# Google Play Movies & TV - Full Detail & Cast (`ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-scraper`) Actor

\[$1.5/1000] Crawl Google Play's Movies, Family and TV categories, then get full detail per title: genres, cast & crew, runtime, release date, trailer, poster, buy/rent pricing for movies, and rating plus a full season of episodes for TV shows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Rio Dwi Saputra](https://apify.com/ryyos) (community)
- **Categories:** Videos, E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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# README

Extract complete Google Play Movies & TV catalog data - genres, cast & crew, runtime, trailers, buy/rent pricing for movies, and rating plus a full season of episodes for TV shows - without touching a browser or writing a single line of scraping code.

### What does Google Play Movies & TV Scraper do?

This Actor crawls [Google Play Movies & TV](https://play.google.com/store/movies) across its Movies, Family and TV categories, then opens every title it finds to pull complete detail. For movies: genres, full cast and crew, runtime, release date, trailer, poster, buy/rent pricing (HD and SD), and a technical-details table (audio language, subtitles, rental period). For TV shows: genres, description, poster, aggregate rating with full star breakdown, and the episodes of the season Google Play's own page renders by default (title, synopsis, air date, thumbnail, trailer for each episode). Run it directly from the [Apify Console](https://console.apify.com), on a schedule, or through the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2) and pull results via integrations with Make, Zapier, Google Sheets and more.

### Why use Google Play Movies & TV Scraper?

- **Catalog monitoring** - track new releases, price changes and rental windows across Movies, Family and TV.
- **Market research** - benchmark genre mix, cast/crew credits and pricing across the catalog.
- **Content licensing research** - see buy/rent pricing (HD vs SD) and availability by storefront country.
- **Companion/EPG apps** - pull structured episode data (title, synopsis, air date, artwork) for a show's current season.
- **Competitive monitoring** - schedule runs to catch new titles and price shifts.

### How to use Google Play Movies & TV Scraper

1. Open the Actor's **Input** tab.
2. Optionally pick specific categories (`MOVIE`, `FAMILY`, `TV`) - leave empty to crawl all 3.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| `categories` | Which category pages to crawl. `MOVIE`/`FAMILY` yield movies, `TV` yields TV shows. Leave empty for all 3. | all categories |
| `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` |
| `maxItemsPerCategory` | Cap on titles taken per category page. `0` = take everything Google server-renders on that page. | `100` |
| `maxEpisodesPerShow` | Cap on episodes kept per TV show. `0` = skip episode extraction. | `50` |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Apify Proxy settings. Not required (no anti-bot encountered), but recommended for large runs. | Apify Proxy on |

### Output

Each dataset item is one movie or TV show, distinguished by `contentType`. A movie:

```json
{
  "contentType": "movie",
  "id": "4ijLN9YzjJs.P",
  "title": "A Mother's Secret",
  "genres": [{ "name": "Thriller", "code": "36" }, { "name": "Horror", "code": "10" }],
  "cast": ["Emily Hall", "Nathan Owens", "Abi Van Andel", "Kara Hayward"],
  "directors": ["Patrick Q. Roberts"],
  "runtimeMinutes": 90,
  "releaseYear": "2026",
  "trailerUrl": "https://play.google.com/video/lava/web/player/yt:movie:1DPz1vCkgpE.P",
  "offers": [
    { "type": "Buy", "quality": "HD", "priceFormatted": "$14.99" },
    { "type": "Rent", "quality": "SD", "priceFormatted": "$4.99" }
  ],
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=4ijLN9YzjJs.P&hl=en&gl=us"
}
```

