Google Play Reviews Scraper - Ratings, Replies and App Versions

Scrape Google Play app reviews: star rating, review text, date, thumbs-up count, app version and developer reply. Give package names or Play Store URLs, get one flat JSON item per review.

What it does

• Takes a list of Google Play apps (appIds): package names such as com.spotify.music or app page URLs such as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music.
• Returns up to maxItems reviews per app, sorted by newest, most relevant or rating, optionally filtered by star rating (1 to 5).
• Reads reviews from the JSON endpoint that the Google Play web page itself uses, in pages of up to 200 reviews, and the app title from the app page's structured data (JSON-LD).
• Reviews are deduplicated by reviewId. Reviewer names are pseudonymised (Maria G.).
• Every field is flat (no nested objects); dates are ISO 8601 UTC; missing values are null.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
appIds	array of strings	Yes	—	Package names (com.spotify.music) or Play Store app URLs. Duplicates and invalid entries are skipped.
maxItems	integer	No	100	Maximum reviews returned per app (1 to 10,000).
sortBy	string	No	newest	newest, most_relevant (Google Play's default order) or rating.
filterByStar	string	No	all	all, or 1 to 5 to keep only reviews with that star rating.
language	string	No	en	Review language (en, fr, de, pt-BR...). Google Play returns reviews written in this language.
country	string	No	us	Play Store country (us, gb, fr, in...).

Example:

{
    "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"],
    "maxItems": 200,
    "sortBy": "newest",
    "filterByStar": "1",
    "language": "en",
    "country": "us"
}

Output

One dataset item per review (real output, text shortened):

{
    "reviewId": "68827b7f-fc86-4af3-9d57-2d2621546814",
    "appId": "com.spotify.music",
    "appTitle": "Spotify: Musique & podcasts",
    "rating": 2,
    "text": "ça fait un moment que j'utilise Spotify avec un compte classique avec pub...",
    "author": "Leeroy D.",
    "date": "2026-09-15T08:15:13+00:00",
    "thumbsUpCount": 36,
    "appVersion": "9.1.80.2221",
    "replyText": null,
    "replyDate": null,
    "language": "fr",
    "country": "fr",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-28T06:41:44.294768+00:00"
}

Field	Description
reviewId	Google Play review identifier
appId, appTitle	Package name and app name
rating	Stars, 1 to 5
text	Review text
author	Reviewer, pseudonymised as first name + last initial
date	Review date (ISO 8601, UTC)
thumbsUpCount	Users who marked the review as helpful
appVersion	App version used by the reviewer (null when Google Play does not show it)
replyText, replyDate	Developer reply and its date (null when there is no reply)
language, country	Language and country requested
scrapedAt	Extraction time

Pricing

Pay-per-event, no start fee: $0.07 per 1,000 reviews on the Apify Free plan, lower on paid plans.

Event	Free	Starter	Scale	Business	Enterprise
REVIEW	$0.07	$0.06	$0.053	$0.042	$0.042

Prices in USD per 1,000 events. One REVIEW event is charged per review returned; nothing is charged for apps that are not found or have no matching reviews. The run stops cleanly when the maximum cost per run you set is reached.

Limitations

• Google Play returns reviews by language: language decides which reviews you get, and an app may have few or no reviews in a given language.
• The rating sort and the star filter are applied by Google Play; reviews are returned in the order it chooses.
• appVersion is missing on some reviews (between 2 % and 18 % of reviews depending on the app, in our tests) because Google Play does not show it for them.
• Only public data shown on Google Play is collected: no reviewer profile, e-mail or device details. Reviewer names are pseudonymised.
• Very deep pagination (tens of thousands of reviews for one app) depends on Google Play continuing to return next-page tokens.