Google Play Scraper — Apps, Reviews & ASO Data (Pay-Per-Event)

Pull structured data straight out of the Google Play Store — no API key, no Google account, no headless browser. This is the Pay-Per-Event edition: there is no monthly rental and no minimum spend. You pay per run plus per record you actually keep — $0.005 to start a run, then $2.30 per 1,000 app details and $1.15 per 1,000 reviews on the Free tier.

Run it on the Apify platform for scheduling, REST API access, dataset exports (JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML), proxy rotation, monitoring, and native integrations with Make, Zapier, Google Sheets, Slack, and 5,000+ other tools.

What does Google Play Scraper do?

This actor reads Google Play's public listing and review pages and hands you back clean, flat JSON. It runs in one of three modes:

• 🔍 Search — hand it keywords (e.g. fitness tracker) and get back the matching apps: title, package ID, developer, price, rating, icon, and store URL. Ideal for discovering apps in a niche.
• 📱 Details — hand it package IDs (e.g. com.whatsapp) and get the full listing: 50+ fields including install ranges, the ratings histogram, in-app-purchase price range, developer contact details, changelog, screenshots, and content rating.
• ⭐ Reviews — hand it package IDs and get user reviews: star rating, headline, body, reviewer name, thumbs-up count, app version, and the developer's public reply to each review. Paginates automatically and filters by star rating.

Every field lands in a single flat row — no nested objects to flatten — so the output drops straight into a spreadsheet, a database, or an LLM prompt.

Where do I find an app's package ID?

It's the id= value in any Google Play URL:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                              package ID

You can paste the whole URL into appIds too — the actor extracts the package ID for you. Common IDs: WhatsApp → com.whatsapp, Spotify → com.spotify.music, Instagram → com.instagram.android, TikTok → com.zhiliaoapp.musically.

Why use Google Play Scraper?

• App Store Optimization (ASO) — See which apps rank for a keyword and study their metadata to inform your own listing.
• Competitive intelligence — Track a competitor's rating drift, install-range jumps, changelog cadence, and review sentiment over time.
• Market research — Build datasets of an entire app category across countries and languages.
• Voice-of-customer / support — Pull 1-star reviews for your own app to triage complaints, and read how competitors reply to theirs.
• Lead generation — Extract developer email, website, and legal-entity contact details from listings.

How to use Google Play Scraper

1. Click Try for free on this actor's page.
2. Pick a Mode: search, details, or reviews.
3. Fill in the matching input:
   • Search → one or more Search terms.
   • Details / Reviews → one or more App IDs (package names or full Play Store URLs).
4. Optionally set Country and Language for localized results, and Max results to cap cost.
5. In reviews mode, choose a Review sort order and, if you want, a star-rating filter.
6. Click Save & Start. Rows stream into the dataset as they're scraped.
7. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML — or read it from the Dataset API.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	No	search, details, or reviews. Default search.
searchTerms	array	In search	Keywords to search Google Play for.
appIds	array	In details / reviews	Package names (com.whatsapp) or full Play Store URLs.
maxResults	integer	No	Apps per search term, or reviews per app. Default 50.
country	string	No	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 storefront code. Default us.
language	string	No	ISO 639-1 language code. Default en.
reviewSort	string	No	newest, rating, or relevant. Default newest.
reviewScore	integer	No	Keep only reviews with this exact star rating (1–5); 0 = all.
customMapFunction	string	No	JS function body that transforms each row before it's saved.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy. Default: Apify Proxy datacenter, AUTO rotation.

Input examples

Search two niches, 20 apps each:

{ "mode": "search", "searchTerms": ["fitness tracker", "workout app"], "maxResults": 20, "country": "us" }

Full details for specific apps:

{ "mode": "details", "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "com.telegram.messenger", "org.thoughtcrime.securesms"] }

Only the 1-star reviews for one app:

{ "mode": "reviews", "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"], "maxResults": 100, "reviewSort": "newest", "reviewScore": 1 }

Output

Results land in the run's default dataset — one row per app (search / details modes) or per review (reviews mode). Download as JSON, JSONL, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

Sample app record (details mode)

{
    "appId": "com.whatsapp",
    "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "summary": "Simple. Reliable. Private.",
    "developer": "WhatsApp LLC",
    "developerEmail": "android@support.whatsapp.com",
    "developerWebsite": "http://www.whatsapp.com/",
    "score": 4.64,
    "scoreText": "4.6",
    "ratings": 239669492,
    "histogram1star": 9773822,
    "histogram5star": 197121646,
    "installs": "10,000,000,000+",
    "minInstalls": 10000000000,
    "maxInstalls": 12152872767,
    "price": 0,
    "priceText": "Free",
    "free": true,
    "currency": "USD",
    "offersIAP": true,
    "IAPRange": "$0.40 - $199.99 per item",
    "containsAds": false,
    "genre": "Communication",
    "genreId": "COMMUNICATION",
    "released": "Oct 18, 2010",
    "updatedAt": "2026-07-25T02:25:41.000Z",
    "version": "VARY",
    "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/..."],
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&gl=us",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Sample review record (reviews mode)