...and a TV show, with the current season's episodes nested inline:

```json
{
  "contentType": "tvShow",
  "id": "URvLYOHGqGs.P",
  "title": "Abbott Elementary",
  "genres": [{ "name": "Comedy", "code": "1004" }],
  "ratingValue": 4.7894735,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 1, "2": 0, "3": 0, "4": 0, "5": 18 },
  "episodes": [
    { "title": "Team Building", "episodeNumber": 1, "airDateText": "10/1/25", "description": "The teachers prepare for the upcoming school year..." }
  ],
  "episodesNote": "Episodes reflect only the single season Google Play's own page renders by default for this show, not its full multi-season history.",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/tv/show?id=URvLYOHGqGs.P&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 |
|---|---|
| `contentType`, `id`, `url`, `title`, `description`, `genres`, `posterUrl` | Common to both movies and TV shows |
| `cast`, `directors`, `writers`, `producers` | Movies only - full credits |
| `runtimeMinutes`, `runtimeSeconds`, `releaseYear`, `releaseDate` | Movies only |
| `trailerUrl`, `trailerThumbnailUrl` | Movies only |
| `offers` | Movies only - Buy/Rent price per quality (HD/SD) |
| `technicalDetails` | Movies only - audio language, subtitles, rental period, etc. |
| `firstAirYear` | TV shows only |
| `ratingValue`, `ratingText`, `ratingCount`, `ratingHistogram` | TV shows only |
| `episodes`, `episodesNote` | TV shows only - see the caveat below |
| `sourceCategory` | Which crawled category first surfaced this title |

### Pricing / Cost estimation

This Actor is priced at **$1.5 per 1,000 titles scraped** (pay-per-result), in line with this project's Google Play App Scraper and below comparable full-detail Google Play/streaming catalog scrapers on Apify Store. Apify's free plan includes monthly platform credit, so small test runs cost nothing.

### Tips or advanced options

- Leave `categories` empty for full coverage on the first run, then narrow to just what you need for scheduled/repeat runs to save compute time.
- The same title is only ever detail-scraped once per run even if it appears under multiple categories (deduplicated automatically); check `sourceCategory` to see where it was first discovered.
- Set `maxEpisodesPerShow` to `0` if you only need show-level metadata, not episodes.

### FAQ, disclaimers and support

This Actor only extracts publicly visible data from Google Play 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 content - no video is downloaded or played, only catalog metadata.

**Known limitations, by design:**

- **No keyword search.** `play.google.com/robots.txt` disallows `/store/search` for every crawler (not an AI-specific rule), so no search endpoint is scraped.
- **Movies do not include a numeric rating.** Verified against multiple live titles - Google Play's movie detail pages don't consistently populate an aggregate score the way app and TV show pages do.
- **Neither movies nor TV shows include individual written reviews** - only TV shows expose an aggregate rating; the "write a review" prompt on both page types is not backed by a visible review list the way Google Play app pages are.
- **TV shows only include one season's episodes** - whichever season Google Play's own page renders by default (typically the current/most recent one), not the full multi-season archive. Full season history is gated behind an internal endpoint `robots.txt` disallows site-wide, the same restriction that already limits review pagination on this project's Google Play App Scraper.
- **TV shows do not include cast/crew** - confirmed absent from the show-level page data (movies do include it).

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 (e.g. Google Play Books)? Reach out and a tailored solution can be built.

# Actor input Schema

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Which Google Play Movies & TV category pages to browse. MOVIE and FAMILY yield movies; TV yields TV shows. Leave empty to crawl all 3.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter Google Play storefront country code, e.g. 'us', 'gb', 'id', 'jp'. Affects pricing, availability and catalog.

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

Language code for the scraped text (title, description), e.g. 'en', 'id', 'ja'.

## `maxItemsPerCategory` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on how many movies/shows to take from each individual category page. Set to 0 to take every title Google Play server-renders on that listing page. The same title found under multiple categories is only detail-scraped once.

## `maxEpisodesPerShow` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on how many episodes to keep per TV show, taken from the single season Google Play's own page renders by default (not the show's full multi-season history - see the Actor's README). Set to 0 to skip episode extraction entirely.

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

play.google.com did not require proxies during testing (no CAPTCHA/anti-bot challenge on listing or detail pages), but Apify Proxy is recommended for large runs to keep your IP healthy given the request volume of crawling many titles.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categories": [
    "MOVIE",
    "TV"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxItemsPerCategory": 100,
  "maxEpisodesPerShow": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

## `runInfo` (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 = {
    "categories": [
        "MOVIE",
        "TV"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-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 = { "categories": [
        "MOVIE",
        "TV",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-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 '{
  "categories": [
    "MOVIE",
    "TV"
  ]
}' |
apify call ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,ryyos/google-play-movies-tv-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/sEWRBy7wUDvXXxfx8/builds/pVrAfbfSgFSMXwEfN/openapi.json