# Google Play App Details — Data Safety, What's New & Installs (`northbell/google-play-app-details`) Actor

Google Play app details: data safety (shared and collected data types), permissions, what's new, version, installs, rating histogram, in-app purchase range and similar apps. Run it again for new releases, rating growth and data safety changes. Package names or URLs, any Play country. No login.

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

## Pricing

from $1.60 / 1,000 apps

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Play App Details — Data Safety, What's New & Installs

Give it package names or Google Play links and get one clean row per app and country: the **data safety lists (what data the app collects and shares, by category)**, **permissions**, **what's new**, **version**, **install bracket**, **the rating with its 1-to-5-star counts**, price, whether it **contains ads**, the **in-app purchase price range**, and **similar apps** for competitor discovery. **$2 per 1,000 apps**, no login, no API key.

Run it again — or put it on a daily schedule — and every row also tells you **what changed since the last run**: a **new release**, **how many ratings were added**, and **any change in the data safety lists**. Google Play only shows today's page; this keeps the memory.

### What you get

| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| `name`, `appId`, `url`, `country`, `language` | the app, as listed in that country and language (`appId` is the package name, e.g. `com.duolingo`) |
| `developer`, `developerId`, `developerUrl` | who publishes it, and the link to the developer's Play page (no email, phone or address) |
| `category`, `categoryId`, `summary` | the category as Google Play shows it in your language (`Education`) and the language-independent one (`EDUCATION`), and the one-line description |
| `rating`, `ratingCount` | the average rating with its decimals (4.732137), not the rounded 4.7 on screen, and how many ratings |
| `ratingHistogram` | number of ratings per star: `{"1": 1026344, "2": 369347, "3": 1132573, "4": 5794678, "5": 41229703}` |
| `installs`, `installsMin`, `installsEstimate` | the download bracket (`500M+`), its number (`500000000`), and the more precise number Google puts in the page data (`981024551`) |
| `price`, `priceText`, `currency`, `isFree` | the price in that country (`0` for a free app), the price as Google writes it (`$6.99`, paid apps only), and its currency |
| `containsAds`, `hasInAppPurchases`, `inAppPurchaseRange` | whether Google Play shows the "Contains ads" label, whether the app has in-app purchases, and their range as written on the page (`$0.99 - $239.99 per item`) |
| `contentRating` | the age rating as Google writes it for that country and language (`Everyone`, `Everyone 10+`) |
| `version`, `updatedAt`, `releasedAt` | the current version, when it was last updated (ISO time) and when the app was first released |
| `whatsNew` | the developer's "What's new" text, line breaks kept |
| `minAndroid`, `minSdk` | the lowest Android version (`8.0`) and its API level (`26`) |
| `chartPosition`, `chartName` | the position when Google shows a "#1 top free education" style badge |
| `dataSafety` | `{collectsData, sharesData, collectedData[], sharedData[], securityPractices[]}` — the data categories the developer declared (`Personal info`, `Location`, `Device or other IDs`…) and the security practices (`Data is encrypted in transit`) |
| `permissions` | `[{group, permissions[]}]` — for example `{"group": "Camera", "permissions": ["take pictures and videos"]}` |
| `similarApps`, `moreByDeveloper` | `[{appId, name}]` — apps Google Play suggests next to this one, and the developer's other apps |
| `newVersionSinceLastRun`, `previousVersion`, `previousUpdatedAt`, `previousObservedAt` | whether there is a new release since your previous run, and what it was before (`null` on the first run) |
| `ratingCountChange` | ratings added since the previous run |
| `dataSafetyChanged`, `dataSafetyChanges` | `true`/`false`, and a list such as `+collected: Location` or `-shared: App activity` (`null` on the first run) |
| `type`, `input`, `observedAt` | `app` or `error`, the text you gave for this app, and when it was read |

### Use it for

- **Privacy and compliance review** — which apps collect or share location, contacts or financial info, and when that changes
- **Competitor watch** — schedule it daily for a set of rival apps and get alerted to a new release, a growing rating count or a changed data safety label
- **Market research** — installs, ratings, price, ads and in-app purchase range for any app, in any country, side by side
- **Finding competitors** — `similarApps` and `moreByDeveloper` give you the neighbours of any app, ready to feed back in as new inputs

### Input

```json
{ "apps": ["com.duolingo", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox"], "countries": ["us", "jp"], "language": "en" }
```

What changed is remembered per app, country and language in a named key-value store in your Apify account, so the second run of the same Actor already shows changes. Schedule it (Apify → Schedules) for a daily log.

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 apps** (one app in one country is one app), plus $0.01 per run. Error rows (apps that do not exist or are not available in a country) are free. The $0.01 run-start fee is the one charge every run pays, even one that returns nothing.

