# Google Play Reviews Scraper — Ratings & Text (`s-r/google-play-reviews`) Actor

Scrape Google Play Store reviews for any app: rating, review text, author, date, thumbs-up count, app version, and developer replies. Multiple apps, sort by newest / relevant / rating, paginated to thousands.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/s-r/google-play-reviews.md
- **Developed by:** [SR](https://apify.com/s-r) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per event

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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Play Reviews Scraper

Pull Google Play Store reviews for any app as clean, structured data. Give this
Actor one or more app IDs and it returns the reviews: star rating, review text,
author, date, thumbs-up count, the app version reviewed, and the developer's
reply where there is one. One row per review, ready for a spreadsheet, a
dashboard, or sentiment analysis.

### What you get

For every app you submit, one dataset row per review with:

- **app\_id** — which app the review belongs to (so you can scrape many at once).
- **score** — the star rating, 1 to 5.
- **content** — the review text.
- **user\_name** and **user\_image** — the reviewer's display name and avatar.
- **at** — when the review was posted (ISO 8601 timestamp).
- **thumbs\_up\_count** — how many people found the review helpful.
- **review\_created\_version** — the app version the review was written against.
- **reply\_content** and **replied\_at** — the developer's public reply, if any.

### Example output

```json
{
  "app_id": "com.spotify.music",
  "review_id": "58fd6e9a-1354-454c-9f3b-6e42b86c36c1",
  "user_name": "Satyam Jaiswal",
  "user_image": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/a-/...",
  "score": 1,
  "content": "Playback keeps stopping when the screen locks",
  "thumbs_up_count": 12,
  "review_created_version": "2.26.35.75",
  "at": "2026-09-14T17:03:12+00:00",
  "reply_content": null,
  "replied_at": null
}
```

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `apps` | array of strings | **Required.** One or more Play app IDs — the `id=` value in a store URL (for example `com.spotify.music`). One row per review, tagged with `app_id`. |
| `sort` | string | `newest` (default), `most_relevant`, or `rating` (highest first). |
| `max_reviews_per_app` | integer | Cap on reviews per app, paginated for you. Default `200`, up to `20000`. |
| `lang` | string | Review / interface language (`en`, `de`, `fr`, `es`…). Default `en`. |
| `country` | string | Store country (`us`, `gb`, `de`, `nl`…). Reviews are region-specific. Default `us`. |

#### Where do I find an app's ID?

Open the app on Google Play and look at the address bar. The ID is the value
after `id=`:

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

### Common uses

- **Product feedback and sentiment** — pull the newest reviews for your app (or
  a competitor's) on a schedule and feed them into sentiment analysis.
- **Release monitoring** — filter by `review_created_version` to see how a
  specific release landed.
- **Support triage** — surface low-star reviews and whether they got a reply.
- **Competitive research** — scrape several rival apps at once and compare
  ratings, volume, and common complaints.
- **Market research by region** — run the same app across several `country`
  codes to compare how it is received in different markets.

### How it is billed

Pay per result: you are charged once for each review returned, plus a small
fixed charge when a run starts. An app with no reviews, or a bad app ID, returns
no billable results and is reported in the run's error record. See the Pricing
tab for the exact amounts.

### Notes and limits

- **Reviews are region-specific.** The `country` you pick decides which store's
  reviews you see; run several countries to cover a global app.
- **Sorting then capping.** Reviews are ordered by your `sort` choice, then
  capped at `max_reviews_per_app`. `newest` plus a schedule is the usual way to
  keep an up-to-date feed without re-pulling everything.
- **Developer replies** are included inline on each review when present, so you
  do not need a second pass to see how the developer responded.
- **One app that returns nothing** does not fail the run — it is reported and
  the other apps still complete.

### Tips

- Start with a modest `max_reviews_per_app` and a schedule; a daily `newest`
  pull keeps a rolling dataset cheaply.
- Scrape a set of competitor apps in one run by listing them all in `apps`;
  every row carries its `app_id` so they stay easy to split apart.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

One or more Google Play app IDs — the `id=` value in a store URL (e.g. com.spotify.music). One row per review, tagged with its app\_id.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

How to order reviews before capping.

## `max_reviews_per_app` (type: `integer`):

Cap on reviews fetched per app (paginated in the background). Higher values take longer.

## `lang` (type: `string`):

Review language / interface language (en, de, fr, es…).

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

Store country code (us, gb, de, nl…). Reviews are region-specific.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "com.instagram.android"
  ],
  "sort": "newest",
  "max_reviews_per_app": 200,
  "lang": "en",
  "country": "us"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

Dataset rows produced by this run, one per review.

## `output` (type: `string`):

OUTPUT record with the run's counts and status flags.

## `errors` (type: `string`):

Failures with a code and message. Absent when the run had none.

# 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 = {
    "apps": [
        "com.spotify.music"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("s-r/google-play-reviews").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 = { "apps": ["com.spotify.music"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("s-r/google-play-reviews").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 '{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ]
}' |
apify call s-r/google-play-reviews --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,s-r/google-play-reviews"
        }
    }
}
```

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/Gm1snnxaQe6FgcJlZ/builds/f9JKP5cNk7YscdG0t/openapi.json