Scraping Google Play Without Official APIs: A Practical Node.js Guide

Google Play's lack of an official public API forces developers and marketers to rely on workarounds for app data collection. This guide demonstrates how to extract clean, structured data—including ratings, reviews, and install counts—using a maintained Apify actor instead of manual HTML parsing. For app store optimization professionals and market researchers, this approach provides reliable data access that survives Google's frequent page structure changes.