# Changelog of Google Play Store Scraper — App Search, Reviews & ASO Charts (`sian.agency/play-store-apps-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/play-store-apps-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/sian.agency/play-store-apps-scraper.md

## Changelog

All notable changes to the Google Play Store Scraper — App Search, Reviews & ASO Charts will be documented in this file.

### \[2026-06-09] — Paywall hardening (pre-launch)

#### 🔐 Changes

- **Paywall integrity fix** — the internal smoke-test override is honored only off-platform; on the platform, only your actual plan tier governs access to the paid App Details & App Reviews operations.

### \[2026-06-09]

#### 🎉 Google Play Store Scraper — Launch!

- **The whole ASO toolkit in one run** — App Search, Top Charts, App Details, App Reviews and Categories behind a single dropdown, no API key required
- **All six Top Charts** — `top-free-apps`, `top-paid-apps`, `top-grossing-apps`, `top-free-games`, `top-paid-games`, `top-grossing-games`, each category-filterable — a competitive-ranking feed the rest of the market doesn't ship
- **App Search** — free-form keyword search across Google Play, cursor-paginated (~20 apps/page), region- and language-aware
- **App Details** — full single-app enrichment: downloads, ratings, pricing, content rating, developer, version history, "what's new", data-safety disclosures and Android requirements
- **App Reviews** — paginated reviews with text, star rating, author, app version, likes and developer replies; sort by relevance / newest / rating and filter by star
- **Categories** — the full Google Play category list (`categoryId` + `categoryName`), always free
- **Clean, deduped JSON** — one flat camelCase row per app, review or category; no raw nested mess, no snake\_case duplicates
- **Two dataset views** — Overview (all fields) and Additional (curated key columns)
- **Pay only for successful rows** — failed lookups land as `status:"error"` rows at **$0**
- **Hard paywall on premium ops** — App Details & App Reviews are reserved for paying plans; free users get a no-cost upgrade-notice row (no upstream call). App Search, Top Charts and Categories run on every tier
- **HTML run report** — status, success/error counts, success rate, pages fetched and duration, written even on a fatal crash