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How to scrape Google Play

Google Play (play.google.com) is a software reviews and apps site. This guide is built from our own checks of its public pages: what the pages contain, whether our requests get through right now, and the request settings that worked.

Working

19 of 22 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (86.4%).

Last check 2026-10-13 19:04 UTC · last pass 2026-10-13 19:04 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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Extraction recipe

Search and listing pages carry structured data (SoftwareApplication). You can read those fields straight from the HTML, or select any other field with extract rules (CSS selectors). The recipe below is a set of Scrape API extract rules: we ran it through our API on two real Google Play pages with the settings on this page and kept only the fields that came back on both. It is checked again every week, and hidden if it stops working.

Public pages

Validated 2026-10-13
FieldTypeExample
app.categorytextCOMMUNICATION
app.currencytextUSD
app.nametextWhatsApp Messenger
app.ostextANDROID
app.ratingnumber (as text)4.618333339691162
descriptiontextSimple. Reliable. Private.
imageURLhttps://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/Gqxk4T0uZsDwFp07DE-508hkyvcNm...
urlURLhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en_US

Examples from play.google.com/store/apps/details on 2026-10-13, shortened.

Sample output (real, trimmed)

{
    "app": {
        "category": "COMMUNICATION",
        "currency": "USD",
        "name": "WhatsApp Messenger",
        "os": "ANDROID",
        "rating": "4.618333339691162"
    },
    "description": "Simple. Reliable. Private.",
    "image": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/Gqxk4T0uZsDwFp07DE-508hkyvcNmgFuRwPiwTEfF7D7OzGv1FdHDzEyMxNsSBZLOJlGpe3ULvVM2RgrRAlBqA=s0-br30",
    "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en_US"
}
extract_rules (4 rules)
{
    "app": {
        "type": "fn",
        "fn": "const T = ['SoftwareApplication', 'MobileApplication', 'WebApplication', 'VideoGame']; const n = [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type=\"application/ld+json\"]')].flatMap(s => { try { return [].concat(JSON.parse(s.textContent)).flatMap(x => x['@graph'] || [x]); } catch (e) { return []; } }).find(x => x && [].concat(x['@type']).some(t => T.includes(t))); if (!n) return null; const g = p => p.split('|').map(q => q.split('.').reduce((v, k) => v == null ? v : (Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v)?.[k], n)).find(v => v != null && v !== ''); const all = v => Array.isArray(v) ? v.map(all).filter(x => x != null).join(', ') : (v && typeof v === 'object' ? (v.name ?? v['@id'] ?? null) : (typeof v === 'string' ? v.replace('https://schema.org/', '').replace('http://schema.org/', '') : v ?? null)); const one = v => all(Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v); return { category: all(g('applicationCategory')), currency: all(g('offers.priceCurrency')), name: all(g('name')), os: all(g('operatingSystem')), rating: all(g('aggregateRating.ratingValue')) };"
    },
    "description": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:description\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content"
    },
    "image": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:image\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content"
    },
    "url": {
        "selector": "link[rel=\"canonical\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "href"
    }
}

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one sends the settings on this page and the extraction recipe, prints the extracted JSON, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

Public pages

Runs the recipe on the two pages it was validated on, one after the other.

google_play_page_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Scrape Google Play public pages with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Settings and extract rules validated on real pages on 2026-10-13 (Ujeebu site guide).
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 google_play_page_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
URLS = [
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en_US",
    "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en_US",
]
SETTINGS = {
    "js": True,
}
EXTRACT_RULES = {
    "app": {
        "type": "fn",
        "fn": "const T = ['SoftwareApplication', 'MobileApplication', 'WebApplication', 'VideoGame']; const n = [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type=\"application/ld+json\"]')].flatMap(s => { try { return [].concat(JSON.parse(s.textContent)).flatMap(x => x['@graph'] || [x]); } catch (e) { return []; } }).find(x => x && [].concat(x['@type']).some(t => T.includes(t))); if (!n) return null; const g = p => p.split('|').map(q => q.split('.').reduce((v, k) => v == null ? v : (Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v)?.[k], n)).find(v => v != null && v !== ''); const all = v => Array.isArray(v) ? v.map(all).filter(x => x != null).join(', ') : (v && typeof v === 'object' ? (v.name ?? v['@id'] ?? null) : (typeof v === 'string' ? v.replace('https://schema.org/', '').replace('http://schema.org/', '') : v ?? null)); const one = v => all(Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v); return { category: all(g('applicationCategory')), currency: all(g('offers.priceCurrency')), name: all(g('name')), os: all(g('operatingSystem')), rating: all(g('aggregateRating.ratingValue')) };",
    },
    "description": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:description\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content",
    },
    "image": {
        "selector": "meta[property=\"og:image\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "content",
    },
    "url": {
        "selector": "link[rel=\"canonical\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "href",
    },
}


def scrape(client, url):
    # with extract_rules, client.scrape sends a JSON POST and the API answers {"result": {...}}
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params={**SETTINGS, "extract_rules": EXTRACT_RULES})
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.json()["result"]


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for i, url in enumerate(URLS):
    if i:
        time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time
    print(json.dumps(scrape(client, url), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/google-play.json.

Try it yourself

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URL patterns and pagination

What the URLs look like, read from the pages our checks fetched.

Public pages

Pattern
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id={id}&hl=en_US
Validated on
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp&hl=en_UShttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.music&hl=en_US

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
Costup to 5 credits a request (only HTTP 200 and 404 are billed)

For search and listing pages, change the query or the page parameter in the URL to paginate, and fetch the pages one after another rather than in bursts. Our checks run with JavaScript rendering on (js=true): keep it on. Start with the default (rotating) proxy, the cheapest one that passed most of its attempts in our checks.

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ProxyAttemptsPassed
Default (rotating)77

The cheapest proxy that passes most of our checks of this site.

Troubleshooting

The failures our own checks of play.google.com ran into over the last 7 days, and what got the page in the same check.

What happenedTimesWhat fixed it
The page did not load in time 3 Nothing we tried in the same check. Retry later, one request at a time.

A failed request is not billed: only HTTP 200 and 404 responses cost credits.

What people build with Google Play data

  • App and product researchFollow ratings, review counts and categories of the apps or products you compare.More on this use case
  • Competitor trackingWatch changes to competitor listings: names, prices and descriptions.

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • robots.txt of play.google.com (read 2026-10-13): public pages allowed for generic crawlers; no crawl delay set.
  • Read Google Play's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape Google Play with Ujeebu?

Yes. 19 of 22 checks of public Google Play pages passed in the last 7 days with the settings on this page.

Which settings work for Google Play?

Call /scrape with js=true. On the default (rotating) proxy, 7 of 7 attempts passed in the last 7 days.

How many credits does a Google Play request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 5 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Which fields can I extract from Google Play?

With the extraction recipes on this page, validated on real Google Play pages through our API: public pages: category, currency, name, os, rating, description, image, url. Pass the recipe as extract_rules in a POST to /scrape and the API returns those fields as JSON.

Is it allowed to scrape Google Play?

Its robots.txt allows generic crawlers on the page types in this guide. Collect public pages only, read Google Play's terms of service, keep your request rate modest and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of play.google.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-10-13 19:04:27 UTC; last pass: 2026-10-13 19:04:27 UTC.