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Get Apple App Reviews Results by id

 
This endpoint will provide you with feedback data on applications listed on the App Store platform, including review ratings, review content, user profile info of each reviewer, review publication dates, and more. The results are specific to the app_id as well as the location and language parameters specified in the POST request.

We emulate set parameters with the highest accuracy so that the results you receive will match the actual search results for the specified parameters at the time of task setting. You can always check the returned results accessing the check_url in the Incognito mode to make sure the received data is entirely relevant. Note that user preferences, search history, and other personalized search factors are ignored by our system and thus would not be reflected in the returned results.

Instead of ‘login’ and ‘password’ use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard

<?php
// You can download this file from here https://cdn.dataforseo.com/v3/examples/php/php_RestClient.zip
require('RestClient.php');
$api_url = 'https://api.dataforseo.com/';
// Instead of 'login' and 'password' use your credentials from https://app.dataforseo.com/api-dashboard
$client = new RestClient($api_url, null, 'login', 'password');

try {
	$result = array();
	// #1 - using this method you can get a list of completed tasks
	// GET /v3/app_data/apple/app_reviews/tasks_ready
	$tasks_ready = $client->get('/v3/app_data/apple/app_reviews/tasks_ready');
	// you can find the full list of the response codes here https://docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors
	if (isset($tasks_ready['status_code']) AND $tasks_ready['status_code'] === 20000) {
		foreach ($tasks_ready['tasks'] as $task) {
			if (isset($task['result'])) {
				foreach ($task['result'] as $task_ready) {
					// #2 - using this method you can get results of each completed task
					// GET /v3/app_data/apple/app_reviews/task_get/advanced/$id
					if (isset($task_ready['endpoint_advanced'])) {
						$result[] = $client->get($task_ready['endpoint_advanced']);
					}
					// #3 - another way to get the task results by id
					// GET /v3/app_data/apple/app_reviews/task_get/advanced/$id
					/*
					if (isset($task_ready['id'])) {
						$result[] = $client->get('/v3/app_data/apple/app_reviews/task_get/advanced/' . $task_ready['id']);
					}
					*/
				}
			}
		}
	}
	print_r($result);
	// do something with result
} catch (RestClientException $e) {
	echo "n";
	print "HTTP code: {$e->getHttpCode()}n";
	print "Error code: {$e->getCode()}n";
	print "Message: {$e->getMessage()}n";
	print  $e->getTraceAsString();
	echo "n";
}
$client = null;
?>

The above command returns JSON structured like this:

