Google Play Store Scraper

Extract apps and their reviews from play.google.com at scale, in one run. App metadata, multi-country pricing, and full review histories including developer replies. No API key required.

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Why this scraper?

🎯 Built for play.google.com

A dedicated global scraper tuned for play.google.com — its categories, price formats and currency (USD), not a generic tool pointed at it.

💶 Structured pricing

Current price as a clean number in USD, plus discounts and previous prices where the source shows them. Items without a published price return null, never a guess.

📄 Full item content

Complete description and title for every record, with a direct link back to the source.

⭐ Apps and reviews in one run

Search for 50 apps and pull their reviews in the same run. No chaining a second actor, no re-keying app IDs, one bill. Or run reviews on their own with mode: "reviews".

💬 Developer replies

Every review carries the developer's reply text and reply date when one exists, plus the app version the review was written against. Other Play Store review scrapers return neither.

📅 Exact date windows

Ask for the last 7 days and you get the last 7 days — all of them. Reviews are pulled newest-first and the scraper stops the moment it crosses your cutoff, so a date window is complete, not a sample of whatever fell inside a fixed page budget.

🔓 No caps

No run limits, no review limits, no separate free-tier ceiling. Set the number you need.

🧭 Ranking, not just metadata

Every app carries discoveryRank — its position in the search results, top chart, developer catalogue or similar-apps cluster that produced it. That is the ASO signal most scrapers throw away.

🔬 Review aspects nobody else returns

About 29% of reviews carry Google's structured aspect ratings — performance, usability, battery efficiency, ad frequency, named features. Returned as reviewCriteria. No other Google Play scraper exposes these.

🔐 Permissions and related apps

Optional per-app enrichment: full Android permission groups, and the apps Google shows as related.

📊 Real top charts — free, paid and grossing

All three Google Play charts, per category and per country, with the rank on every record. Top grossing is the revenue ranking — the one that shows who is actually making money, not just who is getting installed.

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Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"search"	How to find apps. 'search' uses a keyword, 'apps' takes exact app IDs, 'developer' lists a developer's apps, 'collection' scrapes a top chart, 'startUrls' takes full Play Store URLs.
searchTerm	string	"podcast"	Keyword to search the Play Store (used in 'search' mode). Example: "podcast", "photo editor".
appIds	array	["com.spotify.music"]	Exact Google Play app IDs or full app URLs (used in 'apps' mode). Example: com.spotify.music
developerId	string	(empty)	Developer ID or name to list all of a developer's apps (used in 'developer' mode). Example: "Spotify AB".
collection	string	"apps"	Deprecated shortcut — use categoryId and chartType.
chartType	string	"topFree"	topFree, topPaid or topGrossing. Top grossing is the revenue ranking.
categoryId	string	(empty)	Restrict browsing to a category. Examples: GAME_ACTION, GAME_PUZZLE, MUSIC_AND_AUDIO, PRODUCTIVITY, SOCIAL, FINANCE, TOOLS, PHOTOGRAPHY. Leave empty for the overall top chart.
startUrls	array	(empty)	Full Google Play app detail URLs (used in 'startUrls' mode).
country	string	"US"	Storefront country. Drives currency, ratings and localized metadata.
language	string	(empty)	Two-letter UI language override. Leave empty to use the country's default language.
priceCountries	array	(empty)	Add country codes to fetch each app's price in multiple storefronts in one run (added to a priceByCountry field). Example: ["US","GB","JP","BR"]. No competitor offers this.
maxResults	integer	5	Maximum number of apps to return.
priceFilter	string	"all"	Filter by price.
minPrice	integer	(empty)	Minimum price in the storefront currency (paid apps).
maxPrice	integer	(empty)	Maximum price in the storefront currency.
minScore	integer	(empty)	Minimum star rating (0–5). Accepts decimals. Apps with no rating are excluded when set.
minInstalls	integer	(empty)	Minimum number of installs.
contentRatings	array	(empty)	Keep only apps whose content rating contains one of these terms (e.g. Everyone, Teen, Mature). Matches across ESRB/PEGI/USK.
genres	array	(empty)	Keep only apps whose genre contains one of these terms (e.g. Music, Action, Productivity).
adsFilter	string	"all"	Filter by whether the app contains ads.
iapFilter	string	"all"	Filter by whether the app offers in-app purchases.
includePermissions	boolean	false	Add the Android permissions each app requests, grouped by category.
includeSimilarApps	boolean	false	Add a similarApps list of related app IDs to every app record.
customMapFunction	string	(empty)	JavaScript applied to every record before saving. Return the transformed record, or null to drop it.
includeReviews	boolean	false	Fetch reviews for every app the run returns. Works with every mode.
maxReviewsPerApp	integer	100	Maximum reviews per app. No account-level cap — set this as high as you need.
sortReviewsBy	string	"newest"	newest, mostRelevant or rating. Forced to newest when a date filter is set, because that is the only order in which a date window can be pulled completely.
reviewDaysOld	integer	(empty)	Only reviews posted within this many days. The pull stops at the cutoff, so the window is exact.
reviewsSince	string	(empty)	Only reviews on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Overrides reviewDaysOld.
reviewRatings	array	(empty)	Keep only these star ratings, e.g. ["1","2"] for complaints only.
reviewKeywords	array	(empty)	Keep only reviews whose text contains one of these words, case-insensitive.
reviewsUntil	string	(empty)	Only reviews on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Combine with reviewsSince for a closed window.
reviewReplyFilter	string	"all"	all, with, or without. without surfaces complaints that were never answered.
minReviewLength	integer	(empty)	Keep only reviews of at least this many characters. Filters out one-word reviews.
reviewsWithReplyOnly	boolean	false	Deprecated — use reviewReplyFilter. Kept so existing runs keep working.
reviewAppVersions	array	(empty)	Keep only reviews written against these app versions.
minThumbsUp	integer	(empty)	Keep only reviews with at least this many helpful votes.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": false}	Google Play is reachable without a proxy. Proxy is optional and off by default — you do not pay any proxy or compute cost; only per result.

