# Google Play Reviews — App Review Scraper by Package (`v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews`) Actor Pull Google Play Store reviews for any Android app via the public review batchexecute endpoint. One row per review with author, rating, body, date, thumbsUp, replyText, replyDate. Specify maxReviewsPerApp. - **URL**: https://apify.com/v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews.md - **Developed by:** [vøiddo](https://apify.com/v0iddo) (community) - **Categories:** Business - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $0.30 / 1,000 google play review extracteds 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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. Actors are written with capital "A". ## 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. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Google Play Reviews — App Review Scraper by Package Pull Google Play Store reviews for any Android app via the public `batchexecute/UsvDTd` RPC endpoint. One row per review with author, rating, body, date, thumbsUp, replyText, and replyDate. Specify a list of package IDs and a per-app review cap — the actor handles cursor pagination automatically. --- ### Example output row ```json { "reviewId": "gp:AOqpTOF3k2WY8rJ_vQ...", "package": "com.whatsapp", "author": "Jane D.", "rating": 5, "title": null, "body": "Works flawlessly even on a slow connection. Five stars.", "thumbsUp": 47, "postedAt": "2024-03-15T11:22:00+00:00", "replyText": "Thanks for the kind words! — WhatsApp team", "replyAt": "2024-03-16T08:05:00+00:00" } ```` *** ### How to use Supply a JSON input matching the schema below when starting the actor. ```json { "packages": ["com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo"], "country": "us", "language": "en", "maxReviewsPerApp": 100 } ``` | Field | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `packages` | `string[]` | `["com.whatsapp","com.spotify.music","com.duolingo"]` | Android package IDs to scrape | | `country` | `string` | `"us"` | 2-letter country code for review locale | | `language` | `string` | `"en"` | 2-letter language code | | `maxReviewsPerApp` | `integer` | `100` | Maximum reviews fetched per package (up to 400 across 10 pages) | *** ### Pricing | Event | Price | |---|---| | `review_extracted` — one Google Play Store review row in the dataset | **$0.0003** | You pay only for rows actually written to the dataset. A run that pulls 500 reviews costs $0.15. *** ### Buyer - **App developers** monitoring user sentiment and competitor feedback on their Play Store listing. - **Market researchers** comparing ratings and common complaints across a category (e.g. all top-10 fitness apps). - **Reputation-management agencies** tracking a client's review volume and response rate over time. - **Data science teams** building NLP models or sentiment classifiers on real mobile app review text. - **Competitor analysts** looking for feature gaps by mining 1-star reviews of rival apps. *** ### Source Reviews are fetched from the Google Play public RPC endpoint: ``` POST https://play.google.com/_/PlayStoreUi/data/batchexecute?rpcids=UsvDTd&hl={language}&gl={country} ``` The request body is a `f.req=` form-encoded batchexecute payload using the `UsvDTd` RPC ID. No authentication or API key is required. Pagination uses the `continuationToken` returned in each response. Up to 10 pages of 40 reviews each are fetched per app (max 400 reviews per package per run). # Actor input Schema ## `packages` (type: `array`): Android app package IDs (com.dev.app) ## `country` (type: `string`): 2-letter country code for review locale ## `language` (type: `string`): 2-letter language code ## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`): Cap reviews per app ## Actor input object example ```json { "packages": [ "com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo" ], "country": "us", "language": "en", "maxReviewsPerApp": 100 } ``` # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "packages": [ "com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "packages": [ "com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "packages": [ "com.whatsapp", "com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo" ] }' | apify call v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=v0iddo/google-play-app-reviews", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Google Play Reviews — App Review Scraper by Package", "description": "Pull Google Play Store reviews for any Android app via the public review batchexecute endpoint. One row per review with author, rating, body, date, thumbsUp, replyText, replyDate. Specify maxReviewsPerApp.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "KZyycLnxu3vbNPAm0" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/v0iddo~google-play-app-reviews/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-v0iddo-google-play-app-reviews", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/v0iddo~google-play-app-reviews/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-v0iddo-google-play-app-reviews", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/v0iddo~google-play-app-reviews/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-v0iddo-google-play-app-reviews", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "packages": { "title": "packages", "type": "array", "description": "Android app package IDs (com.dev.app)", "default": [], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "country": { "title": "country", "type": "string", "description": "2-letter country code for review locale", "default": "us" }, "language": { "title": "language", "type": "string", "description": "2-letter language code", "default": "en" }, "maxReviewsPerApp": { "title": "maxReviewsPerApp", "type": "integer", "description": "Cap reviews per app", "default": 100 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```