{
    "version": "0.1.20220422",
    "status_code": 20000,
    "status_message": "Ok.",
    "time": "0.1305 sec.",
    "cost": 0,
    "tasks_count": 1,
    "tasks_error": 0,
    "tasks": [
        {
            "id": "04281549-1535-0425-0000-7b458fefd6d1",
            "status_code": 20000,
            "status_message": "Ok.",
            "time": "0.0405 sec.",
            "cost": 0,
            "result_count": 1,
            "path": [
                "v3",
                "app_data",
                "apple",
                "app_reviews",
                "task_get",
                "advanced",
                "04281549-1535-0425-0000-7b458fefd6d1"
            ],
            "data": {
                "se_type": "reviews",
                "se": "apple",
                "api": "app_data",
                "function": "app_reviews",
                "app_id": "1095569891",
                "location_code": 2840,
                "language_code": "en",
                "depth": 200,
                "device": "desktop",
                "os": "windows"
            },
            "result": [
                {
                    "app_id": "1095569891",
                    "type": "reviews",
                    "se_domain": "itunes.apple.com",
                    "location_code": 2840,
                    "language_code": "en",
                    "check_url": "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1095569891?see-all=reviews",
                    "datetime": "2022-04-28 12:49:56 +00:00",
                    "title": "Wordle!",
                    "rating": {
                        "rating_type": "Max5",
                        "value": 4.49451,
                        "votes_count": 339396,
                        "rating_max": 5
                    },
                    "reviews_count": null,
                    "items_count": 200,
                    "items": [
                        {
                            "type": "app_store_reviews_search",
                            "rank_group": 1,
                            "rank_absolute": 1,
                            "position": "left",
                            "version": "1.6.0",
                            "rating": {
                                "rating_type": "Max5",
                                "value": 4,
                                "votes_count": null,
                                "rating_max": 5
                            },
                            "timestamp": "2022-02-10 18:17:53 +00:00",
                            "title": "Very fun",
                            "review_text": "I do really enjoy this app. Each of the 3 games is really fun in itself. \nI can't give 5 stars because the ads are overwhelming. Too many. You can turn on airplane mode to cut out the ads but then your scores from each game are pancaked giving you bigger scores than what you really earned. Not a huge deal to me. \nAlso the skip button (which you have to buy more if you run out or watch an ad for 3 free) is placed right under the enter button. I've accidentally hit the skip instead of the enter a couple of times. It's annoying and wastes a skip. \nMove the skip button please!",
                            "user_profile": {
                                "profile_name": "antphall",
                                "profile_image_url": null
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "app_store_reviews_search",
                            "rank_group": 2,
                            "rank_absolute": 2,
                            "position": "left",
                            "version": "1.11.0",
                            "rating": {
                                "rating_type": "Max5",
                                "value": 1,
                                "votes_count": null,
                                "rating_max": 5
                            },
                            "timestamp": "2022-03-05 20:59:41 +00:00",
                            "title": "So many ads and alarming amount of background activity",
                            "review_text": "Very little of your time can be spent trying to play the actual game, with all the ads that pop up. And they’re timed ads, so there’s no way to click through them, even if you aren’t at all interested in what they’re selling or EVEN IF YOU ALREADY HAVE WHAT THEY'RE SELLING. I would urge even the most patient and tolerant person not to download this ap, since, even if you don’t mind walking away for a bit while these constant ads play, it seems like there’s a lot of background activity taking place, even while playing the game, causing delays when you’re trying to type your guesses, with huge lags between letters, sometimes even seeming to freeze entirely. I’m not a developer, but I do wonder what is occupying so much of the app’s attention, after signing off on their user agreement and giving permission to god knows what information is being accessed. It’s so bad that it comes to a complete halt at times and crashes entirely. So bad, that I recommend deleting any app that appears to be associated with it, like the ones it advertises, one of which I had considered buying, but now most certainly will not. It the sign of a developer who lacks anything of value to offer, so survives on the sole project of extracting value from others by whatever means is necessary and however possible. \n\ntl/dr: this app is way too expensive — especially the free version. Don’t do it.",
                            "user_profile": {
                                "profile_name": "axel_nelson",
                                "profile_image_url": null
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "app_store_reviews_search",
                            "rank_group": 3,
                            "rank_absolute": 3,
                            "position": "left",
                            "version": "1.14.4",
                            "rating": {
                                "rating_type": "Max5",
                                "value": 5,
                                "votes_count": null,
                                "rating_max": 5
                            },
                            "timestamp": "2022-04-14 00:21:34 +00:00",
                            "title": "I absolutely love it!! but a few things…",
                            "review_text": "This game is ✨AMAZING✨ I love how you can do the daily wordle puzzle and if you already did the daily one, there’s a classic version and it’s just the regular guessing more than once if you’d like. This app also has the secret word which also is awesome, you just have to find the word that somehow has a connection with the other word above. The only thing I don’t like about the secret word is, that there aren’t many word connections, so I’ve memorized some of the patterns…😕 Also another part of this app is where you have to figure out what the word is using the letters you have, in a certain amount of time. This is an awesome feature and I have one recommendation, just a little more time, yet of course I’m a little younger so it’s just barely more difficult. \n\nThis app is fun, cool, amazing, and creative I definitely recommend it!! For all of the word puzzle people out there you would absolutely love this game.",
                            "user_profile": {
                                "profile_name": "EsyGirl🌻🥎🏐🏀💜💜",
                                "profile_image_url": null
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "app_store_reviews_search",
                            "rank_group": 4,
                            "rank_absolute": 4,
                            "position": "left",
                            "version": "1.2",
                            "rating": {
                                "rating_type": "Max5",
                                "value": 2,
                                "votes_count": null,
                                "rating_max": 5
                            },
                            "timestamp": "2022-01-26 12:59:46 +00:00",
                            "title": "needs accessibility features",
                            "review_text": "this is a fun concept, but it’s marred by a few glaring design oversights. the most major issue for me is the font- the stylized bubbly letters are very difficult to tell apart at times (particularly because they’re white letters on a pastel background) and that’s kind of a critical failure in a timed word-making game. it’s also intensely frustrating that you can’t reset your word by any means other than shaking the phone, which wastes a lot of time and is hit or miss in terms of whether or not it even works. you can also reset your word by completing it, but the letters don’t return to their original spots- they get placed in random spots. there is also a noticeable input lag, but that might be a result of my iphone 6S’s performance being crunched by apple as they breathe down my neck about upgrading, so i’d be curious to know if others with newer models encounter this issue. the last issue is the lackluster dictionary. many common words have been rejected and it makes for an incredibly frustrating play experience. overall, this game has a lot of potential, but in its current form, it’s not very fun.",
                            "user_profile": {
                                "profile_name": "deathsquiggles",
                                "profile_image_url": null
                            }
                        },
                        {
                            "type": "app_store_reviews_search",
                            "rank_group": 5,
                            "rank_absolute": 5,
                            "position": "left",
                            "version": "1.9.1",
                            "rating": {
                                "rating_type": "Max5",
                                "value": 3,
                                "votes_count": null,
                                "rating_max": 5
                            },
                            "timestamp": "2022-02-22 23:31:14 +00:00",
                            "title": "Calm down with the ads",
                            "review_text": "This is a basic game where you have six attempts to guess a word, and I find it pretty fun. I want to rate it higher, but there is absolutely no reason there should be an advertisement after every two guesses! Not to mention, the sheer amount of ads makes it actually beneficial to close and reopen the game every time one pops up. I understand wanting an ad after each round maybe, but not three per round, that’s absolutely obscene. There’s been multiple times that I would forget a word I was gonna guess because an ad popped up and took 15 seconds to close, and other times where the game straight up crashed because it couldn’t load an ad. Yes, you’re offering the game for free and that comes with ads, I get that, but at some point it’s infuriating and incentivizes the average person to delete your app in exchange for another, and considering this is a fairly common game of which multiple apps exist to play, I see zero reason to use your app over any of the others.",
                            "user_profile": {
                                "profile_name": "Aaron Siegel",
                                "profile_image_url": null
                            }
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Description of the fields for sending a request:

