# Google Play scraper API — $0.003 per app

> Google Play scraper API: Google Play app detail by package name — rating, reviews, category. $0.003 per delivered app, nothing delivered means nothing charged.

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# Google Play scraper API

A Google Play scraper API for a list of package names or store URLs: title, developer, category, description, rating and review count, price and currency, content rating, install band, icon and the localized store URL.

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$0.003 per delivered app · $2 free every month · Failed runs never billed

POST /v1/scraper/collectors/google_play_apps/run

```
$ curl $QD/google_play_apps/run \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"packages": ["com.spotify.music", "com.whatsapp"], "country": "us", "lang": "en", "max_results": 10}'
{ "status": "done", "count": 10,
  "results": [
    {
      "package": "…",
      "title": "…",
      "developer": "…",
      "developer_url": "…" } ],
  "cost": 0.03 }
# 10 apps × $0.003 · nothing delivered, nothing charged
```

**$0.003 / app**666 apps on the free $2 every month

**Semantic input**packages, country, lang — no URL lists

**Up to 50**apps per run, pagination handled for you

**No browser**read over HTTP/TLS — cheaper and faster than rendering

On this page: [What it is](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#what) [Output fields](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#output) [Inputs](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#input) [Pricing](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#pricing) [Integration](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#integration) [Use cases](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#use-cases) [Versus the alternatives](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#compare) [FAQ](/collectors/google-play-scraper-api/#faq)

## What a Google Play scraper API does

Play has no public catalogue API, so the store page is the source. Rather than dig through the page's internal data arrays — which Play reshuffles constantly — this collector reads the schema.org block the page publishes for search engines: the same values, in a format that stays put.

One detail cost us a silent bug worth knowing about: Play serializes the rating as a string, so a strict type check drops every rating without raising anything. The parser coerces, and the ratings are there.

Input is meaning, not a URL *packages* *country* *lang* *max_results*

## What one app looks like

Every delivered app carries these fields. Nullable means the source did not publish it — the field stays empty instead of being guessed.

| Field | Type | What it holds |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `package` | string | Android package name. |
| `title` | string | App name. |
| `developer` | string · nullable | Developer name. |
| `developer_url` | string · nullable | Developer page URL. |
| `category` | string · nullable | Play category. |
| `description` | string · nullable | Store description (trimmed). |
| `rating` | number · nullable | Average rating. |
| `reviews` | integer · nullable | Rating count. |
| `price` | number · nullable | Numeric price (0 = free). |
| `currency` | string · nullable | Currency code. |
| `content_rating` | string · nullable | Content rating. |
| `operating_system` | string · nullable | Target OS. |
| `installs` | string · nullable | Install band when the page shows one. |
| `icon` | string · nullable | Icon URL. |
| `url` | string | Localized store URL. |

## Inputs

The whole request. Anything you leave out falls back to the default shown in the catalog.

| Input | Type | Required | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `packages` | array | yes | Android package names (com.spotify.music) or Play store URLs. |
| `country` | string | no | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — picks the local site AND the proxy exit (default us). |
| `lang` | string | no | Interface language (hl), e.g. en, it, de. |
| `max_results` | integer | no | How many apps to deliver at most (1–50). You pay only for delivered apps. |

Pricing

## Google Play scraper API pricing

$0.003 per delivered app. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing: blocked pages, challenges and retries are on us, and the $2 monthly allowance covers about 666 apps before you spend anything.

**$0.003**per delivered app*$3 per 1,000 delivered apps*

**666 apps**on the free allowance*$2 every month, no card*

**Zero rows**zero charge*blocks, captchas and retries are on us*

**−30%**on volume tiers*the catalog returns your key's price*

### Pay as you go

$0/mo

- $2 free credit / month

- 60 requests / min

- List unit prices

### Starter

$19/mo

- $15 free credit / month

- 300 requests / min

- 10% off unit prices

Most popular

### Growth

$79/mo

- $50 free credit / month

- 600 requests / min

- 20% off unit prices

### Scale

$299/mo

- $250 free credit / month

- 1,200 requests / min

- 30% off unit prices

Same wallet, same key and same $2 monthly allowance as every other [Data API](https://quanticdata.io/web-data-api-for-ai/). Prices are launch pricing read live from the billing config — `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

