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Google Play extraction / 2026

How to scrape data from Google Play in 2026

Google Play app pages expose useful public product metadata alongside an interactive storefront. Normalization turns an ordinary app URL into one consistent software product with developer, price, rating, description, icon, and screenshots.

Quick answer

Use the public page URL you already have.

Send the ordinary public Google Play URL to extractor.sh. Choose JSON for stable fields or Markdown when an AI model will read the result directly. The API uses GET, so an identical successful request can be served from Cloudflare’s edge cache.

curl --get 'https://extractor.sh/api/extract' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openai.chatgpt' \
  --data-urlencode 'format=json'

Available data

What you can extract

  • App name, package ID, developer, and canonical URL
  • Integer minor-unit price and display price
  • Rating, rating count, category, operating system, and content rating
  • Public app icon, screenshots, and full listing description

AI workflows

Where normalized data helps

  • Android app discovery agents
  • Software catalog enrichment
  • App market RAG pipelines
  • Cross-store product comparison

AI-ready output

Markdown for models. JSON for systems.

Raw HTML consumes tokens on navigation, scripts, styling, and interface labels. Clean Markdown keeps the readable hierarchy for LLM prompts and RAG chunks. Normalized JSON is better when your application needs an explicit semantic type, source, author, publication date, media, attributes, and collection items.

Always retain the canonical URL from the response. AI-generated summaries should remain traceable to the public source, especially when the underlying page can change.

Boundaries

Public data only

  • Only exact public app detail URLs are supported.
  • Search results, categories, reviews, account data, and APK downloads are not included.
  • Availability and prices can vary by country and results may be cached for up to one hour.

extractor.sh does not bypass CAPTCHAs, login walls, paywalls, access controls, or regional restrictions. Review the source’s terms and applicable law before collecting or reusing data.