### Notes

- Public data only: what anyone sees on the app's page at play.google.com without signing in. The developer's email address, phone number and postal address are on that page, but this Actor does not read or return them. Emails and phone numbers are also removed from `whatsNew` and `summary`. No reviews or reviewer names are returned — see the rating tracker below.
- **`version` is only filled for apps that publish a version.** Many big apps (Duolingo, WhatsApp, Telegram) ship "Varies with device", and then Google Play shows no version: `version` is `null`. For them `newVersionSinceLastRun` compares the `updatedAt` time instead. For apps with a version, it compares the version text. `minAndroid` and `minSdk` are filled whenever Google Play shows "Requires Android" (Roblox shows `8.0` without a version) and are `null` for most "Varies with device" apps.
- `installs` is a bracket: `500M+` means at least 500 million downloads. `installsEstimate` is a more precise number embedded in the page data and not shown on the page; Google does not say how it is calculated, so treat it as an estimate.
- `dataSafety` is the developer's own declaration, listed by category (not the individual data types or purposes), sorted alphabetically. `sharedData` is empty when the developer says no data is shared, `collectedData` when none is collected; `collectsData` and `sharesData` say the same as true/false. The lists do not depend on the country, so they are read once per app and run. `dataSafety` is `null` when Google Play shows no data safety section or the page could not be read; the rest of the row is still returned, and `dataSafetyChanged` stays `null` rather than reporting a change.
- Text comes back in the `language` you choose (categories, data safety labels, permission names, what's new). The same language has to be used between runs to compare data safety lists, so the memory is kept per app, country and language. The age rating, the price and the chart badge are also written for that country and language.
- Apps nobody has rated yet (small or new apps) have `rating`, `ratingCount`, `ratingHistogram` and `ratingCountChange` as `null`. The five star counts can differ by a few ratings from `ratingCount`.
- `rating` and `ratingHistogram` are Google's figures for the country you ask for (Spotify: 4.47 in Japan, 4.18 in Germany). `ratingCount` is the app's total across countries and is the same, or within a few ratings, in every country, so `ratingCountChange` is a worldwide number too.
- `releasedAt` is `null` for a few apps where the page shows no release date (Google Maps, for one). `priceText` is only filled for paid apps. `containsAds` is `false` when the page shows no "Contains ads" label. `inAppPurchaseRange` is `null` when the app has no in-app purchases. `chartPosition` and `chartName` are only filled when Google shows the chart badge, mostly the top apps of a category.
- `permissions` lists what the page shows under app permissions, grouped as Google groups them. It is `null` when the page has no permission section. `similarApps` and `moreByDeveloper` are what Google Play shows (a handful each) and are empty when it shows nothing. `moreByDeveloper` is often empty for developers with one app.
- A country code Google Play does not have (`zz`) stops the run with an input error before anything is read; `uk` is treated as `gb`. An app that is not published in a country gives a free error row for that country. Use countries where Google Play operates: for a few without a Play store (`cn`, `ir`, `cu`) Google still answers, but with a generic page (prices in USD, no in-app purchase range), and `kp` and `sy` give an error row.
- Google's pages are large, so a run takes about a second per app and country, plus one more for each app's data safety page.

To **search** Google Play and track rank for keywords, see [Google Play Scraper](https://apify.com/northbell/google-play-scraper). For the **reviews** of an app and why a rating moved, use the [Google Play Rating Tracker](https://apify.com/northbell/google-play-rating-tracker). For the same on the Apple App Store, see [App Store App Details](https://apify.com/northbell/app-store-app-details).

### For AI agents

`{"apps": ["com.duolingo"], "countries": ["us"]}` returns one row with the rating histogram, installs, the data safety lists, permissions and what's new. Rows have `type`: `app` or `error`. Call it again with the same input to get `newVersionSinceLastRun`, `ratingCountChange` and `dataSafetyChanged`.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

One app per line: the package name (com.duolingo) or a Google Play app URL (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo). The country or language in a pasted URL is ignored. Use the fields below. Developer, category and search pages are not apps.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter Google Play country codes (us, gb, jp, de…). Each app is read once per country, and each app in each country is one billed result. Price, currency, ratings and availability can differ by country.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Google Play language code for the text: en, de, ja, pt-BR, es-419… Category names, data safety labels, permissions and what's new are returned in this language, so keep it the same between runs when you compare changes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.duolingo"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

Version, installs, rating, data safety, permissions, what's new and what changed since the last run.

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "com.duolingo"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "language": "en"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("northbell/google-play-app-details").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 = {
    "apps": ["com.duolingo"],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "language": "en",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("northbell/google-play-app-details").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "com.duolingo"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en"
}' |
apify call northbell/google-play-app-details --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/cStj8JMNjKzyWEDbi/builds/o0Hw420HfnQSz68iN/openapi.json