# Google Play Reviews API (`soilair/google-play-reviews-api`) Actor

Extract public Google Play reviews across Android apps and storefront countries with ratings, review text, dates, app versions, and developer replies.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/soilair/google-play-reviews-api.md
- **Developed by:** [Salih Can Kurnaz](https://apify.com/soilair) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Business, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.06 / 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.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

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

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# README

## Google Play Reviews API

Extract public Google Play reviews for Android apps and receive normalized Dataset rows that are easy to use in analytics, dashboards, market research, customer-feedback pipelines, AI agents, and app-monitoring workflows.

Provide one or more Android package IDs such as `com.whatsapp` or `com.spotify.music`. You can also provide one or more storefront countries. The Actor runs every app-country pair independently, deduplicates each pair by the public review ID, and returns structured fields such as rating, review text, publication date, helpful-vote count, app version, developer reply, and a source marker.

### Stable fixed-count collection

The production path uses the scraper library's fixed-count collection mode with `paginate=false`. This is intentional. Internal stability testing found that the separate single-page continuation-token mode can have unstable page membership for some high-volume apps, while the fixed-count collection path remained stable across repeated production benchmarks.

`reviewsPerAppCountry` controls the maximum number of reviews requested for every app-country pair. For example, two apps, two countries, and 100 reviews per pair can produce up to 400 Dataset rows before filtering.

### Incremental workflows

Use `knownReviewIds` to suppress reviews you have already processed. You can also provide `publishedAfter` as an ISO-8601 lower bound. These filters are applied after public reviews are retrieved, so your downstream system can maintain its own incremental state without requiring a Google account.

### Privacy

`includeReviewerName` is **false by default**. When disabled, reviewer display names are not persisted to the Dataset. Enable it only if the public display name is genuinely necessary for your workflow. Ratings, review text, dates, app versions, and developer responses remain available independently.

### Stability verification

`verifyStability=true` repeats each source request and compares review IDs. This is useful for private benchmarking and publication preflight, but it doubles source traffic and should normally remain disabled for ordinary production runs.

### Output

Each Dataset row represents one review within one app-country pair. The default output also links to a structured `SUMMARY` record and a human-readable `REPORT`.

The Actor does **not claim complete historical Google Play review coverage**. Google Play exposes a public review surface whose ordering and accessible depth can change over time. Use the Actor for current public-review extraction and monitoring rather than as a guaranteed archival source.

### Billing

The Actor uses pay-per-event billing. A `review-result` event is charged when reviews are successfully delivered to the default Dataset. The configured Actor-start event is applied separately by the platform.

### Example input

```json
{
  "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music"],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "language": "en",
  "reviewsPerAppCountry": 100,
  "publishedAfter": "",
  "knownReviewIds": [],
  "includeReviewerName": false,
  "verifyStability": false
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `appIds` (type: `array`):

Google Play Android package IDs.

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

Google Play storefront country codes.

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

Google Play language code.

## `reviewsPerAppCountry` (type: `integer`):

Maximum reviews fetched for each app-country pair.

## `publishedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional ISO-8601 lower bound; older reviews are filtered after retrieval.

## `knownReviewIds` (type: `array`):

Optional review IDs to suppress for incremental workflows.

## `includeReviewerName` (type: `boolean`):

Persist the public reviewer display name. Disabled by default for data minimization.

## `verifyStability` (type: `boolean`):

Repeat each source fetch and compare review IDs. Intended for benchmarks/preflight, not routine runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIds": [
    "com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "reviewsPerAppCountry": 100,
  "publishedAfter": "",
  "knownReviewIds": [],
  "includeReviewerName": false,
  "verifyStability": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Default Dataset with normalized Google Play reviews.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Run metrics, stability and billing gates.

## `report` (type: `string`):

Human-readable run report.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("soilair/google-play-reviews-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 '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("soilair/google-play-reviews-api").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 '{}' |
apify call soilair/google-play-reviews-api --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,soilair/google-play-reviews-api"
        }
    }
}

```

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/i3X0ZnxwdfzwerwGg/builds/aQUDb0hbDNN8pfzvF/openapi.json