# Google Play Reviews Scraper (`workmatic/google-play-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Google Play reviews for any Android app by package name or Play Store URL, in any country and language. Get rating, text, date, thumbs up, app version and developer reply as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. Thousands of reviews per app, no login, no personal data.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/workmatic/google-play-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Workmatic](https://apify.com/workmatic) (community)
- **Categories:** E-commerce, Automation, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 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?

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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.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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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 Scraper

Scrape **Google Play reviews** for any Android app. Paste a Play Store URL or package name and get every review as clean JSON, CSV or Excel: star rating, text, date, thumbs up, app version and the developer's reply. Choose country and language, filter by star rating, and pull thousands of reviews per app. No login, no browser, no personal data.

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `rating` | `1` |
| `text` | `Worst update, so many ads now` |
| `date` | `2026-09-13T21:37:10.000Z` |
| `thumbsUp` | `48` |
| `appVersion` | `9.1.78.2218` |
| `replyText`, `replyDate` | developer response, when present |
| `appId`, `country`, `language`, `sort`, `reviewId`, `reviewUrl`, `scrapedAt` | for filtering, deduplication and audit |

Reviewer names and avatars are deliberately **not** collected, so the output contains no personal data and can be stored and shared freely.

### Input

```json
{
  "apps": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "sort": "newest",
  "scoreFilter": 0,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 2000
}
```

- **apps** – Play Store URLs or package names, mixed is fine.
- **country** / **language** – the storefront (`gl`) and UI language (`hl`). Run several countries as separate runs or tasks.
- **sort** – `newest`, `mostRelevant` or `rating`.
- **scoreFilter** – `0` for all, or `1` to `5` to fetch only reviews with that star rating (great for "show me every 1-star review").
- **maxReviewsPerApp** – hard stop per app. Google paginates without a fixed cap.

### Pricing

Pay per review: **$3 per 1,000 reviews**. You pay only for reviews saved to the dataset. Platform usage is tiny because the actor uses plain HTTP requests and about 256 MB of memory.

### Use cases

- **Competitor research** – what users love and hate before you build.
- **Release monitoring** – schedule a daily `newest` run and alert on new 1-star reviews mentioning a crash.
- **Sentiment and topic analysis** – feed `text` to an LLM or classifier; `appVersion` lets you compare releases.
- **Reply audit** – find unanswered negative reviews via `replyText`.
- **AI agents** – works over MCP; ask your agent for "the last 500 one-star Google Play reviews of app X in Germany".

### Reliability

The actor calls the same JSON endpoint the Play Store website uses. Each request is retried with exponential backoff and a fresh proxy IP, pages are de-duplicated by review ID, and results are saved page by page so partial runs still return data.

### Integrations

Export to JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, push to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make or a webhook from the **Integrations** tab, or call the actor from the Apify API and SDKs (Node.js, Python).

### Legal

Only publicly visible review content is collected and no reviewer identities are stored. You are responsible for how you use the data.

### Support

Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab. Bugs are usually fixed within a day.

# Actor input Schema

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

One or more Android apps. Paste Play Store URLs (e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music) or package names (e.g. com.spotify.music).

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

Two-letter Play Store country code (gl), e.g. us, gb, de, in, br. Default us.

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

Two-letter UI language (hl) that decides which language's reviews Google returns first, e.g. en, de, es, pt. Default en.

## `sort` (type: `string`):

newest (chronological), mostRelevant (Google's default ranking) or rating (grouped by stars).

## `scoreFilter` (type: `integer`):

0 = all ratings; 1 to 5 = only reviews with that exact star rating.

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

Stop after this many reviews per app. Google paginates without a hard cap, so thousands are possible. Default 500.

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

Google rate-limits busy IPs. Apify datacenter proxies (default) rotate the IP and keep long runs reliable. Traffic is about 30 KB per 40 reviews.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "sort": "newest",
  "scoreFilter": 0,
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All scraped reviews as JSON, CSV or Excel. One row per review: appId, country, rating, text, date, thumbsUp, appVersion, replyText, reviewUrl.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Apps, country, language, sort order and total number of reviews saved.

# 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.spotify.music"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("workmatic/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.spotify.music"],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("workmatic/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.spotify.music"
  ],
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call workmatic/google-play-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,workmatic/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/orx0Iese1TTv47W0R/builds/dbK7kplL4WsTKngKX/openapi.json