facundoolano
The country in reviews doesn't load up the reviews of that specific country
I've tried different countries with different big apps that should have reviews from them, but the response is always that of (seemingly) US
To be verified, but I wonder if, using only the country parameter, the langage could be defaulting to "us" anyway. And so you see reviews posted by US users, in your country.
I am facing the same problem. I've actually opened an issue at the Python google-play-scraper repository because it has the same problem. Then I decided to test the javascript lib to see if I could get different results, but it seems the problem is the same.
Probably the google play store page does not differentiate the reviews from each country?
I am facing the same problem. I've actually opened an issue at the Python google-play-scraper repository because it has the same problem. Then I decided to test the javascript lib to see if I could get different results, but it seems the problem is the same.
Probably the google play store page does not differentiate the reviews from each country?
I've tried multiple scrapers at this point: go, python, js. They all have the same issue. I haven't tried the lang+country combo as it seems redundant for something as simple as getting reviews from different countries. Plus I've checked inside the scrapers, they mostly default to en (as do internal api's of google and apple), so i highly doubt it's the reason for the same review output
It really seems that the only relevant parameter is the language.
For example:
When I use lang=pt and country=br, it works correctly fetching the Portuguese reviews from Brazil.
But if I try lang=en and country=br, I would expect to return the reviews written in English in the Brazilian app page. But it goes back to returning the same English reviews from US I think? The same reviews as the other attempts/countries when using lang=en.
It really seems that the only relevant parameter is the language.
For example: When I use
lang=ptandcountry=br, it works correctly fetching the Portuguese reviews from Brazil. But if I trylang=enandcountry=br, I would expect to return the reviews written in English in the Brazilian app page. But it goes back to returning the same English reviews from US I think? The same reviews as the other attempts/countries when usinglang=en.
Weird behaviour, gotta check it out, but thanks a lot
Having this issue as well, willing to sponsor a bounty to get this issue fixed
