# Google Playstore Review Scraper (`x.com/google-playstore-review-scraper`) Actor

Extracts Google Play store app reviews with ratings, reviewer details, text, dates, helpful votes, app versions, filters, and pagination.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/x.com/google-playstore-review-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Girma Wakeyo](https://apify.com/x.com) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Other
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 28 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

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.

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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 Playstore Review Scraper

Fast, no-browser Google Play Store review extractor. Scrapes reviews directly from Google Play's internal API — no browser overhead, no Selenium, no Playwright.

### Features

- ⚡ **Blazing fast** — HTTP-based extraction, no browser needed
- 📄 **Pagination** — scrape from any start page, control pages and reviews per page
- 🔢 **Sorting** — most relevant, newest, or by rating
- ⭐ **Rating filters** — filter by individual rating or multiple ratings
- 🔍 **Keyword search** — only keep reviews containing specific keywords
- 🌍 **Language & country** — filter by review language and Google Play country
- 📅 **Date range** — filter by end date or recent N days
- 📱 **App version** — filter by specific app versions
- 🆔 **Duplicate removal** — auto-deduplicates by review ID
- 🔄 **Auto-retry** — retries on network failures with exponential backoff
- 💰 **Free-user quota** — built-in limits for non-paying Apify users (5 runs / 500 reviews)

### Input

#### Required

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `appIdOrUrl` | string | App package name (e.g. `com.supercell.brawlstars`) or full Google Play URL |

#### Optional

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `deviceType` | enum | `mobile` | `mobile`, `tablet`, or `chromebook` |
| `sortBy` | enum | `mostRelevant` | `mostRelevant`, `newest`, or `rating` |
| `rating` | int | — | Fetch reviews with a specific rating (1–5) |
| `startPage` | int | `1` | Page to start scraping from |
| `pagesToScrape` | int | `5` | Max pages (`-1` for all available) |
| `reviewsPerPage` | int | `100` | Reviews per request (10–200) |
| `maxReviews` | int | `10000` | Max reviews to save (`-1` for unlimited) |
| `ratingFilter` | array | `[1,2,3,4,5]` | Only keep reviews with these ratings |
| `language` | array | — | Language code filter e.g. `["en", "fr"]` |
| `keywords` | array | — | Only keep reviews containing these keywords |
| `endDate` | string | — | Only reviews up to this date (`YYYY-MM-DD`) |
| `recentDays` | int | `0` | Only reviews from last N days (0 = no limit) |
| `uniqueOnly` | bool | `true` | Remove duplicate reviews by ID |
| `appVersion` | array | — | Only reviews from these app versions |
| `country` | string | `us` | Two-letter Google Play country code |

#### Example Inputs

**Basic — scrape 10 newest reviews:**

```json
{
  "appIdOrUrl": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically.go",
  "maxReviews": 10,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}
```

**Targeted — 4-5 star reviews with keywords, last 30 days:**

```json
{
  "appIdOrUrl": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
  "ratingFilter": [4, 5],
  "keywords": ["great", "amazing", "fun"],
  "recentDays": 30,
  "maxReviews": 100,
  "sortBy": "newest"
}
```

### Output

Each dataset item contains the following fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `reviewId` | string | Unique review identifier |
| `rating` | int | Star rating (1–5) |
| `reviewer` | string | Reviewer's display name |
| `date` | string | Review date in `YYYY-MM-DD` format |
| `reviewedIn` | string | Language context of the review |
| `body` | string | Full review text |
| `userImage` | string | Reviewer's profile image URL |
| `position` | int | Order in the scraped result stream |
| `helpfulCounts` | int | Number of helpful votes |
| `appId` | string | Google Play package name |
| `appVersion` | string | App version at time of review |
| `timestamp` | int | Unix timestamp of the review |
| `language` | string | Language code |

