Google Play Scraper API – Apps, Reviews & Search, No Login

Google Play Reviews Scraper API & App Data – $0.06/1K, No Login

A Google Play Store reviews API and app scraper: paste an Android app ID, a Play Store link, a keyword or a developer, click Start, and get the app's store data and its reviews as a table. This actor reads the public Google Play Store the way a logged-out visitor sees it: rating, star histogram, exact install count, price, version, last update, developer, screenshots, and reviews with stars, text, date, the app version the reviewer used, and the developer's reply.

• ✅ No login, no API key, no Google account. Paste com.whatsapp and run.
• 🆓 First run is free: the default input (com.whatsapp, 20 reviews) costs nothing. Click Start to see real Android app reviews in seconds.
• 💰 100 apps and 1,000 reviews free every month, then $0.06 per 1,000 reviews and $0.50 per 1,000 apps
• 🔔 Built for monitoring: "only reviews since 1 day", "only 1★ and 2★ reviews", newest first. Schedule it daily.
• 🎯 Only the reviews you need: filter by keyword (crash, refund) or app version (10.151). You pay only for matches.
• 🔌 Use it as an API: one HTTP call returns JSON, CSV or Excel. Works with n8n, Make, Zapier and AI agents (MCP).

Example rows (real data, US store, 2026-10-28):

type	appId	score	realInstalls	version	text	replyText
app	com.whatsapp	4.62	12,445,173,964	2.26.41.77
review	com.revolut.revolut	1		10.151	"…keeps you logged out for several days…"	"Hi. We take security and data privacy very seriously…"

Independent tool by K-Data Lab. Not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Google. It reads only public Google Play pages (play.google.com) without logging in, and returns only what Google shows there.

🔍 What does Google Play Scraper do?

• App details by app ID or link: com.spotify.music or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music
• Reviews of any app: newest, most relevant or by rating; filter by stars, keyword or app version; only reviews since a date; thousands per app
• Keyword search: the apps Google shows for a search term (up to 30), with their rank. Use it to track ASO keyword positions.
• Developer catalogue: all apps of a developer by name (Spotify AB), numeric ID or developer link
• Any country and language: country = us, gb, de, jp, kr, in, br …; language = en, de, ja, ko, pt-BR …
• Developer replies: the reply text and date come with every review, so you can measure response rate and response time

💡 Why choose this actor?

• 💰 Lower price: reviews at $0.06 per 1,000 and full app records at $0.50 per 1,000. No per-app "review query" fee, and 100 apps + 1,000 reviews free every month.
• 🧩 One actor for apps, reviews, search and developers. You don't need a separate reviews actor.
• 📈 Exact installs (realInstalls, e.g. 12,445,173,964), not only the "10B+" bracket, plus the full 1★–5★ histogram
• 🔔 Monitoring built in: reviewsSince: "1 day" returns only new reviews, so a daily schedule costs cents
• ⚡ Fast and light: plain HTTP, 256 MB, 200 reviews per request (3,000 reviews in about 9 seconds in our tests)
• 🎯 Keyword and version filters: get only reviews that mention crash or subscription, or only those written on the release you just shipped. Each match says which keywords it contains (matchedKeywords).
• 🛡️ Never charged twice: an app found by two inputs is returned and charged once. Apps that don't exist cost nothing.

📥 Input example

{
  "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revolut.revolut"],
  "searchTerms": ["budget planner"],
  "developers": ["Spotify AB"],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 30,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "reviewStars": ["1", "2"],
  "reviewsSince": "30 days",
  "reviewKeywords": ["crash", "refund"],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Field	What it does
appIds	Package names (com.whatsapp) or Google Play app links, one per line
searchTerms	Keywords. Each returns the apps Google shows for it (up to 30) with searchRank
developers	Developer names, numeric developer IDs or developer page links
maxAppsPerSearch	Limit of apps per search term or developer (1–250)
maxReviewsPerApp	Reviews per app. 0 = app details only
reviewsSort	newest, relevant or rating
reviewStars	Only these star ratings, e.g. ["1","2"] for complaints
reviewsSince	Only reviews on or after a date (2026-10-01) or a period (7 days, 2 weeks, 1 month)
reviewKeywords	Only reviews whose text contains one of these words or phrases (not case-sensitive)
reviewAppVersions	Only reviews written on these app versions (10.15 matches 10.15.0, 10.151 …)
onlyReviews	Skip the app records and return just reviews
country / language	Store country (2 letters) and language

