# Google Play Scraper (`signalmole/google-play-scraper`) Actor

Google Play app reviews and app details: review text, rating, date, likes, app version and developer replies, plus app score, installs, rating histogram, price, genre, developer contact and screenshots. Fast, no browser.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/signalmole/google-play-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SignalMole](https://apify.com/signalmole) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$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/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 and app data](https://gat-assets.pages.dev/play/hero.png)

## Google Play Scraper

Get **Google Play reviews** and **app details** for any Android app as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Reviews come with rating, text, date, likes, app version and the **developer's reply**. App details include score, **rating histogram**, installs, price, in-app purchases, genre, developer contact, release and update dates, icon and screenshots.

No login, no browser. Fast: **10,000 reviews in about 30 seconds.** **$0.10 per 1,000 results.**

### ✨ Why this scraper?

| Feature | What you get |
| :--- | :--- |
| ⚡ **Fast** | Reads Google Play's own data endpoint, 200 reviews per request — 10,000 reviews in ~30 s |
| 💬 **Developer replies** | Reply text and date next to each review |
| ⭐ **Filter by rating** | Only 1-star reviews, only 5-star reviews… |
| 🔃 **Three sort orders** | Newest, most relevant, or by rating |
| 📊 **App details in the same run** | Score, histogram, ratings and reviews count, exact installs, price, ads, genre, developer email and website |
| 🌍 **Any language and country** | German reviews from the German store, Japanese from Japan… |
| 🔗 **IDs or URLs** | `com.spotify.music` or a full Play Store link |
| 💰 **Simple price** | $0.10 per 1,000 results, platform usage and proxy included |

### 🎯 Use cases

- **App review monitoring** — catch new 1-star reviews after every release.
- **Competitor research** — what users love and hate in competing apps.
- **Product and UX research** — feed reviews into sentiment analysis or an LLM to find top complaints.
- **ASO and market research** — compare scores, installs, genres and update frequency.
- **Customer support** — see which reviews still have no developer reply.
- **AI agents** — call it through the Apify MCP server: *"Summarize this week's 1-star reviews of our app."*

### 🚀 How to use

1. Add **apps**: app IDs (`com.spotify.music`) or Google Play URLs, one per line.
2. Choose **max reviews per app**, **sort order** and, optionally, a **rating filter**.
3. Pick the **language** and **country** of the store.
4. Click **Start**. Download the results or pull them via API.

```json
{
  "apps": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.duolingo"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "reviewsRating": "1",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us"
}
```

| Input | What it does |
| :--- | :--- |
| `apps` | App IDs or Google Play app URLs. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | Reviews per app. `0` = app details only. |
| `reviewsSort` | `newest`, `relevant` or `rating`. |
| `reviewsRating` | `all`, or `1`–`5` for one star rating only. |
| `includeAppDetails` | Save one app item per app (on by default). |
| `language`, `country` | Store language (`en`, `de`, `ja`, `zh-TW`…) and country (`us`, `de`, `jp`…). |

### 📦 Output

Each item has a `type`: one `app` item per app, then one `review` item per review. The **Reviews** and **Apps** tabs of the dataset show each kind as a table.

Review (real example):

```json
{
  "type": "review",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "reviewId": "31dd5f9b-bd5f-4e2f-9465-71f707e14285",
  "userName": "Marisa M",
  "rating": 2,
  "text": "I don't know what you guys did in the last update, but now when I listen to any podcast, it plays the list opposite…",
  "date": "2026-09-18T06:24:22Z",
  "thumbsUp": 397,
  "appVersion": "9.1.82.2160",
  "replyText": "Hi! For more information, visit support.spotify.com…",
  "replyDate": "2026-09-18T15:50:44Z"
}
```

