Pain Miner

Turn Chrome Web Store reviews into product intelligence. Pain Miner reads any extension's Chrome Web Store reviews and extracts the recurring complaints and unmet needs users mention — so you know exactly what to build next.

Who is this for?

• Chrome extension founders who want to find gaps in competing products.
• Product managers building competitive intelligence on browser tools.
• Indie hackers validating new extension ideas against real user frustration.

Input

Paste the full Chrome Web Store detail URL of the extension. Only chromewebstore.google.com (and legacy chrome.google.com) URLs are accepted.

Field	Type	Description
url	string · required	Chrome Web Store extension detail URL, e.g. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/<slug>/<id>
maxReviews	integer	How many recent reviews to analyze (UI default 15, range 1–200)
aiProvider	enum	AI provider used for pain-point analysis (default openai)
aiModel	string	AI model used for the analysis

Example input:

{
  "url": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dark-reader/eimadpbcbfnmbkopoojfekhnkhdbieeh",
  "maxReviews": 15
}

Output

The Actor saves one result object: a plain-language summary, grouped painPoints (theme + how many reviews mention it + representative quotes), and metadata about the analyzed set.

{
  "summary": "Краткое резюме главных болей пользователей расширения.",
  "painPoints": [
    {
      "title": "Сильно тормозит на больших страницах",
      "mentionCount": 5,
      "quotes": ["It takes 10+ seconds to load a doc..."]
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "totalAnalyzed": 15,
    "negativeFiltered": 10,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
    "sourceUrl": "https://chromewebstore.google.com/...",
    "aiProvider": "openai"
  }
}

How it works

1. Opens the extension's Chrome Web Store reviews page.
2. Collects up to maxReviews reviews (text is mined for pain regardless of star count).
3. An AI step groups recurring complaints and unmet needs into ranked pain points with frequency and representative quotes.

Notes

• Only Chrome Web Store extensions are supported; other hosts are rejected.
• Only public review text is collected; analysis runs on those collected reviews.
• Pain points are grouped by theme, not by rating band.

Pricing

Charged per Apify usage as shown in the pricing box on this page (pay-per-event — no flat subscription). Typical small runs are inexpensive.