Google Play Store Reviews Scraper — Free, No API Key

Pull app reviews + metadata from the Google Play Store for any Android app, across any country, in any language. No Google API key. No service account. No auth.

✨ Why this Actor

• Free — competing Play Store scrapers on Apify charge $15-30/mo. This one is $0.
• No API key — Google's official Play Console API requires a Service Account + developer access to the app. This Actor works for any public app.
• Multi-country, multi-language — most scrapers do one locale at a time. This one sweeps countries × languages so you get the full global picture in one run.
• Includes developer replies — track how quickly devs respond to reviews and what they say.

🚀 Quick start

Scrape recent Spotify reviews across 3 countries:

{
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "countries": ["us", "gb", "in"],
  "languages": ["en"],
  "sort": "newest",
  "maxReviews": 200
}

Scrape Notion reviews in English + Spanish:

{
  "appId": "notion.id",
  "countries": ["us", "mx", "es"],
  "languages": ["en", "es"],
  "maxReviews": 500
}

Just get app metadata (no reviews):

{
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "countries": ["us"],
  "maxReviews": 0,
  "includeAppMeta": true
}

📦 Output schema

Each run produces:

• 1 app_meta row (_kind: "app_meta") — app-level data
• N review rows (_kind: "review") — one per review

App metadata row

Field	Type	Notes
id	str	Package name (input)
name	str	App title
developer, developer_id	str	Studio / publisher
score, ratings	float, int	Lifetime average + total rating count
reviews_count	int	Total reviews written
installs, real_installs	str, int	"1B+" display + precise install count
price, free	float, bool
genre, genre_id	str	Play Store category
content_rating	str	"Everyone" / "Teen" / "Mature 17+" / "Adults Only 18+"
released, updated	str/int	Release date + last-update timestamp
current_version, size	str
icon, url	str	Logo + Play Store URL
description	str	Full app description

Review row

Field	Type	Notes
id	str	Stable Google review ID
country, lang	str	The sweep that produced this row
user_name, user_image	str	Reviewer
content	str	Review body
rating	int	1-5
thumbs_up	int	Helpfulness votes
review_created_version	str	App version at time of review
at	iso8601	When review was posted
reply_content, reply_at	str, iso8601	Developer response (if any)

🎯 Use cases

• Competitor intelligence — track competitor app rating trends + spot feature complaints
• Product launch monitoring — sweep daily after a release, catch regressions fast
• Sentiment analysis — feed reviews into an LLM, surface top complaint themes
• Investor research — install counts + rating velocity = real revenue signal
• Localization QA — pull reviews per language, see what users in each market complain about
• Customer support backlog — pipe reviews into your support ticketing tool
• App Store SEO — see which keywords appear most often in 5-star vs 1-star reviews
• Acquisition due diligence — pull every review for an app you're acquiring; reviewer sentiment + dev-response speed reveal a lot

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Notes
appId	str	—	Required. Android package name. e.g. com.spotify.music. Visible in the Play URL as ?id=<package>
countries	array	["us","gb","ca","au","in","de","fr","jp","br","mx"]	ISO 2-letter codes
languages	array	["en"]	ISO 639-1 codes. Each (country × language) pair = one sweep
sort	str	newest	newest / rating / helpfulness
maxReviews	int	200	Per (country × language) combo. Total = countries × languages × maxReviews
includeAppMeta	bool	true	Prepend the app_meta row

🛠️ How it works

This Actor uses google-play-scraper, which hits the same undocumented JSON endpoints the Play Store web client uses. No HTML parsing, no anti-bot fragility — same calls Google's own frontend makes.

⚠️ Tips & caveats

• Use multiple countries — Google personalises results per locale. Different countries reveal different reviews.
• Pagination tokens expire — fetching 10,000+ reviews from one (country × language) sometimes drops the tail. If you need the full archive, run nightly with sort: newest and dedupe by id over time.
• Some countries return fewer reviews than the Play Store shows in the UI — this is a Google-side rate limit, not a scraper bug.
• The at timestamp is in UTC.

🔗 Related Actors

• iOS App Store Metadata — for the Apple side of the same app
• Reddit Subreddit + Search — search r/<app-name> for organic discussion
• YouTube Channel + Video Scraper — for video reviews of the same app

💬 Support

Bugs or custom request? Email caspersmartwater@gmail.com.

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