If you're doing app market research — tracking competitors, mining reviews for feature requests, or watching ratings over time — you need structured Google Play data: app details, install counts, ratings, and user reviews. Here's how to get it without the Play Console or any API key.
What's useful to pull
- Search apps by keyword or category
- App details: installs, rating, price, developer, version, last update, screenshots
- Reviews: text, star rating, date, thumbs-up count — the goldmine for product insight
- Any country store and language
The easy way
The Google Play Scraper does search + details + reviews across any country store. No API key.
{ "mode": "reviews", "appId": "com.whatsapp", "country": "ae", "maxReviews": 500 }
One clean row per app or review — export to JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull via the API.
What to do with it
- Competitor tracking — monitor a rival app's rating and review volume over time
- Review mining — run reviews through an LLM to cluster complaints and feature requests
- ASO research — see which apps rank for a keyword and how they're positioned
- Due diligence — installs, ratings and update cadence at a glance
Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT
Every Apify actor is callable over MCP. Point Claude Desktop at https://mcp.apify.com and ask it to "pull the latest reviews for this app and summarize the top complaints." Guide: Connect Apify actors to Claude & ChatGPT.
Try it: Google Play Scraper. Public store data only.
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