How to Scrape Google Play — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull Google Play data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the Google Play Scraper — App Data, Reviews & ASO API, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no Google Play login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

_mode
appId
title
developer
score
installs
price
url
scrapedAt
icon
ratings
free
userName
text

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/google-play-data-api
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install google-play-data-api

const scrape = require("google-play-data-api");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install google-play-data-api

from google_play_data_api import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`mode`	string	Mode
`appId`	string	App ID
`appIds`	array	App IDs (batch)
`query`	string	Search query / keyword
`devId`	string	Developer ID
`collection`	string	Top-chart collection
`category`	string	Category filter
`age`	string	Age filter (games only)
`reviewSort`	string	Review sort order
`reviewScore`	integer	Filter by star rating
`country`	string	Country
`language`	string	Language

Common use cases

Build a fresh Google Play dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed Google Play records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date Google Play data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.