# oxylabs/google-play-scraper

Google Play Scraper for collecting public details about applications, games, movies & TV shows, books, and more.

Repository: https://github.com/oxylabs/google-play-scraper
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/oxylabs-google-play-scraper
Homepage: https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/serp/google?utm_source=877&utm_medium=affiliate&groupid=877&utm_content=google-play-scraper-github&transaction_id=102c8d36f7f0d0e5797b8f26152160
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: google, google-play, google-play-api, google-play-scraper, google-play-store, scraper, movies-api, google-search-scraper, play-scraper, google-play-scraper-api
Last push: 2026-06-19T07:16:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 35, longevity 78
- inputs: {"age_days": 1097, "days_push": 75, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1693, forks 4 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:23.439325+00:00)

## What it is
A free Python-based Google Play Store scraper that collects public app, movie, and book data via search queries. It is a companion tool to Oxylabs' commercial Scraper API, designed for smaller-scale scraping tasks.

## Use cases
- scrape google play app details
- collect app reviews and download counts
- get movie and book listings from google play
- monitor app prices and versions
- extract play store search results

## When to choose
- you need small-scale public Google Play data quickly
- you want a free, simple Python tool without API keys
- you need data across apps, movies, and books categories

## When to avoid
- you need large-scale, high-volume scraping with anti-blocking
- you need a maintained library with a permissive license (none is provided)
- you need structured API access with SLAs

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, cli
- domain: crawlers, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: google-play, scraper, app-store-data, market-research

## Member repositories
- oxylabs/google-play-scraper (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:23.439325+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:38:11.806366+00:00, confidence not recorded.
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  - homepage: https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/serp/google?utm_source=877&utm_medium=affiliate&groupid=877&utm_content=google-play-scraper-github&transaction_id=102c8d36f7f0d0e5797b8f26152160 (fetched 2026-08-29T11:13:15.385606+00:00, sha 6ec6bb6144d6)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.