📱 Google Play Reviews Scraper — All Countries, Filters, Replies

Scrape Google Play reviews for any Android app — by package ID, Play Store URL or a search term — across one or many countries in a single run. Each row carries the star rating, text, thumbs-up count, app version, date, author handle and the developer's reply. Filter by rating, keywords, developer-reply state, a date range or the last N days before anything is billed. Watch mode on a schedule delivers only new reviews.

• Many markets at once: languages: ["en","es","pt","de"] reads each language's reviews in one run (Google Play groups reviews by language, not country); add countries of the same length to set each storefront.
• Rolling window: recent_days: 7 on a daily schedule gives you only the last week's reviews.
• No login, no API key, no CAPTCHA solving: Google Play's public review pages, read logged-out.

Output is one row per review; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one review scraped (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.0001 per review scraped). Source: play.google.com.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out.

Who buys this

• Android product teams reading Google Play reviews for their own app and competitors' apps without copying them by hand.
• App marketers and ASO teams tracking ratings and complaints in Android app reviews release by release.
• Customer-support teams finding unanswered Google Play reviews (developer_reply: unanswered).
• Analysts feeding Android app reviews into a sentiment or BI pipeline.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run 5gjBXnmarciTWpwPA on build 0.1.32 (2026-09-28), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

store	app_id	review_id	review_text	author_handle	review_date
google_play	com.spotify.music	b6047746-dca7-4c3e-a058-7e16636b94b0	muy buena aplicación de musica, me gusta mucho que a fin de año te dic	Josue Jara	2026-09-27T19:07:13
google_play	com.spotify.music	7abf7e74-6257-4a30-8dab-2763dbb66205	awesome 😎	jeet Mehra	2026-09-27T19:07:57
google_play	com.spotify.music	6b063f18-9786-44f0-92cd-7d786774aa51	you moved me from Pandora	bobbywomech Mcneal	2026-09-27T19:08:42
google_play	com.spotify.music	fdb93f67-0016-484b-a9cb-aaea3d1d3b21	incredible app	Arya	2026-09-27T19:11:09
google_play	com.spotify.music	6697cc24-d57d-4c8c-bcd8-dd2d93878ef0	☺️☺️	Mélanie Mazerolle	2026-09-27T19:18:54
google_play	com.spotify.music	084aabe8-60ee-4cc0-b4aa-e04ba13fda06	Best app for listening to music	ЛайтрикGames	2026-09-27T19:23:50
google_play	com.spotify.music	0288695a-a705-4791-a3a0-19479c31040f	the best apps ever..	Ariel Daohug	2026-09-27T19:25:59
google_play	com.spotify.music	06bf3060-cf13-4c85-80eb-a45a8c0ae113	remove subscription or add varity type of payment app and for teenager	Lohit Dongri	2026-09-27T19:27:42

The run finished with the status message: SUCCEEDED: emitted 25 item(s)

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• store (string/null) — Output field: store
• app_id (string/null) — Output field: app_id
• review_id (string/null) — Output field: review_id
• title (string/null) — Output field: title
• review_text (string/null) — Output field: review_text
• rating (number/null) — Output field: rating
• thumbs_up (number/null) — Output field: thumbs_up
• author_handle (string/null) — Output field: author_handle
• review_date (string/null) — Output field: review_date
• version (string/null) — Output field: version
• developer_response (string/null) — Output field: developer_response
• developer_response_date (string/null) — Output field: developer_response_date
• country (string/null) — Output field: country
• source_url (string/null) — Output field: source_url
• collected_at (string/null) — Output field: collected_at

What you get

• Public Google Play reviews: rating, title, text, thumbs-up count, author, date, and app version
• Developer replies and reply dates where present
• A normalized 15-field record per review with source URL and collection timestamp
• An isolated open-source adapter with a fresh process and proxy environment on every retry
• Optional watch mode that emits only new reviews and status changes on later runs

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "app_ids": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "max_items": 10,
  "watchMode": false,
  "sort": "newest"
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 25 × $0.0001 review-scraped + 0 × $0.10 watch-check = $0.0238 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

2. A smaller, narrowed run

{
  "app_ids": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "max_items": 5,
  "watchMode": false,
  "sort": "newest"
}

Caps the run at 5 rows — about $0.0208 on the Free tier ($0.02 start + 5 × $0.0001). country narrows what the source is asked for.

3. Optional watch mode (changes only, for a schedule)

{
  "app_ids": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "max_items": 10,
  "watchMode": true,
  "sort": "newest"
}

The first run seeds a private baseline and emits zero deltas; every later run emits one row per change, billed at $0.0001 each.