Integration

## One POST, typed rows

Base URL `https://api.quanticdata.io/v1`, Bearer auth, the same key as every other Data API. Endpoint: `POST /v1/scraper/collectors/google_play_apps/run`.

```
curl -X POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_play_apps/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"packages":["com.spotify.music","com.whatsapp"],"country":"us","lang":"en","max_results":10}'
```

```
import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_play_apps/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {QD_API_KEY}"},
    json={
        "packages": [
            "com.spotify.music",
            "com.whatsapp"
        ],
        "country": "us",
        "lang": "en",
        "max_results": 10
    },
    timeout=120,
)
for row in r.json()["payload"]["results"]:
    print(row)
```

```
const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/google_play_apps/run",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QD_API_KEY}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({"packages":["com.spotify.music","com.whatsapp"],"country":"us","lang":"en","max_results":10}),
  },
);
const { payload } = await res.json();
console.table(payload.results);
```

```
claude mcp add quantumproxies \
  -e QUANTUMPROXIES_API_KEY=qd_live_your_key_here \
  -- npx -y quantumproxies-mcp

# then, in the chat:
> run the google_play_apps collector with packages=["com.spotify.music","com.whatsapp"] and country="us"
```

## What people build with the Google Play scraper API

Three shapes of work this endpoint was designed around.

### Cross-store comparison

Match an app's Play numbers against its App Store numbers for the same market.

### Portfolio monitoring

Track rating, review count and install band for your apps and your competitors'.

### Store enrichment

Fill a catalogue with category, developer and content rating from the package name alone.

## Google Play scraper API versus rolling your own

The differences that actually cost time when you build this in-house.

|  | DIY scraper | This collector |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Data source | Internal arrays that move each build | The page's schema.org block |
| Failed packages | Empty rows | Reported under failed, never billed |

## Why there is no search input

Google's Play Developer API manages your own releases, products and reports. It has no endpoint for reading another developer's listing, so it does not overlap with this at all.

This collector is package-keyed and deliberately has no search: Play's search results are personalised and rendered client-side, so a scraped "search" would return something no real user saw and would look authoritative while being noise. Package lookup returns exactly what the store publishes for that app. Discovering packages is a separate step — a `site:play.google.com` query through the [search collector](https://quanticdata.io/collectors/google-search-results-api/) is the usual route.

## Limits, durability and the legal bit

Up to 50 packages per run, one fetch each. Rows are read from the page's schema.org block rather than from CSS or internal structures, which is why Play's interface churn does not break them. Unresolvable packages return under `failed`, unbilled. Throughput is your plan's rate limit rather than anything about the collector: 60 requests/minute on pay-as-you-go, up to 1,200 on the top tier.

`installs` is Play's band — "1,000,000+" — delivered as the string shown, because converting it to a number would invent precision Google withheld.

Collecting publicly visible data is generally lawful in most jurisdictions, and courts have repeatedly declined to treat reading a public page as unauthorised access. Google's terms restrict automated access; icons, screenshots and descriptions belong to the developer. None of this is legal advice — get some for your actual use case.

## FAQ

Questions we get about the Google Play scraper API.

[Something else? Ask us →](mailto:hello@quanticdata.io)

### What do I pass as input?

Android package names (com.spotify.music) or full Play store URLs — the collector extracts the id from the URL.

### Do I get install counts?

You get the band Play publishes ("1B+"), because that is what the page states. Nothing more precise exists publicly.

### Can I read a different country or language?

Yes — `country` and `lang` are passed to the store page and returned in the row's URL.

### Is there a free Google Play scraper API?

Every account gets $2 of credit every month with no card, which is about 666 delivered apps on this endpoint at $0.003 each. It renews monthly, and a run that delivers nothing is never billed — so a failed or blocked attempt does not eat the allowance.

### How much does one run cost?

Multiply the rows you actually receive by $0.003. A run capped at 50 apps — the maximum for this collector — costs $0.15 if every row comes back, and less when the source has fewer. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and `GET /v1/scraper/collectors` returns the price your key actually pays.

### Why can't I search Play with it?

Because Play search is personalised and client-side rendered — a scraped result set would not correspond to what any user was shown, while looking like it did. Package-keyed lookup is the part that is reproducible, so that is what the collector claims.

### Are install counts exact?

No, and they cannot be: Google publishes bands rather than numbers. The band is delivered as-is rather than converted, so nothing downstream mistakes it for a measurement.

## Run the Google Play scraper API now

$2 of free credit every month, no card. Your key returns its own prices from `GET /v1/scraper/collectors`.

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