Google Play Audiobooks - Full Detail & Reviews

Extract complete Google Play Audiobooks data at scale - full catalog coverage, and full detail on every title - without touching a browser or writing a single line of scraping code.

What does Google Play Audiobooks Scraper do?

This Actor crawls Google Play Audiobooks' full catalog, then opens every audiobook it finds to pull complete detail: full synopsis, author bio, narrator, publisher, ISBN, duration, genre tags, price, the rating breakdown by star, real user reviews with author name and full text, and related titles ("More by this author," "More by this narrator," "Related titles"). Run it directly from the Apify Console, on a schedule, or through the Apify API and pull results via integrations with Make, Zapier, Google Sheets and more.

Note: Google Play currently only server-renders real listing content for the general "All audiobooks" tab and the "Children's audiobooks" genre - the other genre-filter links in Google's own navigation return an empty page (see FAQ below). The "All audiobooks" tab is not genre-limited, so this does not reduce catalog coverage - only the ability to target one specific genre.

Why use Google Play Audiobooks Scraper?

• Publishing/audio market research - track which genres, publishers and narrators dominate Google Play Audiobooks over time.
• Competitive pricing - monitor audiobook prices across genres and publishers.
• Review mining - read what real listeners actually say (not just star averages) to spot what resonates in a genre.
• Narrator/author tracking - follow moreByAuthorAudiobookIds and moreByNarratorAudiobookIds to map an author's or narrator's full catalog.
• Catalog research - see publisher, ISBN, duration and abridged/unabridged status at a glance.

How to use Google Play Audiobooks Scraper

1. Open the Actor's Input tab.
2. Leave genres empty for full catalog coverage (recommended), or narrow to just the "Children's audiobooks" genre.
3. Set your storefront country and language (defaults to us / en).
4. Click Start and watch results land in the Output tab as they're scraped.
5. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or via the API.

Input

Field	Description	Default
genres	Which source(s) to crawl - "All audiobooks" (full catalog) and/or "Children's audiobooks" (the only other genre that currently returns real content - see FAQ). Leave empty for both.	both sources
country	Two-letter Play Store storefront country code (gl), e.g. us, gb, id.	us
language	Language code for scraped text (hl), e.g. en, id, ja.	en
maxAudiobooksPerSource	Cap on audiobooks taken per genre page. 0 = take everything Google server-renders on that page (typically ~100-150).	60
maxReviewsPerAudiobook	Cap on reviews kept per audiobook. 0 = skip reviews.	10
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy settings. Not required (no anti-bot encountered), but recommended for large runs.	Apify Proxy on

Output

Each dataset item is one audiobook, for example:

{
  "audiobookId": "AQAAAIACJwGnEM",
  "title": "Practical Magic",
  "authorName": "Alice Hoffman",
  "narrators": ["Christina Moore"],
  "publisher": "Simon and Schuster",
  "isbn": "9781442362499",
  "durationText": "9h 12m 32s",
  "durationSeconds": 33152,
  "genres": ["Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary", "Fiction / Family Life / Siblings"],
  "ratingValue": 4.35,
  "ratingHistogram": { "5": 22, "4": 6, "3": 4, "2": 0, "1": 2 },
  "isFree": false,
  "priceFormatted": "$14.95",
  "reviews": [
    { "author": "Elisa Grant-Holler", "rating": 5, "text": "...", "postedAtText": "April 18, 2023", "helpfulCount": 0 }
  ],
  "moreByAuthorAudiobookIds": ["AQAAAICCJ0-n3M", "AQAAAACZX2Zf7M"],
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details?id=AQAAAIACJwGnEM&hl=en&gl=us"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab or the API.

Data table

Field	Description
title, description, authorBio	Audiobook title, full synopsis, author biography
coverThumbnailUrl, coverImageUrl	Cover image URLs (thumbnail and large)
authorName, authorNames, authorUrl, narrators	Author identity (primary and full list), Play page, narrator(s)
isbn, publisher, publishedDate, publishedDateText, audiobookLanguage	Publication metadata
durationIso, durationSeconds, durationText, isAbridged	Length and abridged/unabridged status
genres	Genre/subject tags (hierarchical, e.g. "Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary")
deviceCompatibility, exportOption, seller, additionalDetails	Device support note, export note, seller of record, and any other info-panel fields
isFree, price, priceCurrency, priceFormatted, availability	Pricing
ratingValue, ratingCount, ratingHistogram	Average rating and full 1-5 star breakdown
reviews	Author, avatar, rating, full text, date, helpful count
continueTheSeriesAudiobookIds, moreByAuthorAudiobookIds, moreByNarratorAudiobookIds, relatedAudiobookIds, relatedClusters	Related titles
sourceCategory	Which crawled genre first surfaced this audiobook

Pricing / Cost estimation

This Actor is priced at $1.5 per 1,000 audiobooks scraped (pay-per-result), in line with the sibling Google Play Books Scraper and Google Play Store App Scraper. Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, so small test runs cost nothing.

Tips or advanced options

• Leave genres empty for the broadest run (both working sources) - the general "All audiobooks" tab alone already spans categories, so this is the recommended default.
• The same audiobook is only ever detail-scraped once per run even if it appears in both sources (deduplicated automatically); check sourceCategory to see where it was first discovered.
• Set maxReviewsPerAudiobook to 0 if you only need audiobook metadata - this skips nothing else, reviews are just not requested.
• Brand-new titles may have no reviews or rating yet - these come back as empty/null rather than being omitted, so your downstream schema stays consistent.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

Why can't I filter by genre like Fiction, Romance or Mystery? Google Play links to genre-specific audiobook pages from its own Books homepage, but as of this writing most of those pages (15 of 17 tested) return an empty shell rather than server-rendered results - the listing content on those specific routes appears to require client-side JavaScript execution that this Actor, like any plain-HTTP scraper, does not perform. This is a real limitation of the target site today, not a bug in this Actor - the "All audiobooks" tab and the "Children's audiobooks" genre are the two sources confirmed to work, and the former is not genre-limited to begin with, so overall catalog coverage is not reduced.

This Actor only extracts publicly visible data from Google Play Audiobooks pages that anyone can view in a browser without logging in. It does not access, bypass or attempt to circumvent any login wall, CAPTCHA or paid/DRM-protected content. Reviews returned are the batch Google Play itself renders on the audiobook's own page; this Actor does not paginate beyond what Google serves on that page. This Actor covers audiobooks only - Google Play Books (ebooks) is a separate catalog with its own URL and ID scheme, covered by the sibling Google Play Books Scraper. Google Play's own layout can change over time, which may require an update to this Actor - please report any issue via the Issues tab. Need a custom scraper or a feature this Actor doesn't cover? Reach out and a tailored solution can be built.