🧪 Ready-made inputs

• Daily review monitor: {"appIds": ["com.your.app"], "reviewsSince": "1 day", "maxReviewsPerApp": 5000, "onlyReviews": true}. Schedule it every morning.
• Complaint mining for a competitor: {"appIds": ["com.competitor.app"], "reviewStars": ["1", "2"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 2000, "onlyReviews": true}
• What broke in the new release: {"appIds": ["com.your.app"], "reviewAppVersions": ["2.4.0"], "reviewStars": ["1", "2"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 500, "onlyReviews": true}
• Topic mining: {"appIds": ["com.competitor.app"], "reviewKeywords": ["price", "subscription", "refund"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000, "onlyReviews": true}
• ASO keyword rank tracking: {"searchTerms": ["habit tracker", "to do list"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 0}
• Market map of a niche: {"searchTerms": ["vpn"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 0} returns installs, ratings, prices and developers of the top 30 apps
• A publisher's whole portfolio: {"developers": ["5700313618786177705"], "maxAppsPerSearch": 250, "maxReviewsPerApp": 0}

📤 Output example

App record:

{
  "type": "app",
  "appId": "com.supercell.clashofclans",
  "title": "Clash of Clans",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supercell.clashofclans&hl=en&gl=us",
  "summary": "Epic multiplayer strategy war game. Adventure, build and battle in real time.",
  "score": 4.5137,
  "ratingsCount": 61270348,
  "reviewsCount": 1967187,
  "histogram": {"1": 4315597, "2": 940052, "3": 1849702, "4": 6012449, "5": 48152524},
  "installs": "500,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 500000000,
  "realInstalls": 884755687,
  "free": true,
  "price": 0,
  "currency": "USD",
  "offersInAppPurchases": true,
  "inAppProductPrice": "$0.29 - $239.99 per item",
  "containsAds": false,
  "developer": "Supercell",
  "developerId": "6715068722362591614",
  "developerWebsite": "https://help.supercellsupport.com/clash-of-clans/en/",
  "developerLegalName": "Supercell Oy",
  "privacyPolicyUrl": "https://supercell.com/en/privacy-policy/",
  "genre": "Strategy",
  "genreId": "GAME_STRATEGY",
  "tags": ["Strategy", "Build & battle", "Casual", "Stylized"],
  "contentRating": "Everyone 10+",
  "releasedAt": "2013-09-30T09:09:07Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-20T14:39:36Z",
  "version": "18.647.5",
  "minAndroidVersion": "7.0",
  "recentChanges": "Builder's Been Busy. …",
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/sFmWfYbYp_2ea7…",
  "screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/bmKmkqvuqa…", "…"],
  "video": "https://play.google.com/video/lava/web/player/yt:movie:kDfoPZnC5x0?autoplay=1&embed=play",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Review record:

{
  "type": "review",
  "reviewId": "f7778e78-6546-484e-a7d7-938b6f09ce67",
  "appId": "com.revolut.revolut",
  "userName": "eM Bartyzel",
  "score": 1,
  "text": "Thay copy your biometric give access to scamer keeps you logged out for several days …",
  "date": "2026-10-28T10:38:39Z",
  "thumbsUp": 0,
  "appVersion": "10.151",
  "replyText": "Hi. We take security and data privacy very seriously …",
  "replyDate": "2026-10-28T11:57:14Z",
  "criteria": null,
  "reviewUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.revolut.revolut&reviewId=f7778e78-…",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

The dataset has two views: Apps and Reviews. Filter on type (app / review) when you use the API. RUN_SUMMARY in the key-value store lists every input with its status and counts.

⚠️ When an input returns nothing

• NOT_FOUND: the app ID doesn't exist or the app isn't available in the chosen country. Check the ID in the app's Play link (?id=…).
• NO_APPS_FOUND: the search term or developer has no apps in that country. Developer names must match exactly (Spotify AB, not Spotify).
• INVALID_INPUT: the line is not a package name or Play link.

Nothing is charged for inputs that return nothing.

💰 How much does it cost to scrape Google Play?