4. Several markets (languages), last 30 days, 1–2 stars only

{
  "app_ids": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en",
    "pt",
    "es"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us",
    "br",
    "mx"
  ],
  "recent_days": 30,
  "min_rating": 1,
  "max_rating": 2,
  "max_items": 100,
  "sort": "newest"
}

Low-star reviews from the last 30 days across three countries — what is going wrong for users right now, per market.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run 5gjBXnmarciTWpwPA, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "store": "google_play",
  "app_id": "com.spotify.music",
  "review_id": "b6047746-dca7-4c3e-a058-7e16636b94b0",
  "title": null,
  "review_text": "muy buena aplicación de musica, me gusta mucho que a fin de año te dice cuantos minutos escuchaste, cuales fueron tus artistas principales. tu canción principales y etc. Lo recomiendo.",
  "rating": 5,
  "thumbs_up": 0,
  "author_handle": "Josue Jara",
  "review_date": "2026-09-27T19:07:13",
  "version": "9.1.84.2231",
  "developer_response": null,
  "developer_response_date": null,
  "country": "us",
  "source_url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music",
  "collected_at": "2026-09-28T20:51:32.289479+00:00"
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads play.google.com — endpoints: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details, https://play.google.com/store/search. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Requests go through Apify residential proxy.

Watch semantics. Snapshot mode (watchMode: false) returns a preview. Watch mode keys every record on a source-native id, stores a private baseline in a named key-value store, and on each later run emits one delta row per change (new / changed / removed). A blocked fetch is never diffed, so a source outage cannot show up as a mass removal.

Terminal states. A run ends NORMAL, CAPPED (your cap was reached), PARTIAL (something was withheld and the message says what), GENUINE_EMPTY (the source was read and truly had nothing in scope) or BLOCKED (the source refused or changed shape — the run FAILS loud and bills nothing). A zero-row run is never reported as a silent success.

Charging. Each review scraped is charged at the moment it is pushed (review-scraped); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

Transport. Requests go through Apify residential proxy.

🔧 How it works

Transport. Requests go through Apify residential proxy.

🔧 How it works

Transport. Requests go through Apify residential proxy.

🔧 How it works

Transport. Requests go through Apify residential proxy.

How it works

Give it one or more Google Play package IDs (e.g. com.spotify.music). An isolated open-source adapter collects the public reviews for each — a fresh process and proxy per retry — and normalizes them into one 15-field schema that mirrors the Apple reviews actor. Public, logged-out surfaces only.

Compliance & honest limits

• Public Google Play review surfaces only — no login, CAPTCHA, paywall, or access-control defeating.
• Google Play exposes a bounded review window per app and country; full lifetime history is not reconstructed.
• A source-confirmed empty result is SUCCEEDED-0: GENUINE_EMPTY; exhausted block retries fail and truncated runs are PARTIAL.

About

Part of the NexGen Watch App Intelligence cluster, sharing one honest contract across iOS and Android. Questions or need a custom feed? Open an issue on the Actor page.

Preview vs Watch mode

• Preview (watchMode = false): a one-shot pull of the current reviews — emitted and charged per review-scraped record. Keeps no baseline.
• Watch (watchMode = true): change detection — seeds a private baseline on the first run (zero deltas, no review-scraped billing), then on later runs emits only the new reviews since the baseline, plus one watch-check per run. A settled run with no new reviews reports WATCH_NO_DELTA and charges only the watch-check.

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

⏰ Optional: run it on a schedule

A single run returns the current records. If you also want to be told what changed over time, open the actor in Apify Console → Schedules → Create new, add this actor with the watch-mode input above (watchMode: true) so each run returns only the changes, and pick a cadence:

• Daily — 0 7 * * * (07:00 UTC): catch changes within a day.
• Weekly — 0 7 * * 1: a Monday digest.

Each run is independent; keep the same input on the schedule so the results stay comparable. Schedules can also POST results to a webhook (Console → Integrations).

⏰ Optional: run it on a schedule

⏰ Optional: run it on a schedule

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Review scraped (review-scraped)	$0.0001	$0.0001	$0.0001	$0.0001
Watch check (watch-check)	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08	$0.067

Worked at the live Free-tier price (watch mode, one delta per change):

• 8 review scrapeds: $0.02 start + 8 × $0.0001 = $0.0212
• 25 review scrapeds: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.0001 = $0.0238
• 100 review scrapeds: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.0001 = $0.035

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 1024 MB.

Yield on the sample run: SUCCEEDED: emitted 25 item(s). max_items is a hard ceiling on what is delivered and billed, never a target.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by play.google.com. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (play.google.com) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input (in watch mode the first run always seeds the baseline and returns zero deltas); BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How many rows can one run return?
A: Up to max_items (default 100). Raise the cap for a bigger run; you pay per delivered row.

Q: What does watch mode remember between runs?
A: A private baseline of source-native record ids in a named key-value store. Each later run diffs the live source against it and emits only changes.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs except the watch baseline. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other app store intelligence actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers play.google.com. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Status says CAPPED → your cap (max_items) was reached → raise it for a bigger run.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.
• First watch run shows no deltas → expected: it seeds the baseline; changes appear from the second run.

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• 🏢 About NexGen Watch — NexGen Watch is a catalog of more than 300 public data actors built on official sources, pay-per-result. Browse the catalog at apify.com/nexgenwatch.

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