JoMingyu/google-play-scraper

[BUG] Delayed fetch of app-review data

TaslimOseni opened this issue · 4 comments

TaslimOseni commented

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a designed behavior, but reviews take exactly 24 hours before they show up in the reviews/review_all function. I have tested and confirmed this behavior several times.

Here are more details:

  • I added the sort prop and set it to Sort.NEWEST.
  • I am using version 1.2.4

I'd appreciate some clarification as well as suggestions on how I can work around this.

TaslimOseni commented

@JoMingyu, can you kindly clarify please?

JoMingyu commented

I hadn't thought of that. I'll give it some time to debug.

TaslimOseni commented

Any update on this, @JoMingyu? I just want to confirm if that's the case or if I'm doing something wrong.

Here's an illustration of the problem:
If I post a review on the playstore page of my app, it would take up to 24 hours before the reviews / review-all function starts returning it.

I just want to confirm if that's the default behaviour.

JoMingyu commented

@TaslimOseni

Any update on this, @JoMingyu? I just want to confirm if that's the case or if I'm doing something wrong.

Here's an illustration of the problem: If I post a review on the playstore page of my app, it would take up to 24 hours before the reviews / review-all function starts returning it.

I just want to confirm if that's the default behaviour.

Since this library is basically pulling data from the Google Play webpage, and there's no date-based filtering or caching, it's hard to know where is problem.

It's also hard to reproduce your issue, which is part of what makes debugging difficult.

I'm sorry, but it would be nice if you could be more specific about when a review is written, visible on Google Play, and not visible in the library results.