#### Sample Output

```json
{
  "reviewId": "c7d3429c-e617-40a7-8ca6-77ce3b1b3c8b",
  "rating": 5,
  "reviewer": "MarQOSH Hadeboh",
  "date": "2026-06-23",
  "reviewedIn": "en",
  "body": "Markos Hadeboh",
  "userImage": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKZTR6dtvDXiNUjvhou3xLYabf7R_WRzYcKZInlur1PSLIL=mo",
  "position": 1,
  "helpfulCounts": 0,
  "appId": "com.zhiliaoapp.musically.go",
  "appVersion": "44.3.2",
  "timestamp": 1782240282,
  "language": "en"
}
```

### Local Development

```bash
## Create and activate virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

## Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

## Run the Actor locally
apify run
```

#### Syntax check

```bash
python -m compileall -q my_actor/
```

#### Deploy to Apify

```bash
apify login
apify push
```

### Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

- **Actor start:** $0.00005 per run
- **Result:** $0.01 per 1,000 reviews scraped

Platform usage (compute, memory) is free.

# Actor input Schema

## `appIdOrUrl` (type: `string`):

App package name (for example, com.supercell.brawlstars) or a full Google Play Store app URL.

## `deviceType` (type: `string`):

Device type to scrape reviews from.

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

How to sort the reviews.

## `rating` (type: `integer`):

Get reviews only with a specific rating from 1 to 5.

## `startPage` (type: `integer`):

Page number to start scraping from.

## `pagesToScrape` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages to scrape. Use -1 for all available pages.

## `reviewsPerPage` (type: `integer`):

Number of reviews requested per page.

## `maxReviews` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of reviews to save. Use -1 for no limit. Non-paying Apify users are limited to 5 total runs and 500 total reviews across all runs.

## `ratingFilter` (type: `array`):

Filter saved reviews by rating values.

## `language` (type: `array`):

Filter reviews by language code, such as en, fr, or de. Google Play may not expose language metadata for every review.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only save reviews containing at least one of these keywords.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Only include reviews up to this date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

## `recentDays` (type: `integer`):

Only include reviews from the last N days. Use 0 for no limit.

## `uniqueOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only save unique reviews by reviewId.

## `appVersion` (type: `array`):

Only save reviews from these app versions.

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

Two-letter Google Play country code used for review localization.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appIdOrUrl": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
  "deviceType": "mobile",
  "sortBy": "mostRelevant",
  "startPage": 1,
  "pagesToScrape": 5,
  "reviewsPerPage": 100,
  "maxReviews": 10000,
  "ratingFilter": [
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4,
    5
  ],
  "language": [
    "en"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "great",
    "bad",
    "fun"
  ],
  "recentDays": 0,
  "uniqueOnly": true,
  "appVersion": [
    "65.165",
    "64.226"
  ],
  "country": "us"
}
```

# 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 = {
    "appIdOrUrl": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
    "ratingFilter": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        4,
        5
    ],
    "language": [
        "en"
    ],
    "keywords": [
        "great",
        "bad",
        "fun"
    ],
    "appVersion": [
        "65.165",
        "64.226"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("x.com/google-playstore-review-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 = {
    "appIdOrUrl": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
    "ratingFilter": [
        1,
        2,
        3,
        4,
        5,
    ],
    "language": ["en"],
    "keywords": [
        "great",
        "bad",
        "fun",
    ],
    "appVersion": [
        "65.165",
        "64.226",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("x.com/google-playstore-review-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 '{
  "appIdOrUrl": "com.supercell.brawlstars",
  "ratingFilter": [
    1,
    2,
    3,
    4,
    5
  ],
  "language": [
    "en"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "great",
    "bad",
    "fun"
  ],
  "appVersion": [
    "65.165",
    "64.226"
  ]
}' |
apify call x.com/google-playstore-review-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,x.com/google-playstore-review-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/OvhPF5d7kcqj2rvs3/builds/v6oUqMHtvEcdnlU4y/openapi.json