Back to feed
Dev.to
Dev.to
7/19/2026
Reading Google Play and App Store reviews straight from their JSON, no browser

Reading Google Play and App Store reviews straight from their JSON, no browser

Short summary

Both Google Play and Apple App Store serve reviews as plain JSON accessible via HTTP, eliminating the need for headless browsers. Apple's RSS feed caps at ~500 reviews per storefront but supports per-country pagination. Google Play uses an undocumented internal RPC (batchexecute) with no pagination ceiling. TLS fingerprinting via got-scraping is essential to bypass 403s on Play Store requests.

  • •Apple App Store reviews available via RSS JSON, capped at ~500 per storefront (10 storefronts = ~5K reviews)
  • •Google Play reviews via undocumented batchexecute RPC with unlimited pagination
  • •TLS fingerprinting with got-scraping bypasses Play Store 403 blocks that stock axios/fetch hit

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.

#ai-tools
Read full article at Dev.to

Is this a good recommendation for you?

Comments

Failed to load comments. Please try again.

Explore more

The original title is a how-to guide about scraping Shopify App Store reviews. Let me rewrite it as a punchy mobile feed headline.
Dev.to
How to Get Amazon Review & Rating Data at Scale (and What's Actually Public in 2026)
Dev.to
The original title is: "Scraping Korea's biggest stores: the hidden JSON APIs behind Olive Young, Musinsa & Naver"
Dev.to
How to Scrape G2 Reviews in 2026 (Python + a No-Code Shortcut)
Dev.to