# Google Play Reviews Scraper (`smorgi_apps/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/smorgi\_apps/google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Smorgi Apps](https://apify.com/smorgi_apps) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 app reviews

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?

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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".

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- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Google Play Reviews Scraper — Pay Per Result

Scrape **Google Play app reviews** at scale: star rating, review text, author, thumbs-up count, app version, publish date, and developer replies. Sort by newest, rating, or helpfulness and paginate deep into history — thousands of reviews per app. Fast HTTP, no browser, no login.

**Use cases:** review monitoring, competitor analysis, sentiment/ML datasets, ASO research, churn-signal mining.

### What you get

Each dataset item is one review with a stable schema:

`appId, appName, reviewId, author, rating, text, thumbsUp, appVersion, publishedAt, replyText, url, scrapedAt`

### Pricing

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| Review delivered | **$1.00 per 1,000** |
| Actor start | $0.00005 per GB-start |

Empty result sets are **not charged** — unknown package names are skipped for free.

### Limitations (honest)

- Language and country filters follow Google Play's own review localization — a review shows up under the language it was written in.
- Google occasionally reshuffles its internal review API; this Actor fails fast and never charges for failed pages.
- User avatars and device metadata are not included.

### How to use

1. Paste package names (`com.spotify.music`) or Play Store URLs.
2. Pick sort order, language/country, and a per-app cap.
3. Run — reviews stream into the dataset. Export JSON/CSV or fetch via [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2).

### Related Actors

- [App Store Reviews](https://apify.com/smorgi_apps/app-store-reviews-scraper)
- [Chrome Web Store](https://apify.com/smorgi_apps/chrome-web-store-scraper)
- [Steam Reviews](https://apify.com/smorgi_apps/steam-reviews-scraper)

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*Keywords: google play reviews, android app reviews, play store scraper, app review monitoring, aso tools, review sentiment data*

# Actor input Schema

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

Android package names (com.example.app) or Play Store URLs.

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

Review language (en, de, fr, es, ...).

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

Store country (us, gb, de, in, ...).

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

How reviews are ordered before the cap is applied.

## `maxItemsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Reviews are paginated 100 per request up to this cap.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay between pages.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxItemsPerApp": 100,
  "requestDelayMs": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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"
    ],
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "maxItemsPerApp": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("smorgi_apps/google-play-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 = {
    "apps": ["com.spotify.music"],
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us",
    "maxItemsPerApp": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("smorgi_apps/google-play-reviews-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"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "maxItemsPerApp": 100
}' |
apify call smorgi_apps/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,smorgi_apps/google-play-reviews-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/yRx2WndLyxs6Ck1Te/builds/W0vVGACnIM1FpdyGY/openapi.json