{
    "reviewId": "9d041cca-a76b-4e40-9d3f-2f1c3a55c0e1",
    "appId": "com.spotify.music",
    "userName": "Jane D.",
    "score": 4,
    "scoreText": "4",
    "text": "Great app but the ads are too frequent on the free tier",
    "date": "2026-07-24T21:32:49.558Z",
    "replyText": null,
    "replyDate": null,
    "thumbsUp": 7,
    "version": "9.1.62.1601",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Data table

Field	Type	Description
appId	string	Package name / app ID
title	string	App name
summary	string	Short tagline
description	string	Full listing description
developer	string	Developer / publisher name
developerId	string	Developer page ID
developerEmail	string	Developer contact email
developerWebsite	string	Developer website
score	number	Average rating (1.0–5.0)
ratings	integer	Total rating count
reviews	integer	Total review count
histogram1star–histogram5star	integer	Rating distribution per star
installs	string	Human-readable install range (10,000,000+)
minInstalls / maxInstalls	integer	Numeric install bounds
price / priceText / free / currency	mixed	Pricing
offersIAP / IAPRange	mixed	In-app purchases and price range
containsAds	boolean	Whether the app shows ads
genre / genreId	string	Category
released / updatedAt / version	mixed	Release date, last update (ISO), version
recentChanges	string	Latest changelog
icon / headerImage / screenshots	mixed	Media URLs
contentRating	string	Age rating
url	string	Store URL
searchTerm	string	The keyword that surfaced the app (search mode)
reviewId	string	Unique review ID (reviews mode)
userName / userImage	string	Reviewer name and avatar
text / title	string	Review body and headline
date	datetime	Review timestamp (ISO)
replyText / replyDate	mixed	Developer's public reply
thumbsUp	integer	Helpful votes
scrapedAt	datetime	When this row was emitted (ISO)

Pricing / How much does it cost to scrape Google Play?

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing — no monthly rental, no compute-unit surprises.

Event	Fires when	Free tier
Actor start	Once per run	$0.005
App detail	Per app row (search or details mode)	$2.30 / 1,000 ($0.0023)
Review	Per review row (reviews mode)	$1.15 / 1,000 ($0.00115)

Higher Apify subscription tiers get better per-record rates — see the Pricing tab on this actor's listing for the full table (Business Gold pays $1.20/1,000 app details and $0.60/1,000 reviews).

Cost examples (Free tier):

Workload	Cost
Search 2 terms × 25 apps	$0.005 + 50 × $0.0023 = $0.12
Details for 20 apps	$0.005 + 20 × $0.0023 = $0.051
200 reviews for 1 app	$0.005 + 200 × $0.00115 = $0.235
100 apps + 50 reviews each	$0.005 + 100 × $0.0023 + 5,000 × $0.00115 = $5.985

To enforce a hard ceiling, set Maximum charge per run before launching — the actor stops emitting new records once that limit is reached.

Tips and advanced options

• Start small. Set maxResults: 10 to preview the data shape before a large run.
• Search → details. Search results carry a smaller field subset. Feed the discovered appIds into details mode for the full 50+-field record.
• Set country and language together for accurate localization — country: "de", language: "de" gives the German storefront.
• Filter reviews by rating with reviewScore: 1 to collect only 1-star feedback for product research.
• De-duplication is automatic — overlapping search terms won't emit (or bill for) the same app twice; reviews are de-duplicated by review ID across pages.
• customMapFunction runs in the actor container and receives each row as item; return a transformed object. Errors fall back to the untouched row.

Errors and partial failures

A bad app ID, an app that doesn't exist in the chosen country, or a transient network error on one item does not abort the run. Each failure is written to a sidecar key-value store record named errors-YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl — check the Key-value stores tab on your run.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. The actor reads publicly accessible Google Play pages.

Why are some fields null in search results? Google Play's search response carries fewer fields than a full listing. Use details mode with the package IDs to get everything.

Reviews returned fewer than I asked for? Google limits how many reviews are reachable on public pages, and a star-rating filter naturally reduces the yield. Try removing reviewScore or changing reviewSort.

Is this legal? Scraping publicly available data is broadly lawful (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn in the US), and Google Play listings are public. You remain responsible for complying with Google's Terms of Service, applicable copyright, and data-protection law (GDPR/CCPA) — especially when handling reviewer data. Don't collect personal data beyond what your use case needs.

How do I report a bug? Open an issue on this actor's Issues tab.