How to scrape Google Play data with Node.js (no API key needed) (opens in new tab)

Google Play has no official public API for app listings or reviews. So if you want app details, ratings, the ratings histogram, or customer reviews as clean JSON — for ASO tracking, review monitoring, an ML dataset, or market research — you either parse Google's deeply-nested, undocumented page payloads yourself, or you call something that already does. This tutorial does the second thing. We'll pull Google Play data with Node.js in a few lines, without an API key, without proxies, and withou...