Google Play Scraper: App Data, Developers & Categories

What does Google Play Scraper do?

Google Play Scraper returns the full Google Play listing of Android apps: name, description, price, rating and the 1–5 star breakdown, installs, version, Android requirement, release and last update dates, category, content rating, screenshots, video and developer contact (email, website, privacy policy) — in 174 countries and 80 languages, with no login, no API key and no developer account.

Give it apps (package names or Google Play links) and it also finds apps for you: every app of a developer, every app a category page lists, and the similar apps and developer's other apps each app's page shows. Each row says where the app was found and its position in that list.

Why use this Google Play scraper?

• 🕵️ Monitor competitors — know when a competitor ships an update, changes its description or price, or gains ratings and installs.
• 🧭 Map a niche — start from one app, add its similar apps, and get a spreadsheet of the whole niche with installs, ratings and update dates.
• 🏢 Every app of a developer — a studio's full Google Play catalogue in one run, by name or developer link.
• 📈 Category research and ASO — the apps Google Play shows in a category, in each section ("Popular apps", "Editors' Choice apps") and position, per country.
• 📇 Lead generation — developer email, website and privacy policy of every app, for agencies, SDK, ad-network and UA sales.
• 🤖 Feed dashboards — JSON, CSV or Excel, or straight into Google Sheets, Looker Studio or Slack through Apify integrations, or via API.

Features

• ✅ Four ways to find apps — app links or package names, developers, categories, and similar or developer apps of each app.
• ✅ Rich Google Play app data — 40+ fields per app, including the 1–5 star breakdown, installs and minimum installs, in-app purchase range and "Contains ads".
• ✅ 174 countries, 80 languages — prices, currencies, ratings, texts and the lists themselves change by country.
• ✅ Every app once — an app found by several sources is scraped and charged once per country, credited to the first.
• ✅ Fair billing — you pay per app listing returned. Developer, category and similar-app pages are free, and an app or list that doesn't exist, or a request Google Play refused, is reported in the run summary and not charged.

How to scrape Google Play

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add apps (package names or links), developers (names or links) and/or categories.
3. Optionally tick similar apps and developer apps, and set Max apps per list.
4. Pick countries and, optionally, a language.
5. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Input example

{
    "apps": ["com.duolingo", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe"],
    "developers": ["Google LLC", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6715068722362591614"],
    "categories": ["EDUCATION", "GAME_PUZZLE"],
    "includeSimilarApps": true,
    "includeDeveloperApps": false,
    "maxAppsPerSource": 50,
    "countries": ["us", "br"],
    "language": ""
}

Field	What it does
apps	Google Play package names (com.duolingo) or app links. Each one is scraped.
developers	Developer names as Google Play shows them (Duolingo, Google LLC), or developer links: …/store/apps/developer?id=Google+LLC or …/store/apps/dev?id=5700313618786177705.
categories	Google Play category ids (table below).
includeSimilarApps	For each app in apps, also scrape the apps Google Play lists as similar (up to 50).
includeDeveloperApps	For each app in apps, also scrape its developer's other apps.
maxAppsPerSource	Cap on the apps taken from each developer, category or similar-apps list, in Google Play's order. Default: every app a list shows.
countries	Two-letter country codes. Everything is read once per country. Default us.
language	Language of the listings (e.g. es-MX, pt-BR). Empty: each country's main language.

Output example

Each app in each country is one item in the dataset (texts shortened here):

{
    "store": "googlePlay",
    "appId": "com.block.juggle",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.block.juggle",
    "country": "us",
    "countryName": "United States",
    "language": "en-US",
    "languageName": "English (US)",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-29T14:01:22.152Z",
    "name": "Block Blast!",
    "summary": "Enjoy relaxing puzzle games and offline games anytime, no WiFi needed!",
    "description": "Welcome to Block Blast, a relaxing block puzzle for fans of puzzle games, offline games, and single-player games!…",
    "releaseNotes": "- Bug fixes and performance improvements.…",
    "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/5FLR-EBlfNvoV9ydZkOMDqRF10nV64XcKdZzW_oQzmz2e8Me9PS5Zncnvviki0J3XumjO2a_lg6_IdwOqwnV",
    "screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/sogNkRq2d8VqbVUlTdHi-Ni1m5DkHQmWYlvG44CJ5pD6kmtBnkX_gk3xcL1RpOPV3Q4QrQEbt_lWTbo409Wh"],
    "video": null,
    "developer": "HungryStudio",
    "developerId": "6272993483096524210",
    "developerUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6272993483096524210",
    "developerWebsite": "https://hungrystudio.com?utm_source=googleplay&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=visitwebsite",
    "developerEmail": "blockblast-support@hungrystudio.com",
    "privacyPolicyUrl": "https://hungrystudio.com/privacyus.html",
    "price": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "free": true,
    "inAppPurchases": "$4.99 - $49.99 per item",
    "containsAds": true,
    "rating": 4.8462625,
    "ratingCount": 5774581,
    "reviewCount": 78205,
    "ratingHistogram": { "1": 114661, "2": 33105, "3": 59837, "4": 210075, "5": 5356881 },
    "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
    "minInstalls": 1000000000,
    "genre": "Puzzle",
    "genreId": "GAME_PUZZLE",
    "contentRating": "Everyone",
    "version": "10.9.1",
    "minOsVersion": "7.1",
    "releasedAt": "2022-09-23T16:12:51.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-10-27T12:30:11.000Z",
    "foundVia": "category",
    "foundFrom": "GAME_PUZZLE",
    "section": "Puzzle games",
    "position": 1
}