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Output schema

Every field below is present on every record. Fields the source does not publish for a given item are returned as null rather than omitted.

Field	Type	Description
appId	string	App id.
url	string	Direct link to the item.
title	string	Item title as published.
summary	string	Summary.
descriptionHtml	string	Full item description in HTML.
descriptionText	string	Description text.
descriptionMarkdown	string	Description markdown.
developer	string	Developer.
developerId	string	Developer id.
developerWebsite	string	Developer website.
genre	string	Genre.
genreId	string	Genre id.
additionalGenres	array	Additional genres.
additionalGenreIds	array	Additional genre ids.
icon	string	Icon.
headerImage	string	Header image.
screenshots	array	Screenshots.
screenshotCount	number	Screenshot count.
video	string	Video.
videoImage	string	Video image.
score	number	Score.
scoreText	string	Score text.
ratings	number	Ratings.
reviews	number	Reviews.
histogram.1	number	1.
histogram.2	number	2.
histogram.3	number	3.
histogram.4	number	4.
histogram.5	number	5.
price	number	Current price (null when no price is published).
priceText	string	Price text.
currency	string	Currency code of the price.
free	boolean	Free.
offersIAP	boolean	Offers iap.
inAppPurchases	string	In app purchases.
iapMinPrice	number	Iap min price.
iapMaxPrice	number	Iap max price.
iapCurrency	string	Iap currency.
adSupported	boolean	Ad supported.
containsAds	boolean	Contains ads.
installs	string	Installs.
minInstalls	number	Min installs.
realInstalls	number	Real installs.
released	string	Released.
updated	string	Updated.
updatedTimestamp	number	Updated timestamp.
version	string	Version.
targetSdkVersion	number	Target sdk version.
minSdkVersion	number	Min sdk version.
minAndroidVersion	string	Min android version.
contentRating	string	Content rating.
contentRatingIcon	string	Content rating icon.
privacyPolicy	string	Privacy policy.
dataSafety.dataShared	string	Data shared.
dataSafety.dataCollected	string	Data collected.
dataSafety.securityPractices	array	Security practices.
country	string	Country.
language	string	Language.
scrapedAt	string	Timestamp when this record was scraped.

App enrichment fields

Field	Type	Description
recentChanges	string	The app's "What's New" release notes, as Markdown. null when the developer publishes none.
discoveryRank	integer	1-based position in the list that produced this app — search results, top chart, developer catalogue or similar-apps cluster.
discoveryMode	string	Which mode produced the app: search, apps, developer, collection, startUrls or similar.
chartType	string	In collection mode, which chart the app was ranked in: topFree, topPaid or topGrossing. null in other modes.
permissions	array	Only with includePermissions. Objects of {group, permissions[]} — e.g. {"group": "Location", "permissions": ["precise location (GPS and network-based)"]}.
permissionCount	integer	Only with includePermissions. Total permissions requested across all groups.
similarApps	array	Only with includeSimilarApps. App IDs Google shows as related on the detail page.

Review records

Review records carry itemType: "review"; app records carry itemType: "app". Both land in the same dataset, so a single run gives you apps and their reviews together — filter on itemType to split them.