Field name Type Description
id string task identifier
unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
you will be able to use it within 30 days to request the results of the task at any time

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‌‌As a response of the API server, you will receive JSON-encoded data containing a tasks array with the information specific to the set tasks.

Description of the fields in the results array:

Field name Type Description
version string the current version of the API
status_code integer general status code
you can find the full list of the response codes here
Note: we strongly recommend designing a necessary system for handling related exceptional or error conditions
status_message string general informational message
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
time string execution time, seconds
cost float total tasks cost, USD
tasks_count integer the number of tasks in the tasks array
tasks_error integer the number of tasks in the tasks array that were returned an error
tasks array array of tasks
        id string task identifier
unique task identifier in our system in the UUID format
        status_code integer status code of the task
generated by DataForSEO; can be within the following range: 10000-60000
you can find the full list of the response codes here
        status_message string informational message of the task
you can find the full list of general informational messages here
        time string execution time, seconds
        cost float cost of the task, USD
        result_count integer number of elements in the result array
        path array URL path
        data object contains the same parameters that you specified in the POST request
        result array array of results
            app_id string application id received in a POST array
            type string search engine type in a POST array
            se_domain string search engine domain in a POST array
            location_code integer location code in a POST array
            language_code string language code in a POST array
            check_url string direct URL to search engine results
you can use it to make sure that we provided accurate results
            datetime string date and time when the result was received
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”
example:
2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
            title string title of the app
title of the application for which the reviews are collected
            rating object rating of the app
rating of the application for which the reviews are collected
                rating_type string type of rating
here you can find the following elements: Max5, Percents, CustomMax
                value float the average rating based on all reviews
                votes_count integer the number of votes
                rating_max integer the maximum value for a rating_type
            reviews_count integer the total number of reviews
in this case, the value will be null as App Store does not indicate the total number of app reviews
            items_count integer the number of reviews items in the results array
you can get more results by using the depth parameter when setting a task
            items array found reviews
                type string the review’s type
possible review types: "app_store_reviews_search"
                rank_group integer position within a group of elements with identical type values
positions of elements with different type values are omitted from rank_group
                rank_absolute integer absolute rank among all the listed reviews
absolute position among all reviews on the list
                position string the alignment of the review in SERP
can take the following values: left
                version string version of the app
version of the app for which the review is submitted
                rating object the rating score submitted by the reviewer
                    rating_type string the type of the rating
can take the following values: Max5
                    value float the value of the rating
                    votes_count integer the amount of feedback
in this case, the value will be null
                    rating_max integer the maximum value for a rating_type
the maximum value for Max5 is 5
                timestamp string date and time when the review was published
in the UTC format: “yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss +00:00”;
example:
2019-11-15 12:57:46 +00:00
                title string title of the review
                review_text string content of the review
                user_profile object user profile of the reviewer
                    profile_name string profile name of the reviewer
                    profile_image_url string URL to the reviewer’s profile image

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