be read, the run fails and says so.
  One delivered listing freshness row is one billable event. Source failures before delivery have no event charge; earlier delivered rows remain billable after a later write failure.
- **Checked every week.** An automatic test runs this tool weekly; if the site changes, I fix it.
- **Public pages only.** No login, no personal data, and it goes easy on the site.

### More tools by the same author

- [Mercari Japan Sold Prices — What Items Really Sell For](https://apify.com/jpmarketdata/mercari-japan-price-checker)
- [Yahoo! Auctions Japan Sold Prices — Median, Range, Bids](https://apify.com/jpmarketdata/yahoo-auction-sold-comps)

All tools (Japan marketplaces, real estate, jobs, racing, prediction markets): <https://apify.com/jpmarketdata>

### Disclaimer

Unofficial, independent tool — **not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google Play**. Product names and logos belong to their owners and only say where the data comes from. Data is read from public pages, for market research; check before you act on it.

# Actor input Schema

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

One to ten exact package IDs. US English Google Play details only.

## `recentDays` (type: `integer`):

A listing is recent when its published update date is at most this many UTC calendar days old.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum unique package IDs to check in input order.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIds": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "com.whatsapp",
    "com.instagram.android"
  ],
  "recentDays": 30,
  "maxItems": 3
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "appIds": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "com.whatsapp",
        "com.instagram.android"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief").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 = { "appIds": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "com.whatsapp",
        "com.instagram.android",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief").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 '{
  "appIds": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "com.whatsapp",
    "com.instagram.android"
  ]
}' |
apify call jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,jpmarketdata/google-play-listing-freshness-brief"
        }
    }
}
```

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/gKvSn0Yn0jlP2MdHl/builds/eJqPIKVmQ3M56cqce/openapi.json