Google Play reviews API and export

Use the google-play-reviews-scraper robot on Apify: give it app names, package IDs or Play Store URLs, choose countries and a language, and it returns reviews as JSON that you can download as CSV or Excel. You can filter by star rating and date and get the developer reply. It costs $0.0004 per review.

google-play-reviews-scraper on Apify →

What you get per review

Rating, text, author, date, thumbs-up count, app version, and the developer's reply with its date when there is one, plus the app name, rating and country. Reviews are collected per country and language, so you can compare how an app is received in different markets.

Input options

apps (names, package IDs such as com.example.app, or store URLs), countries, language, sort (newest, relevant or rating), maxReviews, minRating and maxRating to isolate for example only 1 and 2 star reviews, and since to stop at a date. With newest-first sorting the scan ends as soon as older reviews appear.

Example call

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/extas_corp~google-play-reviews-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"apps":["com.spotify.music"],"countries":["us","gb"],"language":"en","sort":"newest","maxReviews":100,"maxRating":2}'

Turning reviews into decisions

Export to CSV, tidy it with the remove duplicate lines tool if you merge several exports, then look at the most frequent complaints in 1-star reviews after each release. A spike of negative reviews on a new app version is an early bug signal; developer replies show how fast a competitor answers.

Data and terms

The robot reads publicly visible reviews, without logging in and without proxies. Use the data in line with Google Play's terms and privacy law; reviewer names are personal data under GDPR, so aggregate or anonymise when you publish an analysis.

Pricing

$0.0004 per review ($0.40 per 1,000). A companion robot, appstore-reviews-scraper, does the same for the Apple App Store at $0.0002 per review. The free converters on this site run in your browser; the Apify robots are for automation and volume. You pay only per result, with no monthly fee for the robot itself.

One review as returned

{
  "type": "review",
  "appId": "com.example.app",
  "appName": "Example",
  "appRating": 4.3,
  "country": "us",
  "language": "en",
  "rating": 2,
  "text": "Crashes since the last update when I open the camera.",
  "version": "5.12.0",
  "date": "2026-10-28T09:14:00Z",
  "thumbsUp": 14,
  "developerReply": "Thanks, a fix is coming in 5.12.1.",
  "developerReplyDate": "2026-10-29T08:02:00Z"
}

Each item also carries the author name, the developer name, the install range and the app URL. Errors (an app that cannot be found, a country where it is not available) come back as items with "type": "error" and are not charged.

Worked example: did the last release hurt ratings?

Run the robot on your app with sort newest and since set to two weeks before the release.
In a spreadsheet, group reviews by version and compute the average rating and the share of 1 and 2 star reviews for each version.
If the new version is clearly worse, read its low-star reviews and tag the topics (crash, login, battery, price). The top two tags are usually your bug list.
Repeat the run on one or two competitors to see whether a drop is yours alone or the whole category.

With 2,000 reviews the run costs about $0.80.

FAQ

Do I need a Google account or API key?

No. You only need an Apify account and API token.

Can I get reviews in another language?

Yes, set the language and country for the store locale you want.

How many reviews can I export?

Set maxReviews as high as you need; cost scales linearly at $0.0004 per review.

Is there an Apple equivalent?

Yes, appstore-reviews-scraper on Apify covers the Apple App Store.

Last updated: November 2026. Facts about third-party tools come from their public repositories and documentation. Check licenses before commercial use.

2026-11-12