# Google Play Reviews Scraper: Stars & Replies, $0.10 per 1,000 (`trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Get the reviews of any Android app on Google Play: stars, text, date, likes, app version and the developer's reply. Sort by newest, most relevant or rating, filter by stars, any country and language. Fast and cheap: no proxy needed for most runs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Trueline Data](https://apify.com/trueline-data) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, Developer tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.10 / 1,000 reviews

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Google Play Reviews Scraper: Stars & Replies, $0.10 per 1,000

Get the reviews of any Android app on Google Play as clean rows:

- **Stars, review text and date** (ISO time).
- **"Helpful" votes** (thumbs up) and the **app version** the reviewer used.
- **The developer's reply** and its date, when there is one.
- **Reviewer name and picture.**
- **One free row per app**: name, developer, category, content rating, star rating and rating count.

### Why this one

- **Sort like the Play Store**: newest, most relevant or highest rating.
- **Filter by stars**: get only the 1-star reviews, or only the 5-star ones.
- **Any country and language**: for example `es` + `mx` for reviews written in Spanish in Mexico.
- **Fast and cheap.** It reads the Play Store's own data, 40 reviews per request, with no browser and,
  for most runs, no proxy. If Google blocks the run, it switches to residential IPs by itself.
- **You pay only for reviews.** App rows, apps with no reviews and errors are free.

### Input

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `apps` | App URLs or package names such as `com.whatsapp`. |
| `maxReviews` | Max reviews per app. |
| `sortBy` | `newest`, `relevant` or `rating`. |
| `stars` | `all`, or `1` to `5`. |
| `language`, `country` | Such as `en` and `us`. |
| `includeAppDetails` | One free app row per app. |

```json
{
  "apps": ["https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"],
  "maxReviews": 500,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "stars": "1"
}
```

### Output

One `app` row per app, then one `review` row per review.

Real rows from a test run on 17 October 2026 (some fields left out to keep it short):

```json
[
  {
    "type": "app",
    "appId": "com.whatsapp",
    "appName": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "developer": "WhatsApp LLC",
    "category": "COMMUNICATION",
    "rating": 4.62,
    "ratingCount": 245893315
  },
  {
    "type": "review",
    "appId": "com.whatsapp",
    "appName": "WhatsApp Messenger",
    "reviewId": "858b4f41-3c1f-4f5c-bb4c-b7fb3339e81d",
    "userName": "Butterfly King",
    "stars": 5,
    "text": "good",
    "date": "2026-10-16T09:53:13Z",
    "thumbsUp": 0,
    "appVersion": "2.26.40.76",
    "developerReply": null
  }
]
```

### Pricing

Pay per review returned.

# Actor input Schema

## `apps` (type: `array`):

Google Play app URLs (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…) or package names such as com.whatsapp.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many reviews for each app.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

The order Google Play gives the reviews in.

## `stars` (type: `string`):

Keep only reviews with this many stars.

## `language` (type: `string`):

Language code such as en, es, de, pt. Google Play shows reviews written in this language.

## `country` (type: `string`):

Two-letter country code such as us, gb, mx.

## `includeAppDetails` (type: `boolean`):

One free row per app with its name, developer, category, rating and rating count.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many apps to work on in parallel.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed for most runs. The tool goes direct and switches to residential IPs on its own if Google blocks it. Set a proxy here only to force your own.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "stars": "all",
  "language": "en",
  "country": "us",
  "includeAppDetails": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "apps": [
        "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "apps": ["https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,trueline-data/google-play-reviews-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AJseTR2xgABQzJTJe/builds/XdzCryXcF8zvcedov/openapi.json