Google Play Store Scraper

A fast Google Play Store API alternative. Search apps by keyword, get full app details by ID or URL, list every app of a developer, find similar apps, scrape top charts (top free, top paid, top grossing) for any category, and collect user reviews. Installs, rating and histogram, price, last update, version, developer email/website/address, screenshots. Any country and language, no browser, results in clean JSON.

Independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC. It reads the same public data you see on play.google.com.

What you get

One row per app (real result, shortened):

{
  "type": "app",
  "appId": "com.spotlightsix.zentimerlite2",
  "title": "Insight Timer - Meditation App",
  "developer": "Insight Network Inc",
  "score": 4.697897,
  "ratings": 263164,
  "installs": "10,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 10000000,
  "priceText": "Free",
  "offersIAP": true,
  "IAPRange": "$1.99 - $199.99 per item",
  "genre": "Health & Fitness",
  "version": "20.37.0",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-15T14:52:11.000Z",
  "developerEmail": "help@insighttimer.com",
  "developerWebsite": "https://insighttimer.com",
  "developerLegalAddress": "3020 Bridgeway Pmb 470, Sausalito, CA 94965-1439, United States",
  "screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/jLCw4Aqw9zXk..."],
  "source": "search",
  "query": "meditation app",
  "rank": 1,
  "country": "us"
}

And, if you turn reviews on, one row per review:

{
  "type": "review",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "score": 1,
  "text": "I'm connected to wifi but it still says no connection",
  "date": "2026-10-16T12:12:38.442Z",
  "thumbsUp": 0,
  "replyText": null
}

Try it in 1 click: the prefilled example runs in under a minute. Press Start with the prefilled search ("meditation app", 10 apps with full details): in our test it finished in 7 seconds at 512 MB and costs $0.018 on the Apify Free plan (less on paid plans).

Price: from $1.84 per 1,000 apps and $0.92 per 1,000 reviews on the Apify Free plan, down to $0.45 and $0.22 on Diamond. Platform usage included, no start fee.

Why this Google Play scraper

• All sources in one run: keywords, app IDs/URLs, developers, similar apps and top charts together, each app returned once even if several sources list it.
• Apps and reviews in one actor: details and reviews in the same run, filtered by star rating if you want only complaints (1 star) or praise (5 stars).
• Simple, predictable price: platform usage included, no start fee. 20% cheaper per app and per review than automation-lab/google-play-scraper on every plan.
• Reliable: every request retries through a fresh proxy session; one bad app never fails the run, it is skipped, listed in the FAILED record and not billed.
• Drop-in compatible: accepts the input field names of the two most used young Google Play actors (searchQueries, appIdsOrUrls, developerIds, similarToAppIds, includeCollection, collectionChart, collectionCategory, maxResultsPerQuery, countryCode, fullDetail... and mode, searchTerms, appIds, chartCollection, chartCategory, maxResults, country, reviewSort, reviewScore) and keeps their output field names.

What you can do with it

• ASO and keyword research: see which apps rank for a keyword in any country, with ratings, installs and last update.
• Competitor tracking: monitor a competitor's rating, installs, version and release notes; schedule it daily.
• Review mining and sentiment: thousands of reviews per app for product feedback, bug reports and LLM analysis.
• Lead generation: developer email, website and legal address of apps in a niche (public data shown on each app page).
• Market research: top free, paid and grossing charts by category and country.
• AI agents and dashboards: one clean JSON object per app or review, ready for LLMs, BI tools and spreadsheets.

