📱 Google Play Reviews Scraper

Scrape Google Play reviews by package ID, Google Play URL, or search query. Collect review text, ratings, dates, app versions, helpful votes, developer replies, reviewer names, reviewer images, app icons, app metadata, countries, and review languages.

The Actor runs on requests and is built for app review monitoring, sentiment analysis, competitor tracking, support QA, localization research, and product feedback workflows.

✨ What You Can Collect

• 📝 Review text, rating, review ID, publish date, reviewer name, and reviewer image
• 🖼️ App icon, app title, package ID, Google Play URL, version, genre, installs, score, ratings count, and reviews count
• 👍 Helpful vote count (thumbsUpCount)
• 🏷️ App version / review-created version when Google Play provides it
• 💬 Developer reply text and reply date
• 🗣️ Detected review language (detectedLanguage) with strict language filtering
• 🌍 Multiple countries and multiple review languages in the same run
• 🔎 Apps discovered from Google Play search queries

🧭 How It Works

flowchart LR
    A["Package IDs, app URLs, or search queries"] --> B["Discover Google Play app IDs"]
    B --> C["Fetch app metadata"]
    C --> D["Fetch review pages"]
    D --> E["Detect review text language"]
    E --> F["Apply language, rating, keyword, date, reply, and version filters"]
    F --> G["Save reviews, apps, errors, and summary datasets"]

🚀 Quick Start

📱 Scrape Reviews From One App

{
  "appIdsOrUrls": ["com.supercell.brawlstars"],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sort": "newest"
}

🔗 Scrape Reviews From a Google Play URL

{
  "appIdsOrUrls": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50
}

🔎 Find Apps by Search Query

{
  "searchQueries": ["fitness app", "habit tracker"],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 5,
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 50
}

🗣️ Scrape Several Review Languages

{
  "appIdsOrUrls": ["com.whatsapp"],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en", "ru", "es", "de", "fr"],
  "customReviewLanguages": ["sv"],
  "strictReviewLanguage": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}

⭐ Monitor Negative Reviews

{
  "appIdsOrUrls": ["com.supercell.brawlstars"],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "ratings": ["1", "2"],
  "recentDays": 30,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "sort": "newest"
}

🐞 Find Reviews About Bugs or Subscriptions

{
  "appIdsOrUrls": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "keywords": ["bug", "crash", "subscription", "payment"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100
}

🧩 Collect App Details Only

{
  "searchQueries": ["budget planner"],
  "maxAppsPerSearch": 10,
  "countries": ["us"],
  "reviewLanguages": ["en"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 0,
  "outputMode": "apps"
}

⚙️ Input Schema

Field	Type	Description
appIdsOrUrls	array	Google Play package IDs or full app URLs. Use this for exact app targets.
searchQueries	array	Google Play search terms used to discover app IDs before scraping reviews.
maxAppsPerSearch	integer	Number of apps to take from each search query.
countries	array	Google Play country codes such as us, gb, de, fr, br, jp.
reviewLanguages	array	Review text languages to collect, such as en, ru, es, de, fr, pt-BR.
customReviewLanguages	array	Extra Google Play language codes not shown in the dropdown.
strictReviewLanguage	boolean	Detects review text language and skips reviews written in other languages. Enabled by default.
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	Maximum matching reviews per app, country, and review language. Use 0 for app details only.
sort	string	Review order: newest, relevant, or rating.
ratings	array	Keep only selected star ratings. Leave empty for all ratings.
keywords	array	Keep reviews containing at least one word or phrase. Case-insensitive.
excludeKeywords	array	Skip reviews containing any listed word or phrase. Case-insensitive.
dateFrom / dateTo	string	Keep reviews inside a date range. Format: YYYY-MM-DD.
recentDays	integer	Keep only reviews from the last N days. Use 0 to disable.
onlyWithDeveloperReply	boolean	Keep only reviews with a developer reply.
onlyWithoutDeveloperReply	boolean	Keep only reviews without a developer reply.
appVersions	array	Keep reviews from exact app versions.
outputMode	string	Default dataset content: reviews, apps, or both.
includeAppDetails	boolean	Adds app title, icon, score, installs, developer, genre, version, and URL.
dedupe	boolean	Removes duplicate reviews across repeated app/country/language combinations.
fetchPageSize	integer	Number of reviews requested per page before local filters are applied.
maxPagesPerApp	integer	Pagination safety limit for strict filters.
maxConcurrency	integer	Number of app/country/language jobs running in parallel.
requestDelayMs	integer	Optional delay between review page requests.

📦 Output Schema

📝 Review Item

{
  "itemType": "review",
  "reviewId": "fae2f69e-3186-4248-b322-01a24f56c1d1",
  "appId": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
  "appTitle": "Brawl Stars",
  "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.supercell.brawlstars&hl=en&gl=us",
  "appIcon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "detectedLanguage": "en",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Great game...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-01T11:26:12+00:00",
  "timestamp": 1782905172,
  "appVersion": "68.250",
  "reviewCreatedVersion": "68.250",
  "thumbsUpCount": 0,
  "developerReplyText": "Thanks for your feedback!",
  "developerReplyDate": "2026-07-01T13:10:00+00:00",
  "reviewerName": "Alex",
  "reviewerImage": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "position": 1,
  "crawledAt": "2026-07-02T09:00:00+00:00"
}

📱 App Item

{
  "itemType": "app",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "appUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en&gl=us",
  "appIcon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/...",
  "developer": "Spotify AB",
  "genre": "Music & Audio",
  "score": 4.3,
  "ratingsCount": 32500000,
  "reviewsCount": 1200000,
  "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
  "version": "Varies with device",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

🗂️ Datasets

flowchart TD
    A["Default dataset"] --> B["Reviews only"]
    A --> C["Apps only"]
    A --> D["Apps and reviews"]
    E["apps dataset"] --> F["App metadata"]
    G["errors dataset"] --> H["Invalid inputs or failed app/language jobs"]
    I["summary dataset"] --> J["Counters, filters, runtime, duplicates, empty locales"]

• 📋 Default dataset: controlled by outputMode
• 📱 apps: app-level metadata
• ⚠️ errors: invalid inputs or failed app/country/language jobs
• 📊 summary: run counters, filters, runtime, duplicate count, and empty locale count

💡 Notes

Google Play may return ratings without written text. This Actor saves written reviews returned by Google Play. Reviewer images are shown when Google Play provides them; sometimes Google returns a default profile image instead of a personal avatar.

Strict review language filtering is enabled by default. The Actor requests a Google Play locale and also checks the detected language of each review text before saving it.

🙋 Feature Requests and Bug Reports

If you need a new field, filter, export format, language, country setup, or workflow, message me on Apify or open an issue on the Actor page.

If you find a bug, please include:

• 📱 App package ID or Google Play URL
• 🌍 Country and review language
• ⚙️ Input settings
• 🧾 Run ID
• ✅ What you expected to get
• ❌ What you received instead

I use this information to reproduce issues faster and ship fixes cleanly.