# App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper (`x402opklaar/app-store-reviews-scraper`) Actor

App ids or URLs in, user reviews out — from both the Apple App Store (public RSS) and Google Play. Rating, title, text, author, version and date per review. Store auto-detected. Charged per review returned.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/x402opklaar/app-store-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Opklaar](https://apify.com/x402opklaar) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 review returneds

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".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Store & Google Play Reviews Scraper

App identifiers in, user reviews out — from **both** the Apple App Store and Google Play, with the store auto-detected per app. Apple reviews come from Apple's **public RSS feed** (reliable, no key); Google Play reviews via the maintained `google-play-scraper`.

- **Both stores, one actor** — mix Apple ids and Play packages in a single run
- **Flexible input** — Apple numeric id (`324684580`) or `apps.apple.com` URL; Play package (`com.spotify.music`) or `play.google.com` URL; prefix `apple:`/`play:` to force
- **Full review fields** — rating, title, text, author, app version, date, review id
- **Sort** — most recent or most helpful
- **Localized** — `country` (and `language` for Play)
- **Honest pricing** — one charge per review returned; apps with no reviews (bad id, empty feed) are reported and **never charged**

### Input

```json
{
    "apps": ["324684580", "com.spotify.music"],
    "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
    "sortBy": "mostrecent",
    "country": "us",
    "language": "en"
}
```

### Output (one dataset item per review)

```json
{
    "store": "apple",
    "app_id": "324684580",
    "country": "us",
    "rating": 5,
    "title": "Great App",
    "text": "Love the new update…",
    "author": "jesmeddd",
    "version": "9.1.72",
    "updated": "2026-08-15T12:00:00-07:00",
    "review_id": "1234567890"
}
```

Google Play rows add `thumbs_up`.

### Pricing

One event: `review` — charged per review returned. An app id that can't be parsed, or returns no reviews, is reported with an `error` and **not charged**.

### Typical uses

- **Product & UX research** — mine what users praise and complain about
- **Release monitoring** — track sentiment and bugs by app `version`
- **Competitor analysis** — pull reviews across rival apps in one run
- **LLM pipelines** — summarize themes, classify sentiment, extract feature requests

### Works with AI agents

Exposed via Apify's MCP server — an agent can call *"get the 100 most recent reviews for this app and summarize the top complaints"* in one step.

### FAQ

**Apple vs Google Play coverage?** Apple uses the official public reviews RSS (up to ~500 recent reviews per app). Google Play uses the community `google-play-scraper` and can return more.

**Which country/language?** Reviews are store-localized — set `country` (both stores) and `language` (Google Play).

**Bulk?** Pass many apps; each review is one dataset row and one charge, failures never charged.

# Actor input Schema

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

App identifiers: Apple numeric id (e.g. 324684580) or apps.apple.com URL; Google Play package (e.g. com.spotify.music) or play.google.com URL. Prefix with apple: or play: to force a store.

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

Apple exposes up to ~500 via RSS; Google Play can return more.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Review ordering.

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

Two-letter store country (e.g. us, gb, de).

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

Two-letter language for Google Play reviews.

## `store` (type: `string`):

Override auto-detection for all apps.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "apps": [
    "324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sortBy": "mostrecent",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "store": ""
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "apps": [
        "324684580",
        "com.spotify.music"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("x402opklaar/app-store-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": [
        "324684580",
        "com.spotify.music",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("x402opklaar/app-store-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": [
    "324684580",
    "com.spotify.music"
  ]
}' |
apify call x402opklaar/app-store-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,x402opklaar/app-store-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/gnFFTxP3yhn5f6Aza/builds/meymLrVsdMQv6wC7q/openapi.json