Google Play data fields

Field	Description
store	Always googlePlay.
appId, url	Package name and Google Play page.
country, countryName, language, languageName, scrapedAt	Where, in which language and when (ISO 8601 UTC) the listing was read.
name, summary, description, releaseNotes	Texts as plain text with line breaks.
icon, screenshots, video	Image links and the promo video.
developer, developerId, developerUrl	The developer and its Google Play page (numeric id, or its name when it has no own page).
developerWebsite, developerEmail, privacyPolicyUrl	Developer contact as published on the listing.
price, currency, free, inAppPurchases, containsAds	Price in the country's currency, in-app purchase range, ads.
rating, ratingCount, reviewCount, ratingHistogram	Average rating, ratings, written reviews, and the count per star.
installs, minInstalls	Install bracket ("500,000,000+") and its number.
genre, genreId, contentRating	Category and age rating.
version, minOsVersion	Version and minimum Android version; null for apps that publish "Varies with device".
releasedAt, updatedAt	First release and last update, ISO 8601 UTC.
foundVia	app, similarApps, developerApps, developer or category.
foundFrom	The package name, developer link or category id the app was found through.
section, position	The heading of the Google Play list ("Popular apps", "Similar apps", "More by Google LLC") and the app's 1-based place in it; null for apps you gave.

The run's SUMMARY record (in the key-value store) lists apps and lists that gave nothing: not found, refused by Google Play, or listed under a developer's name but published by another developer.

How much does it cost to scrape Google Play?

US$0.001 per app listing (US$1 per 1,000 apps), one listing per app per country. Developer, category and similar-app pages are free, and so is every app or list that doesn't exist or that Google Play refused. Set a maximum cost per run in Apify and the Actor stops there.

Limits

• Developers: Google Play's pages list up to 20 apps by developer name, and up to 10 on a developer's own page (dev?id=). For a developer page that is full, the Actor also reads the developer's list by name and keeps only that developer's apps, so a large developer gives up to 30 apps. Apps beyond what Google Play shows on those pages need its internal API, which its robots.txt closes to crawlers, so they are not read.
• Categories: a category page lists 25 to 120 apps in its sections. Dating, Medical, News & Magazines, Libraries & Demo and Casino games show no apps to visitors, so they are not offered.
• Similar apps: up to 50 per app.
• No keyword search and no reviews: Google Play's search pages are closed to crawlers by robots.txt. For reviews use Google Play Reviews Scraper; for App Store and Google Play in one run, App Store & Google Play App Details Scraper.
• Requests are paced at one per second, so 100 apps take about 2 minutes. A page Google Play cuts short with a server error is asked once more. If Google Play refuses requests from the run's IP, the run stops asking, reports the rest as refused (free) and still ends successfully.

Google Play categories

Category	Id
All apps	APPLICATION
Kids	FAMILY
Watch apps	ANDROID_WEAR
Art & Design	ART_AND_DESIGN
Auto & Vehicles	AUTO_AND_VEHICLES
Beauty	BEAUTY
Books & Reference	BOOKS_AND_REFERENCE
Business	BUSINESS
Comics	COMICS
Communication	COMMUNICATION
Education	EDUCATION
Entertainment	ENTERTAINMENT
Events	EVENTS
Finance	FINANCE
Food & Drink	FOOD_AND_DRINK
Health & Fitness	HEALTH_AND_FITNESS
House & Home	HOUSE_AND_HOME
Lifestyle	LIFESTYLE
Maps & Navigation	MAPS_AND_NAVIGATION
Music & Audio	MUSIC_AND_AUDIO
Parenting	PARENTING
Personalization	PERSONALIZATION
Photography	PHOTOGRAPHY
Productivity	PRODUCTIVITY
Shopping	SHOPPING
Social	SOCIAL
Sports	SPORTS
Tools	TOOLS
Travel & Local	TRAVEL_AND_LOCAL
Video Players & Editors	VIDEO_PLAYERS
Watch faces	WATCH_FACE
Weather	WEATHER
All games	GAME
Games: Action	GAME_ACTION
Games: Adventure	GAME_ADVENTURE
Games: Arcade	GAME_ARCADE
Games: Board	GAME_BOARD
Games: Card	GAME_CARD
Games: Casual	GAME_CASUAL
Games: Educational	GAME_EDUCATIONAL
Games: Music	GAME_MUSIC
Games: Puzzle	GAME_PUZZLE
Games: Racing	GAME_RACING
Games: Role Playing	GAME_ROLE_PLAYING
Games: Simulation	GAME_SIMULATION
Games: Sports	GAME_SPORTS
Games: Strategy	GAME_STRATEGY
Games: Trivia	GAME_TRIVIA
Games: Word	GAME_WORD

Is it legal to scrape Google Play?

This Actor reads only public Google Play pages that anyone can open without an account, and only the pages Google Play's robots.txt allows (app, developer, category and similar-app pages; never search, reviews or the internal API). It never solves or bypasses a challenge. Developer contact fields are what developers publish on their listings for users to reach them; if you process them, you are responsible for doing so under the rules that apply to you (GDPR, CAN-SPAM and similar). Scraping can be against a site's terms of service; check with a lawyer if in doubt.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Google. Google Play is a trademark of Google LLC.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or an API key? No.

Why is an app missing in a country? Not every app is published in every country; it is listed in SUMMARY as not found and not charged.

Can I get the apps in a language other than the country's? Yes: pick a language; it applies to every country.

Does it work through the API? Yes. Start it with the Apify API or client libraries and read the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.