# App Reviews Scraper - App Store & Google Play (`thirdwatch/app-reviews-scraper`) Actor

Scrape public mobile app reviews from App Store and Google Play. Extract rating, author, title, text, version, date, country, and platform.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/thirdwatch/app-reviews-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Thirdwatch](https://apify.com/thirdwatch) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.20 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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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.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## App Reviews Scraper

> **Thirdwatch portfolio:** 5K users across 88 public Actors, 2M+ records delivered, and >99% run success. [Explore all Thirdwatch Actors](https://apify.com/thirdwatch).

Scrape public mobile app reviews from:

- Apple App Store RSS customer review feeds (newest first, up to 500 per country)
- Google Play's public reviews endpoint (newest first, with developer replies and
  thumbs-up counts)

Output includes platform, app ID, country, rating, author, title, text, app
version, update date, review URL, and source.

### Filter by star rating to cut cost

Set `ratings` to the star values you want, for example `["1", "2", "3"]` to
collect only negative feedback. You are charged per review returned, so a
rating filter directly reduces the bill:

- **Google Play** filters on the server. Non-matching reviews are never fetched
  or charged, one request per selected star value.
- **App Store** has no rating filter in its public feed. The Actor scans the
  newest 500 reviews per country and returns only the matching ones, so a
  filtered run still returns at most 500 reviews per app and country.

`maxReviewsPerApp` applies after the filter: `maxReviewsPerApp: 100` with
`ratings: ["1"]` returns up to 100 one-star reviews.

### Input

```json
{
  "appUrls": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
    "com.openai.chatgpt"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "ratings": ["1", "2", "3"],
  "country": "us"
}
```

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `appUrls` | App Store URLs or numeric IDs, Google Play URLs or package names. Country is read from the URL when present. |
| `maxReviewsPerApp` | Cap per app, applied after the rating filter (1 to 1000). |
| `ratings` | Star ratings to keep. Empty means all ratings. |
| `country` | Default storefront country for bare IDs and package names. |

# Actor input Schema

## `appUrls` (type: `array`):

App Store URLs/IDs or Google Play URLs/package IDs.

## `maxReviewsPerApp` (type: `integer`):

Maximum reviews to return for each app (after the star-rating filter is applied).

## `ratings` (type: `array`):

Return only reviews with these star ratings, e.g. pick 1, 2 and 3 stars for negative feedback only. Leave empty for all ratings. Google Play filters on the server, so you only pay for matching reviews. The App Store feed has no rating filter, so the Actor scans its latest 500 reviews per country and keeps the matching ones.

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

Default country code for bare app IDs/package IDs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "appUrls": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
    "com.openai.chatgpt"
  ],
  "maxReviewsPerApp": 100,
  "ratings": [],
  "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 = {
    "appUrls": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
        "com.openai.chatgpt"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("thirdwatch/app-reviews-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 = { "appUrls": [
        "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
        "com.openai.chatgpt",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("thirdwatch/app-reviews-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 '{
  "appUrls": [
    "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chatgpt/id6448311069",
    "com.openai.chatgpt"
  ]
}' |
apify call thirdwatch/app-reviews-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,thirdwatch/app-reviews-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/eH2V80CoNGNWjoV67/builds/oYavFWJJJ5g5yLbI8/openapi.json