# Google Play App Details Scraper (`steadydata/google-play-app-details`) Actor

Full Google Play listing per app id or URL, up to 500 apps per run, any country: title, developer, rating with counts, exact installs, price, in-app purchases, category, content rating, version, dates, description, images. Pay per delivered app.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/steadydata/google-play-app-details.md
- **Developed by:** [Steadydata Team](https://apify.com/steadydata) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Marketing, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 app fetcheds

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?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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?

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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).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — 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 App Details Scraper (bulk, per country)

The full Google Play listing for **up to 500 apps per run**, by package name or URL, in
any store country and language: title, developer, rating with ratings and reviews
counts, installs (the "50M+" text plus Google's exact figure), price and currency, in-app
purchase range, category, content rating, version, minimum Android version, release and
update dates, summary, description, icon, header image and screenshots. **You only pay
for apps that are actually delivered.**

### Why this scraper

- **The real numbers behind the page.** Google's listing page embeds more than it shows:
  next to "50M+" sits the actual install count (97,132,476 for Minecraft in testing on
  13-09-2026), and next to the star rating the exact ratings and reviews counts. All of
  it is delivered.
- **Per country.** Prices, availability, install text and content rating follow the
  store country you choose; language follows `language`.
- **31 clean fields, flat.** One row per app, ready for a spreadsheet, a database or an
  LLM prompt. Dates as text and as ISO timestamps.
- **No proxies to pay for.** Google Play serves listing pages to Apify's standard
  datacenter pool, so this actor runs without residential proxies, which is why it can
  be priced per app rather than per megabyte.
- **Only delivered apps are charged.** An app that does not exist in the chosen country
  comes back as a clear error record at no cost.

### Who this is for

App marketers and ASO teams tracking competitors across countries. Analysts sizing a
category by installs and ratings. Investors and researchers building app datasets.
Anyone who needs listing data for a list of apps without visiting each page.

### Who this is not for

This actor works from **app ids or URLs you already have**. It does not search Google
Play by keyword and does not list top charts; Google's robots.txt closes the search
page and this actor respects that. Reviews are not included either: the listing page
carries only the counts, and reviews would mean reviewer names, which this publisher
does not collect. The developer's e-mail and postal address, which the page does show,
are left out on purpose.

### Input example

```json
{
    "apps": ["com.whatsapp", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava"],
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en"
}
```

### Output example

```json
{
    "appId": "com.mojang.minecraftpe",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe&hl=en&gl=US",
    "title": "Minecraft: Dream it, Build it!",
    "developer": "Mojang",
    "developerUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4772240228547998649",
    "summary": "Millions of crafters have smashed billions of blocks! Now you can join the fun!",
    "description": "Dive into an open world of building, crafting, and survival ...",
    "score": 4.31,
    "ratings": 5826908,
    "reviews": 634745,
    "installsText": "50M+",
    "installsMin": 50000000,
    "installsReal": 97132476,
    "price": 6.99,
    "currency": "USD",
    "isFree": false,
    "inAppPurchases": "$0.99 - $49.99 per item",
    "category": "Arcade",
    "categoryId": "GAME_ARCADE",
    "contentRating": "Everyone 10+",
    "version": "1.26.45.1",
    "androidVersion": "8.0",
    "released": "Aug 15, 2011",
    "updated": "Aug 19, 2026",
    "updatedAt": "2026-08-19T18:41:38Z",
    "website": "http://help.mojang.com",
    "iconUrl": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "headerImageUrl": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
    "screenshotUrls": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...", "..."],
    "country": "US",
    "language": "en",
    "status": "ok"
}
```

An app that cannot be found produces an error record instead, and is **not** charged:

```json
{
    "input": "com.does.not.exist",
    "status": "error",
    "errorCode": "NOT_FOUND",
    "error": "Google Play has no listing for com.does.not.exist in US"
}
```

Error codes: `INVALID_APP_ID`, `NOT_FOUND`, `BLOCKED`. `INPUT_TRUNCATED` appears once when your input is longer than this actor accepts.

### Related actors from steadydata

- [app-store-app-details](https://apify.com/steadydata/app-store-app-details): the same app on Apple's side
- app-store-search (publishing soon): keyword rankings in the App Store

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `app-fetched` event per delivered app. No charge for apps that
fail, no separate platform-usage surcharge.

### FAQ

**Why is `version` sometimes empty?**
Google shows "Varies with device" for apps that ship different builds per device; there
is no single version string to deliver.

**What is the difference between `installsMin` and `installsReal`?**
`installsMin` is the number behind the "50M+" label. `installsReal` is the exact install
count Google embeds in the page; it is the figure to use for analysis.

**Can I get reviews?**
Not with this actor, and not from this publisher: reviews carry reviewer names.

**Can I search by keyword or scrape the top charts?**
No. Google's robots.txt disallows the search page, so it is not used here.

**Is personal data collected?**
No. Developer name and website are company data; the developer's e-mail and postal
address are deliberately not read.

**What happens when Google changes the page?**
The listing data is a positional structure that Google reshuffles now and then. The
actor is monitored daily and fixed fast, and while it is broken you are not charged,
because only delivered apps cost anything.

# Actor input Schema

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

Google Play URLs or package names (com.example.app), one per row, up to 500. Each app is one input; an app that does not exist comes back as a free error record.

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

Two-letter store country (gl): prices, availability and installs text follow it. E.g. US, GB, NL, DE, IN.

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

Listing language (hl), e.g. en, nl, de.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.whatsapp",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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.whatsapp",
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("steadydata/google-play-app-details").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.whatsapp",
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("steadydata/google-play-app-details").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.whatsapp",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strava"
  ]
}' |
apify call steadydata/google-play-app-details --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/ibabUucBZ92WQeRrT/builds/NYJnj7YWHEWAednLF/openapi.json