Input

{
  "searchQueries": ["meditation app", "sleep tracker"],
  "appIdsOrUrls": ["com.whatsapp", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo"],
  "developerIds": ["Google LLC"],
  "similarToAppIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "includeCollection": true,
  "collectionChart": "topgrossing",
  "collectionCategory": "GAME",
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
  "language": "en",
  "countryCode": "us",
  "fullDetail": true,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "reviewSort": "newest"
}

Field	What it does
searchQueries	Keywords, like the Play Store search box. Google returns at most ~30 apps per query.
appIdsOrUrls	Package names or Play Store URLs; always full details.
developerIds	Developer name, numeric id or developer page URL: all their apps.
similarToAppIds	The "Similar apps" Google Play shows for each app.
includeCollection, collectionChart, collectionCategory	Top free / top paid / top grossing chart for a category (all 50+ Play categories, games included).
maxResultsPerQuery	Max apps per query, developer or chart (default 100).
language, countryCode	hl and gl of Google Play: prices, currency, rankings, translated texts and reviews of that market.
fullDetail	Open each app page (installs, histogram, update date, description, contacts, screenshots). Off = fast ranking-only list.
includeScreenshots, includeDeveloperContact	Drop screenshot/video URLs or developer contact fields if you don't need them.
includeReviews, maxReviewsPerApp, reviewSort, reviewScore	Reviews per app, sorted by newest, most relevant or rating, optionally only one star rating.
maxConcurrency, proxyConfiguration	Parallel requests (default 10) and proxy (datacenter by default).

Output

App (type: "app"): appId, title, url, appUrl, developer, developerId, developerUrl, score, scoreText, ratings, reviews, histogram and histogram1star…histogram5star, installs, minInstalls, maxInstalls (realInstalls), free, price, currency, priceText, originalPrice, offersIAP, IAPRange (inAppProductPrice), summary, description, descriptionHTML, genre, genreId, categories, contentRating, adSupported (containsAds), available, preregister, earlyAccessEnabled, androidVersion, androidVersionText, version, released, updated (ms) and updatedAt (ISO), recentChanges, developerEmail, developerWebsite, developerAddress, developerLegalName, developerLegalEmail, developerLegalAddress, developerLegalPhoneNumber (developerPhone), privacyPolicy, icon, headerImage, screenshots, video, videoImage, plus source (search / appId / developer / similar / topChart), query, rank, chartRank, language, country, scrapedAt.

With fullDetail off, rows from searches, developers, similar apps and charts carry only the list fields (appId, title, developer, score, price, icon, summary, rank).

Review (type: "review"): appId, appTitle, reviewId, userName, userImage, score, scoreText, title, text, date, thumbsUp, version, replyText, replyDate, criterias, url, language, country.

Pricing

Pay per result, platform usage included, no start fee. The price depends on your Apify plan:

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
App (with full details)	$0.00184	$0.0016	$0.00124	$0.00096	$0.00064	$0.000448
Review	$0.00092	$0.0008	$0.000624	$0.00048	$0.00032	$0.000224

Examples on the Free plan: the top 100 games of a chart with full details = $0.18; 1,000 reviews of one app = $0.92. Set a maximum total charge to cap spending; the actor stops cleanly when it is reached.

Migrating from other Google Play actors

Both input styles below work unchanged; just switch the actor ID to lagenuina_agency/google-play-scraper.

solidcode/google-play-apps-scraper	automation-lab/google-play-scraper	This actor
searchQueries	mode: "search" + searchTerms	searchQueries (both accepted)
appIdsOrUrls	mode: "details" + appIds	appIdsOrUrls (both accepted)
developerIds	(not available)	developerIds
similarToAppIds	(not available)	similarToAppIds
includeCollection, collectionChart, collectionCategory	mode: "topCharts", chartCollection (top-free…), chartCategory	Both accepted
maxResultsPerQuery	maxResults	Both accepted
language, countryCode	language, country	Both accepted
fullDetail, includeScreenshots, includeDeveloperContact	(always on)	Same as solidcode
(no reviews)	mode: "reviews", reviewSort, reviewScore	Same, or includeReviews to get apps and reviews together

Output: the field names in both actors' README examples are kept (appId, title, appUrl, url, developerUrl, realInstalls, inAppProductPrice, containsAds, developerPhone, histogram1star…, updatedAt, chartRank, chartCollection, chartCategory, reviewId, scoreText…). Differences: updated is a timestamp in ms (use updatedAt for ISO), categories is a list of {name, id}, size and dataSafety are not returned.

