# google-play

The skill gives your agent HTTP access to Android app search, details, reviews and permissions. Useful for ASO research and competitor monitoring.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3600 installs · ★ 2
- Author: fetcher-sh
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/google-play/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/google-play

## What it does

The skill points your agent at `googleplay.fetcher.sh`, an alternative to the Google Play API. Seven GET endpoints cover keyword search with price and country filters, full app details, reviews sorted by newest, rating or helpfulness, requested permissions, the data safety disclosure, similar apps, and a developer's app catalog. No Play Console access and no developer account.

Payment comes in two forms. Prepaid credits with a key in the `Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY` header, or pay-per-call in USDC over x402 — drop the header, and a GET with no payment returns `402` with machine-readable requirements that `@x402/fetch` signs and retries. Each call costs $0.003.

Responses follow `{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }`, and the HTTP status mirrors `status`. There are no rate limits, and no refunds when the upstream fails, because settlement happens before delivery. That is a reason to check your parameters first: a `400` names the bad field, a `401` means an unknown or rotated key. An MCP mode is available too, with free `search_endpoints`, `describe_endpoint` and `check_balance`, plus paid `fetch_data`, `topup_credits` and `googleplay_apps`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-play -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/google-play/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/google-play/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-play -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/google-play/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-play -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/google-play/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills google-play
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/google-play/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-play -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --path skills/google-play
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/google-play/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills --skill google-play -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/fetcher-sh/fetcher-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/google-play/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find free apps by keyword on the German storefront
- pull an app's reviews sorted by rating
- check which permissions a competitor requests
- fetch a developer's full app catalog
- list apps similar to a given one for niche research

## Example prompts
- Search the Play Store for free meditation apps and show their prices
- Fetch reviews for com.spotify.music in country us, sorted by rating
- Show the permissions and data safety disclosure for com.spotify.music

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: google-play
description: >-
  A Google Play Store API alternative on fetcher.sh — pay-per-call in USDC
  via x402, or prepaid credits with a Bearer key, no Google Play Console
  access. Use when the user wants to search Android apps by keyword with
  price (free/paid) and country storefront filters, fetch an app's full
  details, reviews sorted by newest/rating/helpfulness, permissions, or data
  safety disclosure, list apps similar to a given app, or fetch a
  developer's app catalog. Also covers Android app store optimization (ASO)
  research, competitor app monitoring, review sentiment input, and app
  discovery without Google Play Console developer access.
keywords:
  - google-play
  - play-store
  - play-store-api
  - android-apps
  - app-store-optimization
  - aso
  - x402
  - ai-agent
---

# Google Play API

Google Play Store app search, details, reviews, permissions, data safety, and
developer catalogs — one plain HTTP GET per call, paid as you go. No Play
Console access, no developer account, no scraping the storefront HTML.

Base URL: `https://googleplay.fetcher.sh`

## Authentication

Two ways to pay, same data — full mechanics in the [`fetcher`
skill](../fetcher/SKILL.md):

```bash
# 1. Prepaid credits (recommended — get a key at https://fetcher.sh/topup
#    or via POST /api/credits/topup, see the fetcher skill)
export FETCHER_API_KEY="bby_live_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $FETCHER_API_KEY" \
  "https://googleplay.fetcher.sh/api/apps?search=meditation"

# 2. x402 pay-per-call — omit the header; a GET with no payment returns 402
#    with machine-readable payment requirements (USDC on Base, Polygon,
#    Arbitrum, Monad, or Solana). @x402/fetch signs and retries automatically.
```

Every response is `{ "status": number, "message": string, "data": ... }`; the
HTTP status mirrors `status`.

## Endpoints (7 — all GET, $0.003/call)

| Endpoint | What it returns |
| --- | --- |
| `/api/apps` | Apps matching a keyword; price and country filters |
| `/api/apps/{appId}` | An app's full details |
| `/api/apps/{appId}/reviews` | An app's reviews |
| `/api/apps/{appId}/similar` | Apps similar to a given app |
| `/api/apps/{appId}/permissions` | An app's requested permissions |
| `/api/apps/{appId}/datasafety` | An app's data safety disclosure |
| `/api/developers/{developerId}` | A developer's full app catalog |

Required on search: `search`. Optional: `price` (`all`, `free`, `paid`),
`country`, `lang`. Reviews require `country`; optional `sort` (`NEWEST`,
`RATING`, `HELPFULNESS`).

## Scenarios

**Free apps only:**

```bash
````
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