Event	Price	Free each month
Review	$0.06 per 1,000 ($0.00006), lower on Bronze/Silver/Gold plans	first 1,000
App (full details)	$0.50 per 1,000 ($0.0005), lower on Bronze/Silver/Gold plans	first 100
Actor start	$0.005 per run

Examples: 10,000 reviews of one app ≈ $0.60. A daily monitor of 5 apps with ~50 new reviews a day ≈ $0.20 a month in reviews (most of it inside the free 1,000) plus $0.005 per run. Set Maximum cost per run in the run options: the actor stops cleanly at that amount and keeps everything scraped so far.

🚀 How to scrape Google Play reviews (step by step)

1. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
2. Paste app IDs or Play links (or search terms / developers).
3. Set Max reviews per app, and optionally the stars and the "since" date.
4. Pick the country and language and click Start.
5. Open the Apps or Reviews view and export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or read the dataset through the API.

📊 Popular use cases

• App review monitoring for product and support teams: new 1★–2★ reviews every morning, with the app version that broke
• Competitor research: what users love or hate about competing apps, and how fast those developers reply
• ASO: keyword rankings, competitor titles, short descriptions, ratings and installs
• Market and investment research: install counts, rating trends and release cadence across a category
• AI and sentiment analysis: clean review text with stars and dates, ready for an LLM or a classifier

🔌 Integrations & API

Run it from any language with one call and get the results back:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/k-data-lab~google-play-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"appIds": ["com.whatsapp"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 100, "reviewsSince": "7 days"}'

• Python / JavaScript: use the apify-client package: client.actor("k-data-lab/google-play-scraper").call(run_input=...)
• No-code: Make, Zapier, n8n and Google Sheets integrations. Use webhooks to post new reviews to Slack or email.
• AI agents: available through the Apify MCP server. Example request: "get the newest 1-star Google Play reviews of com.whatsapp".

💡 Tips

• Reviews are per language: language: "de" returns German reviews. Run one input per market you care about.
• Use reviewsSince for monitoring. It reads newest first and stops at the first older review, so you only pay for new ones.
• reviewsCount is the number of written reviews. Play's "247M reviews" label is ratingsCount.
• Apps Google Play ships as several builds (WhatsApp, Spotify …) have version and minAndroidVersion "Varies with device", as on Play itself. The appVersion of their newest reviews shows the current release.
• With several reviewStars, maxReviewsPerApp is split between them.
• With reviewKeywords or reviewAppVersions, up to 20,000 reviews per app are read to find matches. Reviews that don't match are never returned or charged. Combine with reviewsSince to keep runs short.

🤖 Use it from AI agents (MCP)

Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or n8n a ready-made google-play-scraper tool through Apify's MCP server: the agent reads the input schema, runs this actor and gets the dataset back.

• This actor only: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,docs,k-data-lab/google-play-scraper
• Google set (Google Play + Google Ads Transparency): https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,docs,k-data-lab/google-play-scraper,k-data-lab/google-ad-library-scraper

Claude Code

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,docs,k-data-lab/google-play-scraper"

Claude Desktop: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, paste the same URL.

Cursor / VS Code (.cursor/mcp.json; in .vscode/mcp.json use "servers" and add "type": "http")

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=actors,docs,k-data-lab/google-play-scraper",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" }
    }
  }
}

Try asking

• "Get the 50 newest 1- and 2-star Google Play reviews of com.whatsapp in the US and group the complaints by topic."
• "Search Google Play for "budget planner" and list the top 20 apps with rating, installs and price."
• "Every day, fetch yesterday's reviews of com.spotify.music that mention crash or login."

❓ FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. The actor reads public pages without logging in.

How many reviews can I get per app? As many as Google Play serves for the chosen language and sort, usually thousands. We tested 3,000+ in one run with no duplicates.

Is there a search limit? Google Play shows up to 30 apps per search term (often 15–30). Developer catalogues are read to the end, up to 250 apps.

Does it return developer emails or addresses? No. We return the developer's name, legal name, website and privacy policy, but no personal contact data.

Is scraping Google Play legal? The actor collects only publicly visible data. You are responsible for using it in line with the laws that apply to you and with Google's terms. Don't use review data to identify or contact individual reviewers.

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💬 Feedback

Missing a field or found a wrong value? Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab. We answer the same day.

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