Google Play Reviews Scraper

hipersoft/google-play-reviews-scraper

Scrape user reviews for any Google Play app: author, star rating, review text, date, thumbs-up count, app version and developer replies. Sort by newest, rating or helpfulness. Clean, no setup.

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Total users

Monthly users

Total runs

113

Per review scraped

$0.0005

Last rebuilt

Oct 28, 2026

Overview

Scrape user reviews for any Google Play app and get back clean, structured JSON — author, star rating, review text, date, thumbs-up count, app version and the developer's reply. Sort by newest, highest rating or most helpful, and collect up to tens of thousands of reviews per app with automatic pagination. It collects only publicly available Google Play review data. No account, no API key. Ideal for product teams, app market researchers and anyone doing sentiment or feedback analysis.

Google Play Reviews Scraper input — app IDs, sort order, country and language in the Apify Console

Features

📱 Any app, by ID or URL — pass appIds as package names like com.spotify.music or full Play Store URLs.
🔢 Deep pagination — collect up to maxReviewsPerApp (up to 20,000) per app, fetched page by page automatically.
🔀 Flexible sorting — sort by newest, rating (highest) or helpfulness (most helpful).
⭐ Star rating + text — every record has the numeric rating and full review text.
💬 Developer replies — captures replyText and replyDate when the developer responded.
🌍 Localized — set country and language to target reviews from a specific store locale.
👍 Engagement signals — thumbsUp count and appVersion for filtering and trend analysis.

What you get

Google Play Reviews Scraper output example — one review per row with author, rating, text and developer reply as structured JSON

Every review becomes one clean JSON record:

{
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "reviewId": "gp:AOqpTO...xyz",
  "author": "Jamie R.",
  "avatar": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/a/avatar.png",
  "rating": 5,
  "text": "Love the new UI, playlists sync instantly across devices.",
  "date": "2026-07-20T14:32:00.000Z",
  "thumbsUp": 42,
  "appVersion": "8.9.12.590",
  "replyText": "Thanks for the kind words! Glad you're enjoying it.",
  "replyDate": "2026-07-21T09:10:00.000Z"
}

Output schema

Field	Type	Description
`appId`	string	Package name of the app the review belongs to.
`reviewId`	string	Unique identifier of the review.
`author`	string	Reviewer's display name.
`avatar`	string (URL)	Link to the reviewer's avatar image.
`rating`	integer	Star rating from 1 to 5.
`text`	string	Full review body text.
`date`	string (ISO date)	Date and time the review was posted.
`thumbsUp`	integer	Number of users who marked the review helpful.
`appVersion`	string	App version the review was left on.
`replyText`	string	Developer's reply text, if any.
`replyDate`	string	Date and time of the developer's reply, if any.

Input

{
  "appIds": ["com.spotify.music", "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android"],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "sort": "newest",
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en"
}

Field	Description
`appIds`	App package names (e.g. `com.spotify.music`) or full Play Store URLs. Each app's reviews are scraped.
`maxReviewsPerApp`	Maximum reviews to collect per app (1–20,000).
`sort`	Review ordering: `newest`, `rating` (highest) or `helpfulness` (most helpful).
`country`	Two-letter country code (Google Play `gl` parameter).
`language`	Two-letter language code (Google Play `hl` parameter).

Use cases

Run sentiment analysis on thousands of reviews for your app or a competitor's.
Track how ratings and complaints shift after a new app version ships.
Mine feature requests and bug reports from the newest reviews.
Measure developer responsiveness by pairing reviews with reply data.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: you're billed a small amount per run and per item scraped — you only pay for what you get. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key? No. The Actor collects only publicly available Google Play review data, so there's no account and no API key to set up.

How many reviews can I get per app? Set maxReviewsPerApp up to 20,000 per app, collected page by page with automatic pagination.

Can I download the app or its media? No. This Actor collects review data only — author, star rating, review text, date, thumbs-up count, app version and developer replies. It does not download apps or media.

What's the output format? Every review becomes one clean JSON record. Export the dataset as JSON, CSV or Excel.

Can I search or target reviews by app, sort order or locale? Yes. Pass package names like com.spotify.music or full Play Store URLs in appIds, choose sort (newest, rating or helpfulness), and set country and language for a specific store locale.

Can I connect this to other apps and services? The Google Play Reviews Scraper can be connected with almost any cloud service or web app thanks to integrations on the Apify platform. It works with Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub, Google Drive and many more, plus the Apify API, JavaScript/Python clients and MCP. Or use webhooks to trigger an action whenever a run finishes.

Working with app store data? Pair this with our other reviews and entertainment scrapers:

App Store Reviews Scraper — user reviews and star ratings from the Apple App Store.
Steam Games Scraper — game prices, genres, platforms and Metacritic scores.
YouTube Scraper — video metadata, transcripts, comments and channel profiles.
Spotify Scraper — tracks, artists, albums and playlists with no login or API key.

Notes

This Actor reads Google Play's public review data endpoint. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google; "Google Play" is a trademark of Google LLC.

Input

Field	Type	Description
`appIds` required App IDs or URLs	array	Google Play app package names (e.g. com.spotify.music) or full Play Store URLs. Each app's reviews are scraped.
`maxReviewsPerApp` Max reviews per app	integer	Maximum reviews to collect per app. Default: `100`
`sort` Sort by	string · newest, rating, helpfulness	Review ordering. Default: `"newest"`
`country` Country	string	Two-letter country code (Google Play gl parameter). Default: `"us"`
`language` Language	string	Two-letter language code (Google Play hl parameter). Default: `"en"`

API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/hipersoft~google-play-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "appIds": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ]
}'

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("hipersoft/google-play-reviews-scraper").call(run_input={
    "appIds": [
        "com.spotify.music"
    ]
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('hipersoft/google-play-reviews-scraper').call({
  "appIds": [
    "com.spotify.music"
  ]
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing

Event	Price	Paid plans from
Review scraped One Google Play review with author, star rating, text, date, thumbs-up count, app version and developer reply	$0.0005	$0.0003

You pay only for what the run returns. Set a maximum cost per run and it stops cleanly at that limit.

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