Google Play Scraper: app details, ratings and installs

Scrape Google Play app pages in any country and language for $0.70 per 1,000 apps. Every app comes with Google Play's exact install count (not just the "10M+" band), the Data safety declaration (what the app shares and collects, encryption, deletion requests) and the full permissions list, plus the title, developer, category, star rating with the 1–5 star breakdown, number of ratings and reviews, price, ads, in-app purchases, release and last-update dates, version, minimum Android version, icon, screenshots and promo video.

Every app row also carries a free review snapshot: the reviews Google Play shows on the app page (up to about 20) with their rating, date, text, helpful count, app version and the developer's reply. No reviewer names or avatars.

Find apps by package name, by developer, by category (every list on Google Play's category page, plus each list's "see more" page), or by following each app's Similar apps and More by this developer lists. No login, no cookies, no Google account.

What you get

App	Title, package name, Google Play URL, short and full description (plain text and HTML), "What's new" notes
Developer	Developer name, developer ID, developer page on Google Play, website, privacy policy URL
Category	Main category and its ID (e.g. GAME_PUZZLE), extra game tags ("Match 3", "Multiplayer"…), content rating and descriptors
Ratings	Average rating, number of ratings, number of written reviews, count of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5-star ratings
Review snapshot (free)	Up to ~20 reviews from the app page: stars, date, text, helpful count, app version, developer reply and its date. No reviewer names, avatars or ids
Installs	Install band ("10,000,000+"), its lower bound as a number, and Google Play's unrounded install count
Price	Free or paid, price, sale price, currency, "Contains ads", in-app purchases and their price range
Versions	First release date, last update date, current version, minimum Android version and API level
Charts	Top chart rank when the app has one, e.g. #1 top free music & audio
Data safety	Whether the app shares or collects data, which data types, encryption in transit, deletion requests
Permissions	Every permission Google Play lists, with its group
Media	Icon, feature graphic, screenshots, promo video and its thumbnail
Related apps	Package names in the app's "Similar apps" and "More by …" lists

How to use it

1. Put package names (like com.spotify.music, the id= part of a Google Play link) or Google Play app links into App IDs or URLs.
2. Or add Developers (name as Google Play shows it, e.g. Spotify AB, or a developer ID) and/or Categories.
3. Pick the Country and Language of the store. They set the currency, price, ratings and the language of the text.
4. Set Max apps and run.

Input examples

Two apps, US store:

{
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "com.duolingo"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en"
}

Puzzle games in the UK store, 200 apps:

{
  "categories": ["GAME_PUZZLE"],
  "country": "GB",
  "maxItems": 200
}

Competitor research: your app, its 20 closest competitors and the developer's other apps, German store:

{
  "appIds": ["com.duolingo"],
  "similarApps": 20,
  "includeMoreByDeveloper": true,
  "country": "DE",
  "language": "de"
}

Every app by a developer:

{
  "developers": ["Spotify AB", "4772240228547998649"]
}

You can also paste any Google Play page with apps into Other Google Play URLs: developer pages, category pages, "see more" lists (/store/apps/collection/cluster?…), or the apps and games home pages.

Output example

{
  "appId": "com.mojang.minecraftpe",
  "title": "Minecraft: Dream it, Build it!",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mojang.minecraftpe&hl=en&gl=US",
  "developer": "Mojang",
  "developerId": "4772240228547998649",
  "developerUrl": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=4772240228547998649",
  "developerWebsite": "http://help.mojang.com",
  "summary": "Millions of crafters have smashed billions of blocks! Now you can join the fun!",
  "category": "Arcade",
  "categoryId": "GAME_ARCADE",
  "isGame": true,
  "tags": ["Simulation", "Sandbox", "Casual", "Multiplayer", "Single player"],
  "contentRating": "Everyone 10+",
  "contentRatingDescription": "Fantasy Violence",
  "interactiveElements": "Users Interact, In-Game Purchases",
  "rating": 4.3070726,
  "ratingCount": 5848849,
  "reviewCount": 635027,
  "ratingHistogram": { "1": 620571, "2": 178603, "3": 269102, "4": 496505, "5": 4284056 },
  "reviewSnapshot": [
    {
      "rating": 4,
      "date": "2024-12-30T22:46:38.000Z",
      "text": "Great game, but the world keeps running when the app is closed…",
      "helpfulCount": 312,
      "appVersion": "1.21.51.02",
      "developerReply": null
    }
  ],
  "installs": "50,000,000+",
  "minInstalls": 50000000,
  "realInstalls": 98010064,
  "free": false,
  "price": 6.99,
  "currency": "USD",
  "priceText": "$6.99",
  "containsAds": false,
  "inAppPurchases": true,
  "inAppPriceRange": "$0.99 - $49.99 per item",
  "releasedDate": "2011-08-16T06:17:21.000Z",
  "updatedDate": "2026-09-25T17:26:28.000Z",
  "version": "1.26.52.3",
  "minAndroidVersion": "8.0",
  "minAndroidSdk": 26,
  "topChart": "top paid arcade",
  "topChartRank": 1,
  "dataShared": true,
  "dataSharedTypes": "Location, Personal info, and App activity",
  "dataCollected": true,
  "dataCollectedTypes": "Location, Personal info and 5 others",
  "dataEncryptedInTransit": true,
  "dataDeletionRequest": true,
  "permissions": [{ "group": "Photos/Media/Files", "permission": "read the contents of your USB storage" }],
  "videoUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLtLrFNRE-E",
  "similarApps": ["com.roblox.client", "com.sandboxol.blockymods"],
  "moreByDeveloper": ["com.mojang.minecraftedu", "com.mojang.minecraftedu_preview"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "source": "app id",
  "position": 1,
  "parseMode": "full",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-01T23:58:10.000Z"
}

