# App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (2-in-1) (`wireless_tiramisu/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape app reviews and app details from Google Play and the Apple App Store in one run with one unified output. Multi-country, keyword search, date and star filters for monitoring. GDPR-friendly: reviewer names hashed by default.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/wireless_tiramisu/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Alexis Quiroga](https://apify.com/wireless_tiramisu) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, E-commerce, AI
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.15 / 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

## App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (2-in-1)

Scrape **app reviews** and **app details** from **Google Play** and the **Apple App Store** in a single run, with **one unified output format**. Paste any mix of Play Store / App Store URLs or IDs – or just search by keyword – and get clean, analysis-ready data.

### Features

- 🍏🤖 **Both stores, one schema** – the same fields for iOS and Android (`store`, `appId`, `rating`, `text`, `date`, `appVersion`, `thumbsUp`, `developerReply`…), so you can compare platforms instantly.
- 🌍 **Multi-country** – collect reviews from several storefronts (us, gb, de, es…) in one run.
- 📅 **Incremental monitoring** – `reviewsSince` stops at the last date you already have, so scheduled runs only pay for *new* reviews.
- ⭐ **Rating filter** – e.g. only 1–2★ reviews to find bugs and churn reasons.
- 🔎 **Keyword search** – find the top apps for "invoice", "meditation"… in both stores and scrape them.
- 📊 **App details** – rating, ratings count, histogram, installs (Play), version, release notes, price, developer, size, content rating, screenshots.
- 🛡️ **GDPR-friendly by default** – reviewer names replaced by a stable anonymous hash (`reviewerHash`); opt-in to include display names.
- 💬 **Developer replies** included (Google Play).

### Use cases

- **Product teams**: track feature requests and bugs after every release (`appVersion`).
- **Competitive intelligence**: compare your app vs. competitors on both platforms.
- **ASO & marketing**: mine keywords and sentiment from real user language.
- **AI / LLM pipelines**: feed reviews to sentiment, topic or summary models.
- **Customer support**: monitor negative reviews daily with a schedule + `reviewsSince`.

### Input example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ],
  "countries": ["us", "gb"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 200,
  "reviewsSince": "2026-09-01",
  "maxRating": 2
}
```

### Output examples

Review:

```json
{
  "type": "review",
  "store": "appStore",
  "appId": "324684580",
  "appTitle": "Spotify: música y pódcasts",
  "country": "es",
  "reviewId": "14621250560",
  "rating": 5,
  "title": "Facilitar",
  "text": "La app es muy buena pero tendrían que facilitar…",
  "date": "2026-10-03T03:26:53.000Z",
  "appVersion": "9.1.88",
  "thumbsUp": 0,
  "reviewerHash": "00c614367308e0af"
}
```

App details:

```json
{
  "type": "appDetails",
  "store": "googlePlay",
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "title": "Spotify: música y podcasts",
  "rating": 4.2,
  "ratingsCount": 36424653,
  "installs": "1.000.000.000+",
  "version": "VARY",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-29T…",
  "developer": "Spotify AB"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event – you only pay for what you get:

- **Review** – per review written to the dataset.
- **App details** – per app × country.

Use *Maximum cost per run* to cap spending; the actor stops gracefully when it is reached.

### Limits & notes

- Apple only exposes roughly the **500 most recent reviews per country** for each app. Add more countries to get more.
- Google Play has no practical limit; large apps may have millions of reviews – set `maxReviewsPerApp`.
- Data comes from publicly available store pages and Apple's public RSS/lookup feeds. You are responsible for using it in line with applicable laws (e.g. GDPR) and store terms.

### Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab – fixes usually ship within 48 hours.

# Actor input Schema

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

Google Play URLs or package names (com.spotify.music) and App Store URLs or numeric IDs (324684580). Mix both stores freely.

## `searchQueries` (type: `array`):

Find apps by keyword in both stores and scrape them too (e.g. 'invoice', 'budget tracker').

## `maxSearchResults` (type: `integer`):

How many top apps to take from each store per keyword.

## `searchStores` (type: `array`):

Which stores are searched for 'Search keywords'.

## `stores` (type: `array`):

Ignore apps from stores you don't select.

## `dataTypes` (type: `array`):

App details = one result per app and country. Reviews = one result per review.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter store country codes (us, gb, es, de…). Reviews are collected per country storefront — add several countries to get more App Store reviews.

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

Two-letter language code for Google Play texts and App Store metadata.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

App Store exposes up to ~500 most recent reviews per country; Google Play has no practical limit.

## `reviewsSort` (type: `string`):

Order in which reviews are collected.

## `reviewsSince` (type: `string`):

Optional. Stops when older reviews are reached (with 'Newest'). Perfect for daily/weekly monitoring — you only pay for new reviews.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

E.g. set max=2 to collect only negative reviews.

## `maxRating` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound of the star rating filter.

## `includeReviewerNames` (type: `boolean`):

Off by default (GDPR-friendly): reviewers are identified only by a stable anonymous hash. Turn on only if you have a lawful basis to process names.

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

Optional. Usually not needed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ],
  "searchQueries": [],
  "maxSearchResults": 5,
  "searchStores": [
    "googlePlay",
    "appStore"
  ],
  "stores": [
    "googlePlay",
    "appStore"
  ],
  "dataTypes": [
    "details",
    "reviews"
  ],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "reviewsSort": "newest",
  "minRating": 1,
  "maxRating": 5,
  "includeReviewerNames": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

All dataset items (reviews and app details); opens the Reviews view by default.

## `appDetails` (type: `string`):

All dataset items; opens the App details view by default.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

JSON with counts of reviews and app details pushed and any failed apps.

# 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": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("wireless_tiramisu/app-store-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": [
        "com.spotify.music",
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("wireless_tiramisu/app-store-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": [
    "com.spotify.music",
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/spotify-music-and-podcasts/id324684580"
  ]
}' |
apify call wireless_tiramisu/app-store-google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,wireless_tiramisu/app-store-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/YBnhhATNPWeI8IWlh/builds/IYkFPd7GGrXLmEjJG/openapi.json