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Google Play Console MCP: connect it to Claude Code, plus ready-made skills
Pull new reviews, ratings, crash and ANR rates and install reports from Google Play Console, and report what users said and what broke this week.
How to connect Google Play Console MCP to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
- MCP server. Google doesn't publish one for Play Console. Community MCP servers exist for reviews and releases; check whether one can reply to reviews or upload builds before you give it a service account.
- APIs with a service account. Enable the Google Play Android Developer API (and the Play Developer Reporting API for vitals) in a Google Cloud project, create a service account, and invite its email in Play Console under Users and permissions with access to the apps in the report. Point
GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALSat its key and setPLAY_PACKAGE_NAME. Calls use thehttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisherscope, and the reviews API allows 200 reads an hour per app.
Grant only the app permissions the report needs: View app information for vitals and reports, and Reply to reviews, which Google's reviews guide asks for. Leave release, pricing and store listing permissions off.
1 Google Play Console skill
What agents do with Google Play Console
Google Play data comes from three places. The Google Play Developer API's reviews.list (androidpublisher/v3/applications/{packageName}/reviews) returns reviews with text that were written or edited in the last week, with star rating, comment, language, device, app version and any developer reply; ratings without text and older reviews aren't available there, so a skill runs at least weekly and keeps its own history. reviews.reply posts an answer of up to 350 characters. The Play Developer Reporting API returns Android vitals such as crash rate and ANR rate by app version and device, and install, uninstall and rating statistics arrive as monthly CSV reports in the Cloud Storage bucket shown on Play Console's Download reports page.
App teams schedule new one- and two-star reviews to answer with a suggested reply, crash and ANR rates against Google Play's bad behavior thresholds after each release, and a weekly summary of what reviewers praised and complained about.
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