ZReviewTender retrieves app reviews from the App Store and Google Play Console using the new Stability API, then sends them to Slack or integrates seamlessly into your workflow.

• 中文 - 免費開源的 App Reviews 監控機器人

Features

• Fetches App Store reviews for both iOS and macOS apps
• Retrieves Google Play Console reviews for Android apps
• Sends the latest reviews to a designated Slack channel
• Automatically translates review content into your preferred language using Google Translate
• Logs reviews to Google Sheets or Asana tasks automatically
• Offers flexible extensions, allowing you to create your own processors (plugins) tailored to your workflow
• Lightweight implementation that only logs the latest review timestamp, avoiding the need to store all reviews locally
• Supports filtering, enabling you to set custom conditions to exclude unwanted reviews
• Built on official APIs (AndroidpublisherV3 and the new AppStoreConnect API), eliminating workarounds and session expiration issues
• Easily deployable using the GitHub Repo Template/GitHub Action
• 100% Ruby@RubyGem

Result

Compare with Similar Services

	ZReviewTender	Appreviewbot.com	Reviewbot.io	Aappbot.co	Appfollow.io	Appfigures.com
Pricing for 2 Apps (Android & iOS)	Forever Free, No Limit	$11.99/month	$5/month	$39/month	$0	$7.99/month
Service Type	PaaS	SaaS	SaaS	SaaS	SaaS	SaaS
Stability & Immediacy	High	High	Untested	Untested	Low	Untested
Countries/Languages Limit	No Limit	No Limit	5	No Limit	No Limit	No Limit
Reviews Monitoring (resend to Slack)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Reviews Auto-Translation	✅ Powered by Google Translate	✅	❌ (not available for basic plan)	✅ (300 Reviews/month)	❌ (not available for free plan)	✅
Customized Review Filtering	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Customized Integration	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌
Reply to Reviews	❌	✅	❌	❌ (not available for small plan)	❌ (not available for free plan)	✅
Reviews Analytics or Reporting	❌	❌	❌ (not available for basic plan)	✅	✅	✅

Setup - Only Need Default Processor (Slack/Filter/Google Translate)

Quick Start! 🚀

• 👉👉👉 Click here to view the complete Quick Start configuration steps document (2024 Latest Edition).
• 👉👉👉 Click here to view the complete Quick Start configuration steps document (2024 Latest Edition).
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The entire setup process takes about 30 minutes, but it only needs to be done once. As long as your credentials and keys remain unchanged, it can run stably and for free forever. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

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Deploy with GitHub Action

Deploy with GitHub Repo Template 🚀🚀🚀

• No need for hosting/server ✅
• No environment requirements ✅
• No engineering background knowledge required ✅
• Only configuration needed ✅
• Completely free ✅

GitHub Action provides 2,000+ minutes/month for free. ZReviewTender will take approximately 30 seconds per run; with a default schedule of every 6 hours, it will cost about 60 minutes/month.

⚠️️️️️ MUST CREATE A PRIVATE REPO TO KEEP YOUR CREDENTIAL FILES SAFE. ⚠️️️️️

Docker

1. Ensure you have Docker installed on your system.
2. Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/ZhgChgLi/ZReviewTender
3. Navigate to the directory: cd /ZReviewTender
4. Build the Docker image: docker build -t zreviewtender:latest --build-arg CRON_SETTING="*/30 * * * *" --build-arg ZREVIEWTENDER_COMMAND="-r" .
   • CRON_SETTING = crontab schedule setting
   • ZREVIEWTENDER_COMMAND = ZReviewTender Command (Refer to the configuration block below.)
5. Refer to the configuration block below to complete the setup.
6. Run Docker: docker run -v ./:/usr/src/app zreviewtender
7. Enjoy!

Using Gem

If you are familiar with Ruby:

1. Ensure Ruby is installed in your environment (I use 2.6.5p114).
2. Ensure Bundler is installed in your environment (I use 2.3.13).
3. Type gem install ZReviewTender in the terminal.

