Google Play Store — Review Mining & ASO Intelligence 📱

Mine Google Play reviews for bugs, feature requests and sentiment · track keyword search rankings (ASO) · monitor competitor apps. No API key, no login.

A focused app market-intelligence tool for Google Play (Android), built for two audiences:

• 👩‍💻 App developers & product teams — pull and filter reviews to surface complaints (≤2★), feature requests and version-specific feedback.
• 📈 App marketers (ASO) — track where apps rank for keywords, and monitor competitor installs, ratings and update cadence.

Google Play has no official API — this Actor reads Google's internal JSON endpoints (no key). Pairs perfectly with an App Store (iOS) scraper for full cross-platform coverage.

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Three modes

• ⭐ Reviews (mining) — reviews for any app, sortable, filterable by star rating. Isolate 1–2★ complaints or 5★ praise.
• 📱 App details (competitor tracking) — full metadata: installs, ratings histogram, price/IAP, developer, category, version, last-updated.
• 🔎 Search / ASO — keyword search results with rank position for keyword-rank tracking.

Features

• ✅ No API key — works out of the box.
• ✅ Complaint mining — maxScore: 2 to pull only negative reviews (bugs & churn signals).
• ✅ Rank tracking — every search result carries its rank for ASO monitoring.
• ✅ Any storefront — country + language selectable.
• ✅ Proxy-ready — route through Apify Proxy (RESIDENTIAL recommended) since Google throttles datacenter IPs.

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Input

Field	Description
Mode	reviews / app-details / search.
App IDs or URLs	Package names or Play URLs (reviews, app-details).
Search queries	Keywords to rank-track (search mode).
Review sort / min / max rating	Order and star-rating filters.
Country / Language	Storefront and locale.
Max reviews per app	Cap per app.
Proxy	Apify Proxy (RESIDENTIAL recommended).

Example — mine 1–2★ complaints

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxScore": 2,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Example — track keyword ranks (ASO)

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQueries": ["vpn", "photo editor", "budget tracker"],
  "searchDepth": 50
}

Output

Review row:

{
  "type": "review",
  "app_id": "com.spotify.music",
  "review_id": "…",
  "user_name": "…",
  "score": 2,
  "content": "Keeps crashing after the latest update…",
  "thumbs_up": 14,
  "at": "2025-01-14T09:22:10",
  "reply_content": null,
  "app_version": "8.9.1"
}

Search rows carry query + rank + app stats; app-details rows carry installs, ratings, price/IAP, developer, category and version.

Run it on a schedule

Schedule the Actor to watch new 1–2★ reviews for your app (or a competitor's), or to track keyword ranks over time — then pipe changes to Slack / Google Sheets / a webhook.

Notes & limitations

• Google Play has no official API; endpoints are unofficial and can change.
• Google throttles datacenter IPs — use a RESIDENTIAL proxy for reliable cloud runs.
• Public app-listing and review data.
• Data source: Google Play Store.

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