Search Google Play with one API call

Read Google Play — Android apps and ratings — without building or maintaining a scraper. Store scrape over a residential proxy. Same response shape as every other platform here, so one parser handles all of them. 2 credits a call.

The call

curl -H "x-api-key: $SS_KEY" \
  "https://api.socialsearchapi.com/v1/gplay/search?query=llm+agents"

This call costs 2 credits once you are on credits. A new account gets 5 free calls on any platform — verify an email and this command runs as-is.

What comes back

A real response from this endpoint, captured on 2026-07-25 and trimmed to one item:

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "gplay",
  "data": {
    "total": 3,
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "notion.id",
        "platform": "gplay",
        "type": "app",
        "title": "Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI",
        "text": "Notion Agent simplifies your needs. Write notes, plan projects & organize tasks",
        "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details/Notion_Notes_Tasks_AI?id=notion.id&hl=en",
        "author_name": "Notion Labs, Inc.",
        "created_at": null,
        "metrics": {
          "rating": 4.580504894256592,
          "rating_count": 377780
        },
        "extra": {
          "category": "PRODUCTIVITY",
          "content_rating": "Everyone",
          "price": "0"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 2
}

Items from Google Play carry: author_name, extra, id, metrics, platform, text, title, type, url.

Why not just scrape it yourself

Google Play has no public API for listings, and the store pages are rendered into a deeply nested JSON blob embedded in the HTML that changes shape periodically. There is no stable first-party path.

• Cost here: 2 credits a call, $0.006 at list.
• Last verified 2026-07-25: 4,262ms for this call.
• Coverage: Public listings. Install counts are the store's banded figures, not exact.

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