Updated on 2026-05-12 NovaDataHub Engineering
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Play Store Review Fields

Review integrations become much easier when the team agrees on what each field is for before building tagging, dashboards, or release alerts. This page explains how to think about the main NovaDataHub Play Store review fields so product, QA, support, and analytics workflows can model the data cleanly.

Key points

  • Review text, rating, version, and date are usually the first fields teams depend on operationally.
  • Helpful votes and developer replies often matter for support prioritization and workflow context.
  • Collection context such as appId, sort mode, language, and country should travel with the review data.

Common errors

  • 400 appId is required
  • 401 invalid_key
  • 429 rate_limited
Reference details

Parameters, response shape, and operational notes

Parameter notes

  • Do not treat every field as equally important for every workflow. Release QA, sentiment analysis, and competitor research often emphasize different fields.
  • Keep appId, sort mode, language, country, and collection time beside the review records.
  • Plan how your pipeline will handle missing reply text or sparse metadata before production rollout.

Response highlights

  • reviews[].rating and reviews[].text usually drive first-pass sentiment and complaint review.
  • reviews[].version and reviews[].date are especially useful for release monitoring and regression detection.
  • reviews[].reply and helpfulness-style fields can help support and prioritization workflows, but often stay secondary to the core release-analysis fields.

Operational notes

  • Store raw review text even if you also normalize tags or themes.
  • Treat version and date as first-class dimensions when you analyze release impact.
  • Avoid flattening away the collection context that explains which market or sort mode produced the review set.

Implementation checklist

  • Start with one known app and inspect a small payload before designing long-lived schemas.
  • Decide which fields feed release QA, which feed sentiment pipelines, and which remain reference-only.
  • Preserve raw text, version, rating, date, and collection context in downstream storage.
  • Use the review monitoring tutorial and regression guide to validate how the fields will be used later.
Code examples

Visible integration examples

curl

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" "https://novadatahub.com/api/playstore/reviews?appId=com.spotify.music&count=10&sort=newest"

Python

import requests
resp = requests.get('https://novadatahub.com/api/playstore/reviews', params={'appId': 'com.spotify.music', 'count': 10, 'sort': 'newest'}, headers={'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}, timeout=60)
payload = resp.json()
print(payload['reviews'][0].keys())

C# HttpClient

using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY");
var json = await http.GetFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>("https://novadatahub.com/api/playstore/reviews?appId=com.spotify.music&count=10&sort=newest");
Console.WriteLine(json.GetProperty("reviews")[0].ToString());

Sample JSON response

{
  "ok": true,
  "appId": "com.spotify.music",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "rating": 4,
      "author": "Example User",
      "text": "Latest version fixed previous crash issues.",
      "version": "8.9.0",
      "date": "2026-05-10",
      "helpful": 12,
      "reply": "Thanks for the feedback"
    }
  ]
}
Related resources

Move from reference docs into the next relevant workflow

Play Store Reviews API docs

Open the request and reference page that pairs with these field notes.

Open docs

Review monitoring tutorial

See how review fields feed release-monitoring workflows.

Open tutorial

Release regression guide

Connect version, date, rating, and text fields to regression detection.

Open guide

Analyze reviews tutorial

See how structured review fields flow into analysis pipelines.

Open tutorial
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