Field	Type	Description
itemType	string	Always "review" on review records.
reviewId	string	Google's unique review identifier.
appId	string	Package name of the app the review belongs to.
appTitle	string	App title. null in reviews mode, where no app record is fetched.
rating	integer	Star rating, 1 to 5.
text	string	Review body. null when the user left a rating with no text.
authorName	string	Reviewer's display name as published by Google.
authorAvatarUrl	string	Reviewer's public avatar image URL.
reviewDate	string	Date posted, YYYY-MM-DD.
reviewDateISO	string	Full ISO 8601 timestamp of posting.
thumbsUpCount	integer	Helpful votes. 0 when nobody has voted.
reviewAppVersion	string	App version the review was written against (null on a small share of records).
reviewCriteria	array	Google's structured aspect ratings for this review — objects of {criteria, criteriaKey, rating}, e.g. {"criteria": "battery efficiency", "rating": 3}. Present on roughly 29% of reviews. Empty array when Google tags none.
textLength	integer	Character count of the review text. 0 for rating-only reviews.
developerReplied	boolean	Whether the developer replied to this review.
developerReplyText	string	The developer's reply, verbatim. null when there is no reply.
developerReplyDate	string	Date of the reply, YYYY-MM-DD. null when there is no reply.
developerReplyDateISO	string	Full ISO 8601 timestamp of the reply.
country	string	Storefront the review was pulled from.
language	string	UI language the review was pulled under.
reviewUrl	string	Direct link to the review on Google Play.
source	string	Always play.google.com.
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of extraction.

Reviewer Google account IDs are exposed by the source but are never included in the output.

Example review record

{
  "itemType": "review",
  "reviewId": "eeadc6e6-1b5d-4d1c-889a-92f9207f04e1",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: Music and Podcasts",
  "rating": 1,
  "text": "Playlists keep disappearing after the last update and shuffle ignores my settings.",
  "authorName": "Naitik",
  "authorAvatarUrl": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJdKJQSkJl8sCFmylTFcYRhXC4PRQbjZF8KA3Xpagu1WXNeaw=mo",
  "reviewDate": "2026-07-12",
  "reviewDateISO": "2026-07-12T16:50:54.000Z",
  "thumbsUpCount": 34,
  "reviewAppVersion": "9.1.60.1970",
  "developerReplied": true,
  "developerReplyText": "Hi. Thanks for sharing your experience. Our catalog depends on permissions from rights holders, and we're passing this on to the team.",
  "developerReplyDate": "2026-07-12",
  "developerReplyDateISO": "2026-07-12T19:39:12.000Z",
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "reviewUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&reviewId=eeadc6e6-1b5d-4d1c-889a-92f9207f04e1",
  "source": "play.google.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-13T17:03:54.737Z"
}

Example record

{
  "appId": "com.whatsapp",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp",
  "title": "WhatsApp Messenger",
  "summary": "Simple. Reliable. Private.",
  "descriptionHtml": "WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your frie …",
  "descriptionText": "WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your frie …",
  "descriptionMarkdown": "WhatsApp from Meta is a FREE messaging and video calling app. It’s used by over 2B people in more than 180 countries. It’s simple, reliable, and private, so you can easily keep in touch with your frie …",
  "developer": "WhatsApp LLC",
  "developerId": "WhatsApp LLC",
  "developerWebsite": "http://www.whatsapp.com/",
  "genre": "Communication",
  "genreId": "COMMUNICATION",
  "additionalGenres": [],
  "additionalGenreIds": [],
  "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/Gqxk4T0uZsDwFp07DE-508hkyvcNmgFuRwPiwTEfF7D7OzGv1FdHDzEyMxNsSBZLOJlGpe3ULvVM2RgrRAlBqA",
  "headerImage": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/eLX_xvno2Kq_zvpkkP8yPBRfo2TEQSrv7m7WrQ6xloPsDRJ85XQ28kGYuoR-_EBWh2Uoq2GMlDvlBEIxHRyhuSg",
  "screenshots": [
    "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/GQF4h3VL-kklOrVS_f1QRAJJZa2zQyVNcFbKdOIkvI_Pcu1op0Sy3uiryiTxpdcCDs7vEDA9eq0eWbxo0f …",
    "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/Q042rTbs53V_jW_c5fMqnNLCf-FBKiO2KiFKJJACa65oMCkaxqDSFKPQ7TH8nYetS-js-fMV7ptXSsF-aC …",
    "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/EefxorXU8H0etXPHJsq4Nao8Npj7FqVT_h5rumnUS9KvIN7i-3WRotwduyEGi1Zg33BFHcuYRjQ0i01I3z …",
    "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/ZXrWYqhvVeKjNeYwIfLWBcjTXSLG_MuRtvSJ3ve51Kbibq7FHIOJGN5OsyAv7Pj7Ks9D-kbzGQnrG7NR04 …"
  ],
  "screenshotCount": 9,
  "video": null,
  "videoImage": null,
  "score": 4.65472,
  "scoreText": "4.7",
  "ratings": 237692131,
  "reviews": 1962829,
  "histogram": {
    "1": 9142122,
    "2": 2860732,
    "3": 7824907,
    "4": 21269757,
    "5": 196594562
  },
  "price": 0,
  "priceText": "Free",
  "currency": "USD",
  "free": true,
  "offersIAP": true,
  "inAppPurchases": "$0.40 - $199.99 per item",
  "iapMinPrice": 0.4,
  "iapMaxPrice": 199.99,
  "iapCurrency": "$",
  "adSupported": false,
  "containsAds": false,
  "installs": "10,000,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 10000000000,
  "realInstalls": 12052044334,
  "released": "Oct 18, 2010",
  "updated": "Jun 25, 2026",
  "updatedTimestamp": 1782365270,
  "version": null,
  "targetSdkVersion": 34,
  "minSdkVersion": null,
  "minAndroidVersion": null,
  "contentRating": "Everyone",
  "contentRatingIcon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/IciOnDFecb5Xt50Q2jlcNC0LPI7LEGxNojroo-s3AozcyS-vDCwtq4fn7u3wZmRna8OewG9PBrWC-i7i",
  "privacyPolicy": "https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy",
  "dataSafety": {
    "dataShared": "Learn more about how developers declare sharing",
    "dataCollected": "Location, Personal info and 5 others",
    "securityPractices": [
      "Data is encrypted in transit",
      "You can request that data be deleted"
    ]
  },
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-27T05:32:58.615Z"
}

