# Google Play Review Alert API (`signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api`) Actor Monitor public Google Play app reviews by package name, country, and language. Export review alerts with ratings, sentiment, urgency, app version, CRM notes, action notes, source URLs, and dedupe-ready keys. - **URL**: https://apify.com/signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api.md - **Developed by:** [SignalCrawl](https://apify.com/signalcrawl) (community) - **Categories:** Automation, AI, Lead generation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $1.50 / 1,000 review alerts This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Google Play Review Alert API Monitor public Google Play app reviews by package name, country, and language, then turn fresh customer feedback into review-intelligence alerts for support, product, ASO, growth, and competitor research teams. This actor uses public Google Play review data through a lightweight scraper library. It does not need a Google developer account, login, or browser automation. ### Why Use This Actor Google Play reviews are useful, but raw reviews are not ready for operations. This actor adds sentiment, urgency, alert classification, CRM-ready notes, action notes, timestamps, and dedupe keys. ### Best For | Workflow | How teams use the output | |---|---| | Android support triage | Detect low-star reviews mentioning crashes, login, refunds, charges, or subscriptions. | | Product monitoring | Watch post-release feedback by app version, country, and language. | | ASO review intelligence | Turn public reviews into scored feedback for app-store optimization. | | Competitor research | Track repeated complaints and praised features across competing Android apps. | | Automation | Trigger Slack, ticketing, CRM, Airtable, Sheets, or AI-agent workflows. | ### Input Example ```json { "packageNames": ["com.facebook.katana"], "countries": ["us"], "language": "en", "maxReviewsPerApp": 100, "maxRating": 2, "alertOnly": true, "keywords": ["crash", "refund", "subscription", "login"] } ```` ### Output Example ```json { "platform": "google_play", "packageName": "com.facebook.katana", "country": "us", "language": "en", "rating": 1, "title": "Google Play review", "review": "The app crashes after login.", "author": "Google Play user", "updatedAt": "2026-05-20T12:00:00+00:00", "version": "500.0", "thumbsUpCount": 4, "sentimentScore": -0.82, "urgencyScore": 91, "alertType": "bug_or_crash", "crmNote": "com.facebook.katana US review: 1/5...", "actionNote": "Send to product/QA...", "sourceUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana", "dedupeKey": "f2b1...", "scrapedAt": "2026-05-20T12:05:00+00:00" } ``` ### Pricing Recommended pricing: `$1.50 / 1,000 review alerts`. Primary event name: `Review alert`. Recommended Apify Store categories: Automation, AI, Lead generation. ### Notes And Limitations - Google controls public review availability, freshness, country coverage, and returned fields. - Use `dedupeKey` when sending records into CRMs, support queues, or scheduled monitoring. - Sentiment and urgency are heuristic prioritization signals, not legal or support advice. # Actor input Schema ## `packageNames` (type: `array`): Google Play package names to monitor, for example com.facebook.katana. ## `countries` (type: `array`): Two-letter Google Play country codes. ## `language` (type: `string`): Google Play language code. ## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`): Maximum recent reviews to save for each package/country pair. ## `minRating` (type: `integer`): Optional rating floor from 1 to 5. ## `maxRating` (type: `integer`): Optional rating ceiling from 1 to 5. ## `alertOnly` (type: `boolean`): Only save reviews that trigger a bug, billing, churn, keyword, negative, or high-urgency alert. ## `keywords` (type: `array`): Optional words or phrases that should raise keyword\_match alerts. ## `sinceDate` (type: `string`): Optional ISO date/datetime. Reviews older than this are skipped. ## Actor input object example ```json { "packageNames": [ "com.facebook.katana" ], "countries": [ "us" ], "language": "en", "maxReviewsPerApp": 100, "alertOnly": false, "keywords": [ "crash", "bug", "refund", "subscription", "login" ] } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "packageNames": [ "com.facebook.katana" ], "countries": [ "us" ], "keywords": [ "crash", "bug", "refund", "subscription", "login" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "packageNames": ["com.facebook.katana"], "countries": ["us"], "keywords": [ "crash", "bug", "refund", "subscription", "login", ], } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api").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 '{ "packageNames": [ "com.facebook.katana" ], "countries": [ "us" ], "keywords": [ "crash", "bug", "refund", "subscription", "login" ] }' | apify call signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=signalcrawl/google-play-review-alert-api", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Google Play Review Alert API", "description": "Monitor public Google Play app reviews by package name, country, and language. Export review alerts with ratings, sentiment, urgency, app version, CRM notes, action notes, source URLs, and dedupe-ready keys.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "GaQiPrzcbIPhZASQL" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/signalcrawl~google-play-review-alert-api/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-signalcrawl-google-play-review-alert-api", "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": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/signalcrawl~google-play-review-alert-api/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-signalcrawl-google-play-review-alert-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/signalcrawl~google-play-review-alert-api/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-signalcrawl-google-play-review-alert-api", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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", "required": [ "packageNames" ], "properties": { "packageNames": { "title": "Package names", "type": "array", "description": "Google Play package names to monitor, for example com.facebook.katana.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "countries": { "title": "Countries", "type": "array", "description": "Two-letter Google Play country codes.", "default": [ "us" ], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "language": { "title": "Language", "type": "string", "description": "Google Play language code.", "default": "en" }, "maxReviewsPerApp": { "title": "Max reviews per app/country", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum recent reviews to save for each package/country pair.", "default": 100 }, "minRating": { "title": "Minimum rating", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5, "type": "integer", "description": "Optional rating floor from 1 to 5." }, "maxRating": { "title": "Maximum rating", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 5, "type": "integer", "description": "Optional rating ceiling from 1 to 5." }, "alertOnly": { "title": "Alert only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only save reviews that trigger a bug, billing, churn, keyword, negative, or high-urgency alert.", "default": false }, "keywords": { "title": "Alert keywords", "type": "array", "description": "Optional words or phrases that should raise keyword_match alerts.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "sinceDate": { "title": "Since date", "type": "string", "description": "Optional ISO date/datetime. Reviews older than this are skipped." } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } } ```