Extract Google Play Store data with no API key: search apps by keyword, pull full listing details for any package ID, and harvest user reviews with developer replies. 50+ flat fields per app and 15 per review. Pay-per-event: $0.005/run + $2.30/1000 app details + $1.15/1000 reviews. No monthly fee.
Initial release. Pay-per-event Google Play Store scraper — HTTP-only, no API key, no headless browser.
Three modes:
search — find apps by keyword (one pass per term).
details — full 50+-field listing for specific package IDs.
reviews — user reviews for specific package IDs, with the developer's public reply, automatic pagination via Google's continuation token, reviewSort (newest / rating / relevant), and an optional exact-star reviewScore filter.
appIds accepts bare package names (com.whatsapp) or full Play Store URLs (package ID extracted from ?id=).
Reference-shaped output: updated (ms) normalized to ISO updatedAt, ratings histogram flattened to histogram1star–histogram5star, containsAds derived from adSupported, searchTerm provenance stamped in search mode, and scrapedAt on every row. Unknown library fields pass through verbatim.
Run-level de-duplication: apps by appId across overlapping search terms, reviews by reviewId across pages — no double-emitting or double-billing.
PPE events: actor-start, app-detail, review. Charges fire only after a successful dataset write and honor the run's max-charge ceiling.
Per-item error capture to a sidecar key-value store record; a bad ID or transient failure does not abort the run.
Apify Proxy support with per-retry session rotation; bounded retries with exponential backoff.
Optional customMapFunction to transform each row before it is saved.
TypeScript strict, Vitest unit tests, Zod input validation.
