Google Play Reviews Scraper: Device, Star Filter & Replies

Get the reviews of an Android app on Google Play with the device each one was written on (phone, tablet, desktop, TV, watch or car), the reviewer's account id, the stars, text, date, app version, helpful votes and the developer's reply. Filter by star rating, and choose the language, the country and the order. No Google account, login or cookies needed.

Tested daily. Latest checks: 6,000 reviews of three apps in about 3 minutes; one app's whole Vietnamese review list, 1,172 reviews, read to its end.

What does this Actor do?

You give it links to Google Play app pages (or just package names like com.duolingo). For each app it reads the written reviews in the language and country you choose, newest first (or by relevance or rating), and saves one row per review until it reaches your limit or the end of the list.

Each review comes with:

• the star rating and the review text
• the exact date and time it was written
• the device it was written on: phone, tablet, desktop, TV, watch, car or XR headset
• the reviewer's display name, account id and profile picture
• the app version the reviewer was using
• how many people found it helpful
• the developer's reply and its date, if there is one

Why use it?

• Know what users say. Track complaints and praise on your own app, or a competitor's, in every language you ship in.
• Catch problems after a release. Filter on 1- and 2-star reviews, sort by newest and run it daily: the app version on each review shows which release broke something, and the device shows whether it is the phone, tablet or desktop build.
• Check your support. See which reviews got a developer reply, and when.
• Use the data anywhere. Download as JSON, CSV or Excel, or send it to your own tools through Apify's API and integrations.

How to use it

1. Paste one or more app links into App links.
2. Set the Language and Country of the reviews you want.
3. Optionally, set Max reviews per app, the Order and a Star rating.
4. Click Start. When the run ends, open the Output tab to view the reviews or download them.

Run it with no input to see a sample: up to 50 US reviews each of Duolingo and Spotify, charged as usual.

Apps that work

Any app page on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo. Extra parameters in the link (&hl=de&gl=DE) are fine but ignored: the Language and Country fields decide which reviews are read. A package name on its own (com.duolingo) works too. Search, developer and category pages are not supported, and neither are games' or apps' reviews on other app stores.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
App links (startUrls)	The apps to read. Required.	—
Language (language)	The reviews' language: en, de, vi, pt-BR, …	en
Country (country)	The Google Play country: us, gb, de, vn, …	us
Max reviews per app (maxReviewsPerApp)	Stop reading an app after this many reviews, from 1 to 10,000	100
Order (sortBy)	newest, relevance or rating	newest
Star rating (starRating)	all, or 1 to 5 for only reviews with that many stars	all

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo" }],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "starRating": "all"
}

Output

One row per review. An example, with made-up values:

{
  "review_id": "9a1c2b3d-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "app_id": "com.duolingo",
  "app_url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "reviewer_name": "Jane Doe",
  "reviewer_id": "100000000000000000001",
  "reviewer_avatar": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/…",
  "rating": 4,
  "review_title": null,
  "review_text": "Great for daily practice, but the hearts system is annoying.",
  "review_date": "2026-10-12T06:25:53Z",
  "thumbs_up": 12,
  "app_version": "6.12.3",
  "device": "phone",
  "review_criteria": [{ "criteria": "vaf_example_easy_to_use", "answer": 1, "stars": null }],
  "developer_reply": "Thanks for the feedback! We're always improving.",
  "developer_reply_author": "Example Apps Ltd",
  "developer_reply_date": "2026-10-13T09:00:00Z"
}

Field	What it holds
review_id	Google Play's id for the review
app_id	The app's package name
app_url	The app's Google Play page
language, country	The language and country the review was read in
reviewer_name	The reviewer's display name
reviewer_id	The reviewer's Google account id
reviewer_avatar	Link to the reviewer's profile picture
rating	Stars, 1 to 5
review_title	The review's title, when it has one (a few games ask for one; usually empty)
review_text	The review's text. Rarely empty: a review with stars only
review_date	When it was written, in UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ)
thumbs_up	How many people found the review helpful
app_version	The app version the reviewer was using. Empty when Google Play does not say
device	The device it was written on: phone, tablet, desktop, tv, watch, car or xr_headset. Empty for a device Google Play does not name
review_criteria	The reviewer's answers to the questions Google Play asks about some apps (a game's gameplay or graphics, say): Google Play's name for each question, the option picked as a number, or the stars given. Often empty
developer_reply	The developer's reply, if any
developer_reply_author	The name the developer's reply is signed with
developer_reply_date	When the developer replied, in UTC

Not included: the app's details (title, installs, overall rating).

