Search Apps
curl --request GET \
--url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search \
--header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'import requests
url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search"
headers = {"X-API-Key": "<x-api-key>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};
fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search")
.header("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"query": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"result_count": 123,
"apps": [
{
"app_id": "<string>",
"title": "<string>",
"developer": "<string>",
"summary": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"icon": "<string>",
"header_image": "<string>",
"screenshots": [
"<string>"
],
"score": 123,
"score_text": "<string>",
"installs": "<string>",
"genre": "<string>",
"content_rating": "<string>",
"price": {},
"url": "<string>"
}
]
}Endpoints
Search Apps
Search Google Play for apps and games — the rich result card carries description, installs, rating and price.
GET
/
v1
/
google-play
/
search
Search Apps
curl --request GET \
--url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search \
--header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'import requests
url = "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search"
headers = {"X-API-Key": "<x-api-key>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};
fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search")
.header("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"query": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"result_count": 123,
"apps": [
{
"app_id": "<string>",
"title": "<string>",
"developer": "<string>",
"summary": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"icon": "<string>",
"header_image": "<string>",
"screenshots": [
"<string>"
],
"score": 123,
"score_text": "<string>",
"installs": "<string>",
"genre": "<string>",
"content_rating": "<string>",
"price": {},
"url": "<string>"
}
]
}Search Google Play for apps and games. Each result is a full
AppCard —
description, installs, rating, genre, content rating and price — so a search
result rarely needs a follow-up detail fetch just to rank or filter.
Credits: 5
Authorization
string
required
Your ScrapeBadger API key.
Query Parameters
string
required
Search keywords, e.g.
puzzle.string
default:"en"
Play content language (
hl), e.g. en or pt-BR.string
Restrict by price:
free or paid. Omit for both.Response
string
Echo of the requested query.
string
The Play URL the results were read from.
integer
Apps returned.
AppCard[]
Matching apps, in Play’s ranking order.
Show AppCard
Show AppCard
string
Android package id, e.g.
com.king.candycrushsaga.string
string
string
One-line pitch.
string
Full store description, when the card carries it.
string
string
string[]
number
Average rating, e.g.
4.6.string
Rating as displayed, e.g.
4.6.string
Install band, e.g.
1,000,000,000+.string
string
Price
price, currency, price_text, is_free.string
Example
curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search?query=puzzle&country=US&price=free" \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
const res = await fetch(
"https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search?" +
new URLSearchParams({ query: "puzzle", country: "US", price: "free" }),
{ headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
);
const { apps } = await res.json();
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/search",
headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
params={"query": "puzzle", "country": "US", "price": "free"},
)
apps = res.json()["apps"]
Response
{
"query": "puzzle",
"url": "https://play.google.com/store/search?q=puzzle&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US&price=1",
"result_count": 30,
"apps": [
{
"app_id": "com.king.candycrushsaga",
"title": "Candy Crush Saga",
"developer": "King",
"summary": "Switch and match Candies in this tasty puzzle adventure",
"icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/example=w240-h480-rw",
"header_image": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/example=w720-h310-rw",
"screenshots": ["https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/shot1=w720"],
"score": 4.6,
"score_text": "4.6",
"installs": "1,000,000,000+",
"genre": "Casual",
"content_rating": "Everyone",
"price": { "price": 0.0, "currency": "USD", "price_text": "Free", "is_free": true },
"url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.king.candycrushsaga"
}
]
}
Result depth
Play server-renders about 30 results per query and exposes no page
number — its infinite-scroll continuation is a cluster RPC Google no longer
accepts from outside its own client, so there is deliberately no
page
parameter. Widen a result set with
/apps/{id}/similar and
/developers/{id}.Only the apps catalogue is searched. Play’s books and movies catalogues use
volume ids rather than Android package ids, so they are not returned here —
their ids would 404 against every other route in this API.
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