Google Play Store Versioning

What does Google Play Store Versioning do?

Google Play Store Versioning enables you to retrieve version information from Google Play Store for your specified apps. This Actor takes an array of app package names and returns their current version numbers, last update dates, and official app names.

Google Play Store Versioning can retrieve:

• Current version number
• Last update date
• Original release date
• App name
• Diagnostic metadata and warnings when extraction is ambiguous

Why scrape Google Play Store?

Google Play Store hosts millions of apps and is a crucial platform for Android app distribution. Tracking app versions is essential for developers, QA teams, and businesses that need to monitor app updates across their portfolio or competitors.

Here are just some of the ways you could use this data:

• Monitor your app's version releases and update frequency
• Track competitor app versions and release cycles
• Verify app version deployments across your application portfolio
• Automate version tracking for compliance and auditing purposes
• Build version history reports for your development team

How to scrape Google Play Store

It's easy to get version information from Google Play Store with Google Play Store Versioning. Just follow these few steps and you'll get your data in minutes.

1. Click on Try for free.
2. Enter an array of app package names you want to look up (for example: [\"com.ubercab.driver\", \"com.spotify.music\"]). Optionally enable debug mode for detailed logs.
3. Click on Run.
4. When Google Play Store Versioning has finished, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab.

How much will it cost to scrape Google Play Store?

Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free Plan. Since this Actor is lightweight and performs targeted lookups, you can retrieve data for many apps with minimal credit usage, making it very cost-effective even on the free plan.

If you need to continuously monitor app versions, consider the Apify Starter plan at $49/month, which provides ample credits for regular version tracking tasks.

Results

Here is a sample of the data that the Actor produces:

{
  "package": "com.ubercab.driver",
  "name": "Uber - Driver: Drive & Deliver",
  "version": "4.553.10004",
  "last_updated": "2026-06-26",
  "created": "2014-11-14",
  "script_index": 26,
  "script_score": 12,
  "warnings": []
}

Field	Description
package	Input package name
name	Human-readable app name
version	Current version string
last_updated	Most recent update date
created	Original release date — can be compared with last_updated to catch date mixups
script_index	Index of the best-matching inline script on the page
script_score	Confidence score (higher = better match)
warnings	Messages if any field could not be extracted, or if heuristics found conflicting data

Tips for using Google Play Store Versioning

• Use full package names (e.g., com.spotify.music rather than just spotify)
• Package names are case-sensitive
• The Actor handles regional variations of the Play Store automatically
• For best results, verify your package names are correct before running

Is it legal to scrape Google Play Store?

Note that personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your use case is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

We also recommend that you read our blog post: [Is web scraping legal?](https://blog.apify.com/is-web-scraping-legal/