In simple English
This library lets your Python code search the Google Play Store. You can download app details, star ratings and user reviews without opening a web browser. It has no external dependencies so it installs cleanly into any project. You only need to know a little Python to call its functions. Google might block your requests if you ask for too much data too fast.
What it is
A Python package that queries the Google Play Store API to extract application metadata and user feedback. It implements search, review pagination and permission lookups into simple function calls.
What it is good for
Solo builders who want to research competitor apps, monitor user reviews or gather training data for sentiment analysis. It removes the need to write custom web scrapers or use expensive commercial data services.
Status
No code changes since 2024-08-05.
- No external dependencies, which keeps installation fast and clean.
- Fetches app details, reviews, permissions and search results through simple Python functions.
- Handles review pagination automatically with continuation tokens.
- Depends on the Google Play Store keeping its internal API structure unchanged.
- Can hit rate limits or get blocked if you scrape thousands of reviews in a short time.
- Requires writing your own error handling for network failures and missing data fields.
Writing custom web scrapers with BeautifulSoup or Selenium to extract store data.
Use it together with pandas to clean and analyze scraped review text.
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source venv/bin/activate pip install google-play-scraper