Price per 1,000 results (public Apify Store prices, checked on 17 October 2026):

Apify plan	automation-lab apps / reviews	solidcode apps (no reviews)	This actor apps / reviews
Free	$2.30 / $1.15 + $0.005 per run	$0.60 + $0.01 per run per GB	$1.84 / $0.92
Bronze	$2.00 / $1.00	$0.56	$1.60 / $0.80
Silver	$1.55 / $0.78	$0.53	$1.24 / $0.62
Gold	$1.20 / $0.60	$0.50	$0.96 / $0.48
Platinum	$0.80 / $0.40	$0.50	$0.64 / $0.32
Diamond	$0.56 / $0.28	$0.50	$0.45 / $0.22

solidcode/google-play-apps-scraper costs less per app on most plans but has no reviews; if you only need app lists, compare the total cost of the same input on your own runs.

Limits / not supported

• ~30 apps per search query: Google Play itself shows only ~30 results per search and no further pages. For more apps, add keyword variations, developers or top charts.
• Top charts go up to ~200 apps; "Similar apps" returns what Google shows (often 4–50).
• Reviews: Google serves them newest-first in pages of 150; a star filter (reviewScore) reads pages until enough matching reviews are found, so rare ratings take longer.
• Results come in parallel: use rank / chartRank for the original order.
• Not returned: app size, data safety section, permissions, pre-registration counts. No login, no paid/private data.
• An app that is not available in the chosen country returns a 404 and is listed in FAILED (not billed).

Use it from AI agents (MCP)

This actor is a ready-made tool for any MCP client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, custom agents) through the Apify MCP server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=lagenuina_agency/google-play-scraper" }
  }
}

Ask things like "Which meditation apps rank top in Germany and when were they last updated?", "Summarise the last 300 one-star reviews of com.spotify.music" or "List the top grossing puzzle games in Japan with their developers' emails".

Integrations and API

Call it from your code with the official Apify clients (full runnable examples: github.com/assa83/google-play-scraper-api):

# pip install apify-client
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("lagenuina_agency/google-play-scraper").call(run_input={"searchQueries": ["meditation app"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 10})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["title"], item["score"], item["installs"])

// npm i apify-client
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('lagenuina_agency/google-play-scraper').call({ appIdsOrUrls: ['com.whatsapp'], includeReviews: true, maxReviewsPerApp: 100 });
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

No-code: use the Apify app in n8n, Make or Zapier (action "Run Actor", pick lagenuina_agency/google-play-scraper), or the langchain-apify / CrewAI ApifyActorsTool integrations for AI agents. Results can also be pushed to Google Sheets, Slack, webhooks or any S3 bucket via Apify integrations.

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FAQ

Is there an official Google Play Store API for app data? Google's Play Developer API only covers your own apps. To read public data of any app (ratings, installs, reviews, rankings) you need a scraper like this one.

Can I scrape Google Play reviews? Yes: turn on includeReviews (or use mode: "reviews"), choose how many per app, the sort order and optionally a star rating. Each review is one row.

How do I get app installs and ratings for many apps? Put the package names in appIdsOrUrls (hundreds per run) or start from a keyword, developer or top chart.

Does it work for other countries and languages? Yes, any Play Store market: set countryCode (prices, currency, rankings) and language (texts and reviews).

Why do I get only ~30 apps per keyword? That is all Google Play shows for one search. Use several related keywords; duplicates are removed automatically.

Is the google-play-scraper npm / Python library enough? For a few calls, yes. This actor adds proxy rotation, retries, parallel runs, scheduling, storage and integrations, so it keeps working at scale without your own servers.

Is scraping Google Play legal? The actor reads publicly available data shown to every visitor. You are responsible for how you use it (especially developer contact details and reviewer names); check your local laws and Google's terms.

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