App (real example, shortened):

```json
{
  "type": "app",
  "appId": "com.instagram.android",
  "title": "Instagram",
  "score": 3.99,
  "ratingsCount": 169541507,
  "reviewsCount": 4543352,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 31915060, "2": 5348248, "3": 7072952, "4": 13504250, "5": 111700970 },
  "installs": "5,000,000,000+",
  "installsExact": 7831446929,
  "free": true,
  "inAppPurchases": "$0.19 - $10,000.00 per item",
  "containsAds": true,
  "genre": "Social",
  "contentRating": "Teen",
  "developer": "Instagram",
  "developerEmail": "instagram-android@meta.com",
  "released": "Apr 3, 2012",
  "updated": "2026-10-22T00:51:59Z",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&hl=en&gl=us"
}
```

| Review field | Description |
| :--- | :--- |
| `rating`, `text`, `date` | Stars (1–5), review text and time (UTC) |
| `thumbsUp` | How many people found the review helpful |
| `appVersion` | App version the reviewer used |
| `replyText`, `replyDate` | The developer's reply, if any |
| `userName`, `userImage`, `reviewId` | Reviewer name and avatar as shown on Google Play; stable review ID |

| App field | Description |
| :--- | :--- |
| `score`, `ratingsCount`, `reviewsCount`, `ratingHistogram` | Average rating and how many ratings per star |
| `installs`, `minInstalls`, `installsExact` | Install band shown on the store and Google's exact count |
| `free`, `price`, `currency`, `inAppPurchases`, `containsAds` | Monetization |
| `genre`, `genreId`, `contentRating` | Category and age rating |
| `developer`, `developerId`, `developerEmail`, `developerWebsite`, `privacyPolicy` | Developer and contact details |
| `released`, `updated`, `recentChanges` | Release date, last update, "What's new" text |
| `summary`, `description`, `icon`, `headerImage`, `screenshots` | Store listing texts and images |

### 💰 How much does it cost?

You pay **$0.10 per 1,000 results** — reviews and app items alike. Platform usage and proxy are included.

| Results | Cost |
| :--- | ---: |
| 1,000 reviews | $0.10 |
| 10,000 reviews | $1.00 |
| 100,000 reviews | $10.00 |

Apify's free plan includes $5 of monthly credit — enough for about 50,000 reviews.

### 🔁 Review monitoring

Schedule the Actor daily (Apify **Schedules**) with `reviewsSort: "newest"` and a small `maxReviewsPerApp`, and keep the reviews whose `reviewId` you have not seen yet.

### 🔌 Integrations

- **API / SDKs** — start runs and fetch results from Python, JavaScript or any HTTP client.
- **Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack** — via Apify integrations.
- **MCP** — add the [Apify MCP server](https://mcp.apify.com) to Claude, Cursor or any MCP client and call this Actor as a tool.

### ❓ FAQ

**How many reviews can I get?**
As many as Google Play shows for the app, language and filter — tested with 10,000 per app.

**Why do I get fewer reviews than the app's review count?**
Google Play only shows reviews written in the selected language, and not every rating has a written review.

**Can I export to CSV or Excel?**
Yes — every Apify dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML.

### ⚖️ Is this legal?

This Actor reads publicly visible Google Play pages and data and does not log in. Reviews include reviewer names as shown publicly on Google Play; if you store them, follow the privacy rules that apply to you (such as GDPR).

### 💬 Need help?

Open an issue on the **Issues** tab — feature requests welcome.

# Actor input Schema

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

App IDs (com.spotify.music) or Google Play app URLs, one per line.

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

How many reviews to get for each app. 0 = app details only.

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Newest first, most relevant (Google's default) or by rating.

## `reviewsRating` (type: `string`):

Keep only 1-star, 2-star… reviews, or all of them.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also save one item per app: score, rating histogram, installs, price, genre, developer contact, screenshots and more.

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

Language of the reviews and app texts (en, de, ja, zh-TW…). Google Play shows reviews written in this language.

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

Two-letter country of the Play Store (us, gb, de, jp, tw…). Prices and availability follow it.

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

Apify datacenter proxy works well and is included in the price.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "reviewsRating": "all",
  "includeAppDetails": true,
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

One item per review (type "review"): rating, text, date, likes, app version and the developer's reply.

## `apps` (type: `string`):

One item per app (type "app"): score, ratings, installs, price, genre, developer and images.

# 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("signalmole/google-play-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 = { "apps": ["com.spotify.music"] }

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,signalmole/google-play-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/shEoVs7pZofRpA4si/builds/Xa0UYqQu366Vw935G/openapi.json