Google Play Reviews Scraper — $0.08 per 1,000 reviews

Scrape Google Play app reviews for any app, at scale, for less: $0.08 / 1,000 reviews (plus a $0.01 run fee) — the lowest per-review price in this category on Apify. HTTP-only, no login, no API key, no browser, no proxy add-ons.

Give it one or more package IDs (com.whatsapp) or Play Store URLs and get back clean JSON/CSV rows with the review text, star rating, timestamp, helpful votes, the app version the user was on, and — where the developer answered — the full developer reply plus how many days the reply took.

Who uses this

• Product & support teams monitoring their own app (and their competitors') for crashes, complaints and feature requests — schedule it and only pay for new reviews with newerThanDays.
• ASO / mobile-marketing analysts mining 1-star reviews of competitor apps for positioning gaps.
• Data & ML teams building sentiment datasets: rating + text + language + country, deduplicated by review ID.
• Agencies reporting on app reputation: the run summary gives you average rating, % 1-star, developer reply rate and median reply delay per app — no post-processing needed.

What you get per review

Field	Description
appId, appTitle, appUrl	Which app the review belongs to
reviewId	Stable unique ID — safe for dedup across runs
userName	Reviewer display name
rating	1–5 stars
text	Review text (null for rating-only reviews — never a fake empty string)
reviewedAt, reviewAgeDays	ISO timestamp + age in days
thumbsUpCount	Helpful votes
appVersion	App version the reviewer was on — spot which release broke things
hasDeveloperReply, developerReplyText, developerRepliedAt	Full developer response
replyDelayDays	How long the developer took to reply — support responsiveness intel you won't find in other review scrapers
language, country, sortMode	Exactly what storefront slice this row came from

Every run also writes a SUMMARY record to the key-value store: reviews collected, average rating in the window, star histogram, % 1-star, developer reply rate, median reply delay, top app versions, plus overall app metadata (title, developer, category, lifetime score and ratings count).

Why this one

• Price: $0.08/1k vs $0.10–$6.00/1k elsewhere in the category. Filtered-out reviews (star filter is server-side, keyword filter client-side) are never charged.
• Reply intel: developer replies and reply-delay stats — most review scrapers drop or ignore replies.
• Deep history: token-based pagination up to 100,000 reviews per app per run.
• Any storefront: language + country inputs cover every Play locale (en/us, de/de, pt/br, id/id, …).
• Honest data: rating-only reviews keep text: null, timestamps are validated, zero rows are never invented. Typed output schema included — AI agents can read the shape via MCP/API before calling.

Example input

{
  "appIds": ["com.whatsapp", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.telegram.messenger"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 2000,
  "sort": "newest",
  "starsFilter": "1",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "filterKeyword": "backup"
}

→ every 1-star English/US review of WhatsApp and Telegram that mentions "backup", newest first, with developer replies attached. Cost: at most 2 × 2,000 × $0.00008 + $0.01 ≈ $0.33.

How to schedule this Actor (the right way)

Review monitoring only makes sense on a schedule:

1. Open the Actor → Schedules tab → Create new schedule (e.g. @daily).
2. Set sort = newest and newerThanDays = 1 (or 7 for weekly runs).
3. The run stops paging the moment it hits reviews older than the window — a daily WhatsApp check typically costs under a cent.
4. Add an integration (Slack/email/webhook) on the schedule to get new 1-star reviews pushed to your team, or read the SUMMARY key for the daily reply-rate numbers.

Notes & fair use

Public data only, polite request pacing, no login, no personal data beyond what Google publicly displays with each review. Rate limits are respected with retries and backoff; if Google throttles a huge run, the Actor keeps what it collected instead of failing.

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