# App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (`sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape app reviews and ratings from BOTH the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run. Get review text, star rating, author, date, app version, helpful votes, developer replies, plus full app metadata and the 1-5 star ratings histogram. No login, multi-country.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Sheshinmcfly](https://apify.com/sheshinmcfly) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.10 / 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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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```bash
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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
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# Windows
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```bash

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# README

## App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper

Scrape app reviews, ratings and full app metadata from **both the Apple App Store and Google Play in a single run**. Most scrapers cover only one store — this one gives you both, with a unified data format, so you can track user sentiment across iOS and Android side by side.

Give it App Store IDs and/or Google Play package names, pick your countries, and get back every review with its star rating, text, author, date, app version and helpful votes — plus developer replies and a complete app profile including the **1–5 star ratings histogram**. No login, no account, no API key.

### Data you get

**Per review**

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| store | `app_store` or `google_play` |
| appId | App identifier |
| rating | Star rating (1–5) |
| title | Review title (App Store) |
| text | Full review text |
| userName | Reviewer name |
| userImage | Reviewer avatar (Google Play) |
| date | Review date (ISO 8601) |
| timestamp | Review date (Unix epoch) |
| appVersion | App version reviewed |
| thumbsUp | Helpful / vote count |
| developerReplyText | Developer's reply, if any |
| developerReplyDate | Date of the developer reply |
| language | Storefront language requested |
| position | Position of the review in the result set |
| country | Storefront country |
| reviewUrl | Direct link to the review |

**Per app (metadata record)**

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| appName / developer | App title and developer |
| averageRating | Overall average star rating |
| totalRatings | Total number of ratings |
| ratingsHistogram | Count of 1★, 2★, 3★, 4★, 5★ ratings |
| installs | Install count (Google Play) |
| category | App category / genre |
| price / free / currency | Pricing info |
| currentVersion / lastUpdated / releaseDate | Version info |
| description / releaseNotes | App description and latest changes |
| contentRating | Age / content rating |
| icon / screenshots | Media URLs |

### How to use

1. Add one or more **App Store apps** (numeric ID like `389801252`, or the full app URL).
2. Add one or more **Google Play apps** (package name like `com.instagram.android`, or the full URL).
3. Choose the **countries** (storefronts) to cover — each country returns its own reviews.
4. Optionally filter by **star rating range**, **keywords**, or **only recent reviews** (last N days).
5. Set **max reviews per app** and run. Results appear in the dataset, ready to export to JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Use cases

- **App Store Optimization (ASO):** track rating trends and review sentiment for your app and competitors.
- **Product feedback:** mine reviews for bugs, feature requests and complaints by version.
- **Competitive research:** compare iOS vs Android sentiment for any app.
- **Support monitoring:** detect negative-review spikes and whether developers reply.
- **Market research:** pull ratings histograms and install counts across a category.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| appStoreIds | array | App Store numeric IDs or URLs |
| googlePlayIds | array | Google Play package names or URLs |
| countries | array | Two-letter country codes (default `us`) |
| language | string | Language for Google Play (default `en`) |
| maxReviewsPerApp | integer | Max reviews per app per country (default 100) |
| sort | select | `mostRecent` or `mostHelpful` (App Store) |
| includeReviews | boolean | Output review records |
| includeAppMetadata | boolean | Output an app-summary record per app |
| minRating | integer | Only include reviews with at least this star rating |
| maxRating | integer | Only include reviews with at most this star rating |
| keywords | array | Only include reviews whose title/text contains at least one keyword |
| recentDays | integer | Only include reviews from the last N days |

### Output example

```json
{
  "recordType": "review",
  "store": "app_store",
  "appId": "389801252",
  "rating": 5,
  "title": "Love it",
  "text": "Best app for sharing photos with friends.",
  "userName": "janedoe",
  "date": "2026-07-12T06:47:48-07:00",
  "appVersion": "438.0.0",
  "thumbsUp": 12,
  "country": "us"
}
````

### Performance & cost

Runs on lightweight requests (no browser), so it is fast and cheap: hundreds of reviews plus full metadata in seconds. App Store returns up to ~490 reviews per app per country; add more countries to expand coverage.

### Pricing

This actor uses **pay-per-result** pricing — you are charged per record returned (reviews + metadata). See the pricing shown on the actor page.

