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

Scrape Google Play app details, keyword search results and similar apps in any country and language. Get title, developer, rating, rating count, installs, price, category, content rating, updated date and icon as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/workmatic/google-play-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

$2.00 / 1,000 apps

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 Scraper

Scrape **Google Play** app data in any country and language: full details for any app, keyword search results, and the similar apps Google lists next to each one. Every row gives you title, developer, category, rating, rating count, install bucket, price, content rating, ads and in-app purchase flags, last update date, description and icon as clean JSON, CSV or Excel. No login, no browser.

### What you can do

- **App details** – `apps: ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"]` accepts package names and URLs.
- **Keyword search** – `searchTerms: ["music player", "budget app"]` returns up to 100 apps per term in Google's ranking order.
- **Similar apps** – `includeSimilar: true` follows the "Similar apps" section of every scraped app, about 10 per app, until `maxApps` is reached. Ideal for mapping a whole category.
- **Any market** – `country` and `language` select the storefront and the language of titles and descriptions.

### Output fields

`appId`, `url`, `title`, `country`, `language`, `source`, `searchTerm`, `similarTo`, `developer`, `developerUrl`, `category`, `contentRating`, `rating`, `ratingCount`, `installs`, `price`, `currency`, `free`, `containsAds`, `inAppPurchases`, `updated`, `description`, `icon`, `scrapedAt`.

### Input example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": ["meditation"],
  "apps": ["com.calm.android"],
  "includeSimilar": true,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 30,
  "maxApps": 300
}
```

### Pricing

**$2 per 1,000 apps.** You pay only for app rows saved to the dataset.

### Use cases

- **Category mapping** – start from one app with `includeSimilar` and collect the whole neighbourhood.
- **Competitor tracking** – schedule a daily run and diff `rating`, `ratingCount`, `installs` and `updated`.
- **ASO** – see which apps rank for your keywords in each country.
- **Lead lists** – developers of apps in a niche, with `developerUrl`.
- **AI agents** – works over MCP; ask your agent for "the top meditation apps on Google Play in Brazil with their ratings".

### Reliability

Each page is fetched with retries, exponential backoff and a fresh proxy IP on every attempt. Rows are de-duplicated by package name and saved as they arrive, so partial runs still return data.

### Legal

Only publicly available Play Store listing data is collected. No user data is involved.

### Support

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

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search Google Play for, e.g. 'music player'. Each term returns up to 'maxResultsPerSearch' apps.

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

Play Store URLs (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music) or package names (com.spotify.music).

## `includeSimilar` (type: `boolean`):

For every app scraped, also collect the 'Similar apps' Google lists on its page (about 10 per app).

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

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

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

Two-letter language (hl) for titles and descriptions, e.g. en, de, es. Default en.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Per search term (max 100).

## `maxApps` (type: `integer`):

Hard stop for the whole run.

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

Google rate-limits busy IPs. Apify datacenter proxies (default) rotate the IP and keep long runs reliable.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "music player"
  ],
  "includeSimilar": false,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 30,
  "maxApps": 500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

One row per app with Google Play details.

## `summary` (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 = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "music player"
    ],
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en",
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

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

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

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,workmatic/google-play-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/ay7h3oUqAFUvRXK1v/builds/2av8OHaIsl1gtSufd/openapi.json