Google Play App Search API
Scrape Google Play App Search data with one API call. Returns a unified AppList of Google Play apps matching a keyword — title, icon, developer, rating, price/is_free, and store URL on every item, on the same canonical `App` shape used across every app marketplace (`app.store` = "google_play"). Detail-only fields (description, screenshots, installs) are null on search items; fetch /v1/google_play/app-info for the full record. Sourced from DataForSEO's task-based App Data API (first calls ~7-15s, then cached).
Last updated July 2026Maintained by the SocialCrawl team
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The App Search endpoint gives you structured Google Play data with computed fields in a single request. No scraping infrastructure to build or maintain.
Example Request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_play/app-search?query=photo+editor"import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_play/app-search",
params={
'query': 'photo editor',
},
headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()const response = await fetch(
"https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/google_play/app-search?query=photo+editor",
{
headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
},
);
const data = await response.json();Parameters
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | Search keyword (e.g. 'photo editor'). |
| country | No | Storefront country as a DFS location name ('United States') or numeric location code ('2840'). Defaults to the US. |
| language | No | Language code (e.g. 'en'). Defaults to 'en'. |
| depth | No | Number of results to retrieve (default 30, rounded up to multiples of 30, max 300). Note: Google Play's organic keyword search typically exposes only ~30 ranked results, so higher depth values rarely return more. To page deeper for app discovery, use /v1/google_play/app-listings-search (a filterable title/description database with real limit/offset/total). |
How does the Google Play App Search API work?
Send a GET request with your API key and get back clean, structured JSON in our unified schema. Supported computed fields are populated when the source provides the required inputs.
Method
GET
Response
JSON
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'https://www.socialcrawl.dev/v1/tiktok/profile',
params={'handle': 'charlidamelio'},
headers={'x-api-key': 'sc_YOUR_API_KEY'}
)
data = response.json(){
"success": true,
"platform": "tiktok",
"data": {
"author": {
"username": "charlidamelio",
"followers": 152400000
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 12400000000,
"engagement_rate": 0.087
},
"metadata": {
"language": "en",
"content_category": "lifestyle"
}
}
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