Shortened here: every row also has description, descriptionHtml, whatsNew, iconUrl, headerImageUrl, screenshots, privacyPolicyUrl, dataSafety and the other columns, and reviewSnapshot usually holds about 20 reviews. Every row has the same columns; a value Google Play doesn't show is null.

Exporting to CSV or Excel? reviewSnapshot is a list, so a spreadsheet export spreads it over many columns. Download JSON, or leave it out of a spreadsheet with Omit fields: reviewSnapshot in the export dialog (&omit=reviewSnapshot in the API).

Use cases

• App store optimization (ASO): track titles, short descriptions, ratings, installs and update dates of your app and its competitors.
• Competitor research: start from your app and pull its "Similar apps" with full details, and read what their users complain about in each review snapshot.
• Market research: scan a category in several countries and compare prices, ads, in-app purchases and ratings.
• Privacy audits: compare Data safety declarations and permissions across many apps.
• Lead lists for app businesses: developers of games or apps in a niche, with their websites.
• Monitoring: schedule a daily run to catch new versions, rating changes or price drops.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account, cookies or a login? No. The scraper reads the same public Google Play pages any visitor sees. It never logs in.

Can it search Google Play by keyword? No. Google Play's robots.txt does not allow crawlers on its search pages, and this Actor only reads pages that robots.txt allows. Use package names, developers, categories or Similar apps per app instead. Search links you paste are skipped, and the run's status message says so.

Does it scrape reviews? Each app row includes a free snapshot of the reviews Google Play shows on the app page: up to about 20, in Google Play's order, each with its stars, date, text, helpful count, app version and the developer's reply. They come in the store language you pick. Reviewer names, avatars and ids are never collected, and a reviewer's name is blanked out of the review and reply text (Hi [name removed]). It does not page through all of an app's reviews: that needs Google Play's internal review API, which its robots.txt does not allow crawlers to use.

Which countries and languages work? Any Google Play store. Set Country (e.g. US, GB, DE, IN, BR) and Language (e.g. en, de, pt_BR). The country sets the currency, price, ratings and availability. The language sets the text when the developer provides a translation.

How many apps does a developer or category give? Google Play's developer pages show roughly the first 10–20 apps of a developer. Category pages show several lists of 5–20 apps each, and the scraper opens each list's "see more" page (up to about 50 apps) while you still need apps.

What does "parseMode: basic" mean? If Google Play changes its page layout, the scraper still saves the title, developer, rating, price, category and icon from the page's summary block, marks those rows basic, and warns in the run's status message.

How fast is it? At the default 256 MB of memory, about one app every two seconds: 100 apps take around 3 minutes. Each Google Play app page is over 1 MB of HTML, so reading it takes processor time. Set the run's memory to 1 GB (Run options) to go about twice as fast; the price per app is the same.

Which proxy should I use? Keep the default (Apify Proxy, datacenter). It comes with every Apify plan, including the free one. If Google Play keeps refusing datacenter IPs, the run switches to residential proxies when your account has them. Each app read through residential proxies costs an extra fee (see below). To never pay it, turn off Fall back to residential proxies: the run then stays on datacenter and stops with what it has if Google Play keeps refusing.

What does a run cost? $0.70 per 1,000 apps ($0.0007 per app saved) plus $0.002 per run. The review snapshot is included. Apps that aren't found, fail or are over your Max apps limit are never charged. Residential proxies cost us much more than datacenter ones, so an app whose page had to come through residential proxies costs $0.0035 more. That happens only when Google Play keeps refusing datacenter IPs and the fallback is on, or when you pick RESIDENTIAL in the Proxy input yourself. Apps read on datacenter or on your own proxies never cost extra. The run's status message tells you how many apps went through residential proxies. The run stops at your spending limit, and apps the limit doesn't cover are never saved.

Is it legal to scrape Google Play? This Actor only collects publicly available data: app listings that anyone can see on Google Play without an account, such as the app's name, developer, category, price, ratings and description. Collecting publicly available data is generally legal, but you're responsible for how you use it. Many Google Play developers are individual people, so the scraper never collects developer e-mail addresses, postal addresses or phone numbers, and it removes personal e-mail addresses and phone numbers from descriptions. Reviews come without the reviewer's name, avatar or id, and with names, personal e-mail addresses and phone numbers removed from their text. You must follow privacy laws such as GDPR, PIPEDA and CCPA, as well as Google Play's terms. If you're unsure, check with a lawyer. More on this: Is web scraping legal?

Does it access any private data? No. Everything comes from pages Google Play shows to any visitor without logging in. It never uses a login, never opens user profiles, never collects reviewer names or avatars, and follows Google Play's robots.txt.

This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC, used here only to describe the data the Actor works with.