Reviews Scraper for Play Store and App Store

A simple Python Dash web app to scrape reviews for the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.

The app is deployed on vercel at the following link: Revscrap.

Revscraper

The web app consists in just a search bar, in which to insert the url of the app you want to download reviews.
The url has to be a valid Google Play Store or Apple App Store link.

The output is a CSV file with the following columns:

• Datetime: date of the review (%d/%m%Y).
• Username: user that wrote the review.
• Review: text of the review (both title and content).
• Rating: number of stars assigned to the review (1-5).
• Reply: text of the reply to the review.
• Reply Datetime: date of the reply (%d/%m%Y).
• Thumbs Up: number of thumbs up (only for Google Play Store).

Requirements

Vercel currently supports only Python 3.9.

The library used are:

• dash: as the main framework.
• numpy: to manage the csv dataset. Numpy has been used instead of Pandas to keep the serverless function lightweight.
• google-play-scraper: to scrape data from the Google Play Store.
• app-store-scraper: to scrape data from the Apple App Store.