### Keywords

app store scraper, google play scraper, app reviews scraper, app ratings, aso tools, play store reviews, app store reviews, mobile app reviews, ratings histogram, developer replies, ios android reviews, app metadata

### Related actors

- [Trustpilot Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/sheshinmcfly/trustpilot-reviews-scraper)
- [Google Maps Scraper](https://apify.com/sheshinmcfly/google-maps-scraper)
- [Reddit Thread Scraper](https://apify.com/sheshinmcfly/reddit-thread-scraper)

### Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly available data from the Apple App Store and Google Play — no login or private data is accessed. Use the data in compliance with the applicable terms and with data-protection laws (e.g. GDPR). Reviews may contain personal data; handle responsibly.

### Changelog

| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | 2026-07-13 | Added rating/keyword/date filters, Unix timestamp, language and result-position fields |
| 1.0 | 2026-07-13 | Initial release — App Store + Google Play reviews, ratings histogram and full app metadata |

# Actor input Schema

## `appStoreIds` (type: `array`):

App Store numeric IDs or full app URLs (e.g. 389801252 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252).

## `googlePlayIds` (type: `array`):

Google Play package names or full app URLs (e.g. com.instagram.android or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android).

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter country codes for the storefronts to scrape (e.g. us, gb, de). Each country returns its own reviews, multiplying coverage.

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

Two-letter language code for Google Play content.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Maximum reviews to fetch per app and country. App Store returns up to ~490 per country; Google Play returns the most recent batch per page load.

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

How to sort App Store reviews.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Output individual review records.

## `includeAppMetadata` (type: `boolean`):

Output an app-summary record per app (rating, ratings histogram, installs, version, category, developer, etc.).

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Only include reviews with at least this star rating (1-5).

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Only include reviews with at most this star rating (1-5).

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only include reviews whose title or text contains at least one of these keywords (case-insensitive).

## `recentDays` (type: `integer`):

Only include reviews posted within the last N days. Leave empty for no date filter.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appStoreIds": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "googlePlayIds": [
    "com.instagram.android"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sort": "mostRecent",
  "includeReviews": true,
  "includeAppMetadata": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

All review and app-metadata records.

# 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 = {
    "appStoreIds": [
        "389801252"
    ],
    "googlePlayIds": [
        "com.instagram.android"
    ],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-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 = {
    "appStoreIds": ["389801252"],
    "googlePlayIds": ["com.instagram.android"],
    "countries": ["us"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "appStoreIds": [
    "389801252"
  ],
  "googlePlayIds": [
    "com.instagram.android"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ]
}' |
apify call sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=sheshinmcfly/app-reviews-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape app reviews and ratings from BOTH the Apple App Store and Google Play in one run. Get review text, star rating, author, date, app version, helpful votes, developer replies, plus full app metadata and the 1-5 star ratings histogram. No login, multi-country.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "o9Sf9NnFoErBAKBfV"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
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                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sheshinmcfly~app-reviews-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-sheshinmcfly-app-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
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                "parameters": [
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                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/sheshinmcfly~app-reviews-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-sheshinmcfly-app-reviews-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "appStoreIds": {
                        "title": "Apple App Store apps",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "App Store numeric IDs or full app URLs (e.g. 389801252 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "googlePlayIds": {
                        "title": "Google Play apps",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Google Play package names or full app URLs (e.g. com.instagram.android or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "countries": {
                        "title": "Countries",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Two-letter country codes for the storefronts to scrape (e.g. us, gb, de). Each country returns its own reviews, multiplying coverage.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "language": {
                        "title": "Language (Google Play)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Two-letter language code for Google Play content.",
                        "default": "en"
                    },
                    "maxReviewsPerApp": {
                        "title": "Max reviews per app (per country)",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum reviews to fetch per app and country. App Store returns up to ~490 per country; Google Play returns the most recent batch per page load.",
                        "default": 100
                    },
                    "sort": {
                        "title": "Sort order (App Store)",
                        "enum": [
                            "mostRecent",
                            "mostHelpful"
                        ],
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "How to sort App Store reviews.",
                        "default": "mostRecent"
                    },
                    "includeReviews": {
                        "title": "Include reviews",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Output individual review records.",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "includeAppMetadata": {
                        "title": "Include app metadata",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Output an app-summary record per app (rating, ratings histogram, installs, version, category, developer, etc.).",
                        "default": true
                    },
                    "minRating": {
                        "title": "Minimum rating",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Only include reviews with at least this star rating (1-5)."
                    },
                    "maxRating": {
                        "title": "Maximum rating",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 5,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Only include reviews with at most this star rating (1-5)."
                    },
                    "keywords": {
                        "title": "Keywords filter",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Only include reviews whose title or text contains at least one of these keywords (case-insensitive).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "recentDays": {
                        "title": "Only reviews from the last N days",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Only include reviews posted within the last N days. Leave empty for no date filter."
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```