Scraping Google Play reviews offers several valuable benefits including insights into user sentiments, identification of common issues and bugs, market research, competition analysis etc. App review data including ratings, review text, user profile details etc. can be extracted to a spreadsheet or database for research and analysis.
You can use a web scraping tool like WebHarvy to scrape Google Play reviews. WebHarvy is a visual web scraping tool that allows you to easily extract data from websites without any coding knowledge. Alternatively, if you are a developer, you can use headless browsers like Puppeteer, Selenium or Playwright to scrape Google Play reviews. You may also use third party web scraping APIs.
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Follow the steps below to scrape Google Play reviews using WebHarvy. All the required data can be selected for scraping by just clicking over it. Google Play displays user reviews in a popup window that loads more reviews as you scroll down. WebHarvy can be configured to automatically scroll through the reviews popup to load and scrape all reviews.
- 1. Download and install WebHarvy in your computer
- 2. Load the Google Play App page within WebHarvy's browser
- 3. Start Configuration
- 4. Disable Pattern Detection
- 5. Scroll down to the reviews section and click on 'See all reviews' link
- 6. Select the Click option from the resulting Capture window
- 7. Wait for the reviews popup to open
- 8. Enable patterns (reverse of Step 4)
- 9. From the Configuration menu, select Scroll to load next page option from under Pagination pane
- 10. To select details like reviewer name, review text rating etc. click over its text
- 11. Select the Capture Text option from the resulting Capture window
- 12. Stop Configuration
- 13. Save Configuration (optional step)
- 14. Start Mine
- 15. When mining finishes, export data as a spreadsheet file or to a database
Video Demonstration
The following video shows how WebHarvy can be used to scrape Google Play reviews.
Download and Try
We recommend that you download and try the free evaluation version of WebHarvy to see how it can be used to scrape Google Play reviews. The evaluation version is fully functional and allows you to test all features of the software. You can download it from here.