If you are NOT familiar with Ruby:

1. MacOS comes with a system Ruby pre-installed, but we DO NOT recommend using that; instead, use Ruby from rvm/rbenv.
2. Install rbenv or rvm to manage your Ruby environment.
3. Install Ruby through rbenv/rvm (you can install Ruby version 2.6.X).
4. Switch the system Ruby to the Ruby from rbenv/rvm.
5. Type which ruby in the terminal to ensure the current Ruby is NOT /usr/bin/ruby.
6. Type gem install ZReviewTender in the terminal.

Setup - Manually (You Can Create Your Own Processor)

1. Clone this repo.
2. Set up the Ruby environment.
3. Run bundle install.
4. Execute with bundle exec bin/ZReviewTender.

Configuration

ZReviewTender uses a YAML file to configure the Apple/Google Review Bot settings.

[Recommended] Use ZReviewTender -i to generate apple.yml & android.yml config files.

Apple (iOS/macOS App)

1. Refer to the apple.example.yml example config YAML file. (Please rename apple.example.yml to apple.yml if you've downloaded it from the reference.)
2. Fill in the configuration in the YAML file:

Go to App Store Connect -> Keys -> App Store Connect API

appStoreConnectIssueID:

appStoreConnectP8PrivateKeyID & appStoreConnectP8PrivateKeyFilePath:

Create a new API Key:

• Name: ZReviewTender
• Access: App Manager

• appStoreConnectP8PrivateKeyID: Key ID
• appStoreConnectP8PrivateKeyFilePath: /AuthKey_XXXXXXXXXX.p8, download the API Key and place it in the /config/ folder (relative path to the config YAML file).

appID:

appID: App Store Connect -> App Store -> General -> App Information -> Apple ID

3. After filling out the configuration in the YAML file, rename apple.example.yml to apple.yml.

Authenticating as a Service Account for Google-Related Services

• Follow the steps in Creating a Service Account in the official documentation to create a GCP service account and download the GCP JSON Private Key.
• Ensure the service account has the necessary access (e.g., Google Translate/Google Android Publisher API/Google Sheets...).

Google Play Console (Android App)

1. Download the android.example.yml config YAML file. (Please rename android.example.yml to android.yml if you've downloaded it from the reference.)
2. Fill in the configuration in the YAML file:

packageName:

packageName: Find the Android App package name in Google Play Console -> Dashboard -> App.

playConsoleDeveloperAccountID & playConsoleAppID:

Find in Google Play Console -> Dashboard -> App -> Page URL:

https://play.google.com/console/developers/**playConsoleDeveloperAccountID**/app/**playConsoleAppID**/app-dashboard

keyFilePath:

Follow the GCP Getting Started Document to create a Google Cloud Project Service Account and link it to your Google Play Console. Enable the Google Play Android Developer API in Google Play Console -> Setup -> API Access.

• Ensure the service account has the necessary access.

keyFilePath: /gcp_key.json, the path to the GCP JSON Private Key, placed in the /config/ folder (relative path to the config YAML file).

Default Processor

FilterProcessor

• class: FilterProcessor, no need to change, it points to lib/Processors/FilterProcessor.rb
• enable: true/false to enable this Processor or not
• keywordsInclude: ["KEYWORD1","KEYWORD2"...] filter out reviews that contain these keywords
• ratingsInclude: [1,2...] 1~5 filter out reviews that contain specific ratings
• territoriesInclude: ["zh-hant","TWN"...] filter out reviews from these territories (Territory (TWN/JPN...) for Apple / Language (zh-hant, en...) for Android)

GoogleTranslateProcessor

• class: GoogleTranslateProcessor, no need to change, it points to lib/Processors/GoogleTranslateProcessor.rb
• enable: true/false to enable this Processor or not
• googleTranslateAPIKeyFilePath: /gcp_key.json Google Translate GCP Service Account JSON Private Key File Path *.json, placed in the /config/ folder (relative path to the config YAML file)
• Ensure the service account has the necessary access (Google Translate API)
• googleTranslateTargetLang: zh-TW Target translated language
• googleTranslateTerritoriesExclude: ["zh-hant","TWN"...] (Territory (TWN/JPN...) for Apple or Language (zh-hant, en...) for Android reviews that don't need translation.)

