# Google Play Reviews Scraper (Android App Reviews & Ratings) (`pagecraft/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Play reviews for any Android app in any country and language: rating, text, date, app version, thumbs up and developer replies, plus app rating, installs and details. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pagecraft/google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Pagecraft Tools](https://apify.com/pagecraft) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 1,000 review scrapeds

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

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

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Play Reviews Scraper: Android App Reviews and Ratings

Scrape **Google Play reviews** for any Android app, in any country and language, without logging in. Get each review's star rating, text, date, app version, thumbs-up count and the **developer's reply**, plus the app's average rating, number of ratings, installs and other details.

### What it does

- Reads Google Play's own reviews feed, 150 reviews per request, for as many reviews as you need (up to 30,000 per app and country).
- Sort by **newest**, **most helpful** or **rating**, and filter by **star rating** and **date**.
- One **app details** row per app and country: name, developer, category, average rating, rating count, review count, installs, content rating, version and last update.
- Many apps and countries in one run.
- Find apps by **app ID** (`com.spotify.music`) or **Play Store link**.

### Who it's for

- **Product and UX teams** tracking what Android users say after each release.
- **Competitor research**: compare ratings and complaints across rival apps and countries.
- **Agencies and analysts** building review dashboards or feeding reviews into AI summaries and sentiment analysis.
- **App marketers** watching ratings and replying faster to negative reviews.

### Input

| Field | What to enter |
| --- | --- |
| Apps | App IDs (`com.spotify.music`) or links (`https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music`) |
| Countries | Two-letter codes, e.g. `us`, `gb`, `de` |
| Language | e.g. `en`, `de`, `fr` |
| Maximum reviews per app and country | Up to 30,000 |
| Sort reviews by | Newest, most helpful or rating |
| Minimum / maximum star rating | e.g. 1 to 2 for complaints |
| Reviews since | Only reviews on or after a date |
| Include app details | On by default |

```json
{ "apps": ["com.spotify.music"], "countries": ["us", "gb"], "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000, "maxRating": 2 }
```

### Output

Review rows:

```json
{
  "type": "review", "appId": "com.example.app", "appName": "Example App", "country": "us",
  "reviewId": "1b2c3d4e-...", "rating": 2, "text": "Keeps crashing since the last update...",
  "author": "Jane D", "date": "2026-10-20T08:15:00.000Z", "thumbsUp": 14, "appVersion": "8.9.1",
  "replyText": "Sorry about this, we're fixing it in the next release.", "replyDate": "2026-10-21T09:00:00.000Z",
  "reviewUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.example.app&reviewId=1b2c3d4e-..."
}
```

App rows (`"type": "app"`) carry `averageRating`, `ratingCount`, `reviewCount`, `installs`, `developer`, `category`, `version` and more.

### Pricing

| Event | When it is charged | Price per 1,000 (Free / Bronze / Silver / Gold plan) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| App checked | Each app and country: the app details row and reading its reviews, once per started 30 seconds or 3 MB (about 2,000 reviews). Also charged when an app is not found. | $2 on every plan |
| Review scraped | Each review returned in the dataset. | $0.15 / $0.13 / $0.12 / $0.10 |

Example: 3 apps in 2 countries with 1,000 reviews each on the Free plan costs about 6 × $0.002 + 6,000 × $0.00015 = $0.91.

Set a **maximum cost per run** in Apify and the scraper stops cleanly when it is reached.

### Notes and limits

- Google Play shows only reviews with written text; star-only ratings are counted in `ratingCount` but are not returned as reviews.
- Reviews differ by country and language. Add the countries you need.
- Google Play does not give review titles, so there is no `title` field.

### More Pagecraft tools

- [App Reviews Scraper (iOS & Android)](https://apify.com/pagecraft/app-reviews-scraper): App Store and Google Play reviews side by side, from just the app name.
- [App Store Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/pagecraft/app-store-reviews-scraper): the same for Apple's App Store, so you can compare iOS and Android.
- [Company Data Enrichment from Domain](https://apify.com/pagecraft/website-intelligence): logo, contacts and tech stack for a list of company websites.
- [Logo & Brand Colours Extractor](https://apify.com/pagecraft/brand-kit-extractor): any company's logo and brand colours from its domain.

# Actor input Schema

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

One per line: a Google Play app ID (com.spotify.music) or the app's Play Store link (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music).

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

Two-letter country codes, e.g. us, gb, de. Each country can show different reviews.

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

Two-letter language code for reviews and app details, e.g. en, de, fr.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many reviews for each app in each country.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

The order Google Play returns reviews in.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

e.g. 4 for positive reviews only.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

e.g. 2 for complaints only. Set minimum and maximum to the same value to filter on Google's side (fastest).

## `reviewsSince` (type: `string`):

Only reviews on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Works best with Newest.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

One row per app and country with name, developer, category, average rating, rating count, installs and version.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. Apify datacenter proxies or your own proxies. Residential proxies are not supported.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "includeAppDetails": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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.spotify.music"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pagecraft/google-play-reviews-scraper").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.spotify.music"],
    "countries": ["us"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pagecraft/google-play-reviews-scraper").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.spotify.music"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}' |
apify call pagecraft/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/laBXROEFVFsbedg0c/builds/McU90sbtwgE8yNuz7/openapi.json