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Examples

Search for fitness:

{
  "searchTerm": "fitness",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Cap the price:

{
  "searchTerm": "fitness",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPrice": 39.99
}

Scrape a specific search URL:

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.play.google.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 200
}

Daily monitoring (run on a schedule):

{
  "searchTerm": "fitness",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Schedule this input to run once a day in the Apify Scheduler to track prices, stock and new items over time.

Every 1-star review of a competitor app, last 30 days, with the developer's replies:

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "reviewRatings": ["1"],
  "reviewDaysOld": 30,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 5000
}

Search a category and pull each app's recent reviews in the same run:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerm": "meditation",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "reviewDaysOld": 14
}

Find out what users say about crashes since the last release:

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "reviewKeywords": ["crash", "freeze", "bug"],
  "reviewAppVersions": ["9.1.60.1970"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 1000
}

Top grossing finance apps in Japan:

{
  "mode": "collection",
  "chartType": "topGrossing",
  "categoryId": "FINANCE",
  "country": "JP",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Audit how a competitor handles complaints:

{
  "mode": "reviews",
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music"],
  "reviewsWithReplyOnly": true,
  "reviewRatings": ["1", "2"],
  "reviewsSince": "2026-01-01",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 2000
}

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💰 Pricing

Two separate rates. You only pay for records actually saved — filtered-out apps and reviews are never charged, and failed retries are never charged.

Apps — $0.69 per 1,000

Apps	Cost
100	~$0.07
1,000	~$0.69
10,000	~$6.90
100,000	~$69

Subscription tiers lower this to $0.39 per 1,000 at the highest tier.

Reviews — $0.05 per 1,000

Reviews	Cost
1,000	~$0.05
10,000	~$0.50
100,000	~$5.00
1,000,000	~$50

Flat $0.05 per 1,000 on every tier — no subscription needed to get the best rate.

Other Google Play review scrapers charge around $0.13 per 1,000 and cap free accounts at 500 reviews. There is no cap here.

Use Max results and Max reviews per app to control your spend exactly.

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Performance

Run size	Typical time
100 apps	under 1 minute
1,000 apps	2–4 minutes
1,000 reviews (one app)	under 30 seconds
10,000 reviews (one app)	2–4 minutes

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Known limitations

• Google no longer offers a server-side rating filter on reviews. reviewRatings and reviewKeywords are applied after fetching — no scraper can do better, but you are only billed for the reviews that match.
• reviewAppVersion is absent on a small share of reviews, mostly older ones.
• Developer replies are uncommon in absolute terms — typically under 10% of reviews, concentrated on low ratings.
• Reviews are storefront-scoped: country and language determine which pool you see. To cover several markets, run once per storefront.
• Very large result sets are bounded by the source's own paging limits.
• reviewCriteria is present on roughly 29% of reviews — Google tags them selectively. An empty array is correct, not a failure.
• Developer contact emails are published by Google but are not returned. A large share are personal addresses, and harvesting them at scale is not something we do.

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Technical details

• Source: play.google.com — app metadata and reviews
• Coverage: everything the public store exposes, filterable via the input parameters above
• Storefronts: 55 countries; reviews and pricing are pulled per storefront
• Retry: automatic retry on network errors with exponential backoff

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