How much does it cost?

No surcharges and no paid options; an item that fails is not charged.

You pay for what you get:

• $0.10 per 1,000 reviews ($0.0001 a review). Each review is charged once per run.
• No start fee.

So 2,000 reviews of one app cost $0.20. If you set a maximum cost for a run, the Actor stops when it reaches it and keeps every review saved so far.

How long does a run take?

Expect about 1,500–2,000 reviews a minute. In testing, 6,000 reviews of three apps took about 3 minutes.

Good to know

• Each language is a separate list. Google Play shows an app's reviews per language: reading en returns the English reviews only. To cover more languages, run once per language.
• The review count on the app page is larger than what you get. That number counts star ratings too; ratings without text have nothing to read.
• Language and country. Tested with English in the US and in Singapore and with Vietnamese in Vietnam; other codes are passed to Google Play as they are.
• Up to 10,000 reviews per app. The largest run tested read 2,000 reviews from each of three apps.
• Check your links first. A link that is not a Google Play app link, or a language or country code that is not one, stops the run before anything is read, and the message names it.
• One app that cannot be read does not stop the run. The other apps carry on, and the run's status lists the apps that could not be read. The run fails only when no app could be read.
• No reviews is not an error. An app with no written reviews in that language saves nothing. Google Play answers a package name that does not exist the same way, so a mistyped package name also saves nothing rather than failing: check the link opens the app you meant.
• Running it daily? Sort by newest and remove repeats by review_id.

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Use it from an AI agent or the API

One call starts a run and returns its items (Apify waits up to 300 seconds; for a longer run, start it with POST /v2/acts/…/runs and read its dataset):

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

With the sample input as its JSON body:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "starRating": "all"
}

Its inputs, in the order of the input form:

Input	What it takes	Default
startUrls (App links)	Links to Google Play app pages (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…), or package names such as com.duolingo, e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music.	—
language (Language)	The language of the reviews to read, as a code: en, de, vi, pt-BR, … Google Play shows each language's reviews separately, so a run reads one language; run once per language for more.	"en"
country (Country)	The Google Play country, as a two-letter code: us, gb, de, vn, … It applies to every app in the run, whatever a link says.	"us"
maxReviewsPerApp (Max reviews per app)	Stop reading an app after this many reviews, from 1 to 10,000; default 100 (the form starts at 50).	100
sortBy (Order)	Newest reviews first, Google Play's own relevance order, or by rating.	"newest"
starRating (Star rating)	Only reviews with this many stars, or all reviews: all, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; default all.	"all"

Apify's MCP server, https://mcp.apify.com, lists it as luzivanlt/google-play-reviews-scraper. To give an AI agent this Actor as a tool, add the server to the agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=luzivanlt/google-play-reviews-scraper"
    }
  }
}

The client signs in with OAuth, or add "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <APIFY_TOKEN>" }.

Charged per review delivered; the sample input above costs at most $0.01.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or cookies? No. The Actor reads the reviews anyone can see on the app's page.

Can I get reviews from the Apple App Store? Not with this Actor: it reads Google Play only.

Can I run it from my own code, on a schedule, or with other apps? Yes. Like any Apify Actor, you can start it through the Apify API, run it on a schedule, and connect it to other apps with Apify's integrations and webhooks.

Is it legal to scrape Google Play?

This Actor reads only reviews that anyone can see without logging in. The results include reviewers' display names, account ids and profile pictures, which can be personal data protected by laws such as the GDPR. Only collect personal data when you have a legitimate reason to, and check Google Play's terms and the laws that apply to you. If you are unsure, ask a lawyer.

Support

Found a problem or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Issues tab and include the run's link.

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