// google play apps api

The world's cheapest Google Play Apps API

Search and browse Google Play apps as JSON: title, developer, rating, downloads, price, category and screenshots for each app, with charts, categories, device storefronts and continuation tokens.

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$0.15 / 1K requestsPay as you go5 free calls, no card

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Search Google Play

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Query q

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Filters

Chart chartChart identifier such as topselling_free, topselling_paid, or topgrossing. Excludes q and all pagination selectors. Apps and games charts require phone or an omitted store_device. Minimum characters: 1 Maximum characters: 128 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$Category apps_categoryNative app category identifier, such as MEDICAL. Excludes q and an explicit store_device. Minimum characters: 1 Maximum characters: 128 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$Store device store_deviceOmit for the default phone storefront. An explicit selection excludes q and category.Age range ageChildren's age range. Requires apps_category=FAMILY.

Localization

Language hlStorefront language, such as en, de, or zh-TW. Maximum 32 characters. Maximum characters: 32 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z]{2,3}(?:[-_][a-zA-Z0-9]{2,8}){0,3}$Country glTwo-letter country code. Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z]{2}$

Pagination

Next page token next_page_tokenUse the returned next_page_token with the same parameters. Excludes chart, section_page_token, and see_more_token. Minimum characters: 1 Maximum characters: 65536 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_=+/:.-]+$Section page token section_page_tokenContinue one result group using its returned token and the same parameters. Excludes the other pagination selectors and chart. Minimum characters: 1 Maximum characters: 65536 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_=+/:.-]+$See more token see_more_tokenOpen a result collection using its returned token and the same parameters. Excludes the other pagination selectors and chart. Minimum characters: 1 Maximum characters: 65536 Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_=+/:.-]+$

# GET https://ecll-litescrape-v3--site-api-web.modal.run/api/google/play/apps
# pip install litescrape-sdk
import os
from litescrape_sdk import GooglePlayApps, scrape

[result] = scrape(
    [GooglePlayApps(
        q="coffee",
    )],
    api_key="ls_live_your_key",
)
print(result.raise_for_error())

Ready

Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:

organic_results
app_highlight
items_highlight
charts
litescrape_pagination

// what you get

What the Google Play Apps API returns

Search or browse

q searches. Omit it to browse the storefront by category, chart or device.

Charts

chart takes topselling_free, topselling_paid, topgrossing and Google's other lists.

Device storefronts

store_device: phone, tablet, tv, chromebook, watch or car.

Rating, downloads and price

Each item has title, product_id, rating, author, category, downloads, thumbnail, description, screenshots and price.

Three continuation tokens

next_page_token, section_page_token and see_more_token each continue a different part of the page.

Language and country

hl and gl pick the storefront.

// use cases

What teams build with it

01
ASO keyword tracking
Where your app ranks for each term in each country, daily.
02
Category and chart monitoring
Top free, paid and grossing lists by category and device, snapshotted over time.
03
Competitor discovery
Every app Google returns for your category terms, with ratings and download counts.
04
Market datasets
Apps by category and country for analysis, at $0.15 per 1,000 pages.

// why it's the cheapest

Google Play Apps API pricing, per 1,000 requests

Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.

Month-to-month list prices in USD. A provider that bills per record or per queued task shows how it bills instead of a per-request price.
Provider	Plan modeled	Per 1,000 requests	Monthly cost
Litescrape	Flat prepaid rate	$0.15	$15.00
Google Play Store Scraper API (RapidAPI)	Ultra, 100,000 requests	$0.25	$25.00
Google Play Store Scraping API (RapidAPI)	Ultra, 200,000 requests	$0.35	$35.00
Store Apps (RapidAPI)	Ultra, 200,000 requests	$0.75	$75.00
DataForSEO	Standard queue, 30 items per task	$1.20	$120.00
SearchApi	BigData, 100,000 searches	$2.50	$250.00
AppTweak	Pro, top charts, app IDs only	$5.49	$549.00
Apify	Google Play Scraper actor	$0.30 per 1,000 rows, about 30 rows a search

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