SlackProcessor

• class: SlackProcessor, no need to change, it points to lib/Processors/SlackProcessor.rb
• enable: true/false to enable this Processor or not
• slackTimeZoneOffset: +08:00 timezone for displaying review creation time
• slackAttachmentGroupByNumber: 1 specify how many reviews will be grouped in the same Slack message (in Attachment)
• slackBotToken: xoxb-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx Slack Bot Token
• slackBotTargetChannel: CXXXXXX Channel ID (not channel name), and you need to add the Slack Bot to this channel
• slackInCommingWebHookURL: https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXX the old method for sending messages to Slack, which will be deprecated.

Please note, this is a legacy custom integration - an outdated way for teams to integrate with Slack. These integrations lack newer features and will be deprecated and possibly removed in the future. We do not recommend their use. Instead, we suggest that you check out their replacement: Slack apps.

ZReviewTender will use slackBotToken by default.

GoogleSheetProcessor

• class: GoogleSheetProcessor, no need to change, it points to lib/Processors/GoogleSheetProcessor.rb
• enable: true/false to enable this Processor or not
• googleSheetAPIKeyFilePath: /gcp_key.json Google Sheet GCP Service Account JSON Private Key File Path *.json, placed in the /config/ folder (relative path to the config YAML file)
• Ensure the service account has the necessary access (Google Sheets API)
• googleSheetTimeZoneOffset: +08:00 timezone for displaying review creation time
• googleSheetInsertStyle.type: "append" # Google Sheet Insert type, append or insert
• googleSheetInsertStyle.at: 0 # required if type is insert, where the index should be inserted
• googleSheetInsertStyle.sheetID: null # required if type is insert, the sheet ID, which you can find in the Google Sheet URL: e.g. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/googleSpreadsheetID/edit#gid=sheetID
• googleSheetInsertStyle.sheetName: "Sheet1" # required if type is append, i.e., Google Sheet tab name
• values: [] # Column data you can use magic variables below to compose strings.

%TITLE% for review's title
%BODY% for review's content
%RATING% for review's rating 1~5
%PLATFORM% for review's platform (Apple or Android)
%ID% for review's ID
%USERNAME% for review's reviewer username
%URL% for link to review
%TERRITORY% for review's territory (language for Android, e.g., zh-Hant, en)
%APPVERSION% for review's reviewer app version
%CREATEDDATE% for review's creation date

• keywordsInclude: ["KEYWORD1","KEYWORD2"...] filter out reviews that contain these keywords you want to log to Google Sheets
• ratingsInclude: [1,2...] 1~5 filter out reviews that contain specific ratings you want to log to Google Sheets
• territoriesInclude: ["zh-hant","TWN"...] filter out reviews from these territories you want to log to Google Sheets (Territory (TWN/JPN...) for Apple / Language (zh-hant, en...) for Android)

*Make sure you add the service account to your Google Sheet with edit permissions.

Custom Processor

1. Clone this project (since ZReviewTender is a complete Gem, you can't modify it dynamically).
2. Refer to Processor.rb, make a copy, and develop the features you want.

initialize

• config: config YAML parameters
• configFilePath: config YAML file path
• baseExecutePath: the path from which the user executes ZReviewTender

processReviews(reviews, platform)

• Input Function
• You will receive the latest reviews list, and you can decide what to do with it, e.g., transform or filter...
• Review Struct: lib/Models/Review.rb
• Remember to return the resulting reviews for the next Processor to use.

3. Add your Processor & any necessary Processor parameters to the config.yml in the processors: section.
4. Test & Run!
5. Done!

*Processors are sensitive to data flow chain and order.

If You Don't Need Some Processors (like Google Translate Processor)

• Set enable to false or simply remove that Processor Setting Block in the config YAML.

Usage

If you haven't installed with Gems, you should use bundle exec ruby bin/ZReviewTender to execute.

Generate config YAML file

ZReviewTender -i

This will generate apple.yml and android.yml in the config/ folder.

Check Both Apple & Android App's Latest Reviews

ZReviewTender -r

This will use apple.yml and android.yml in the config folder.

Check Both Apple & Android App's Latest Reviews, Specify Config YAML File Path

ZReviewTender --run=CONFIG_FOLDER

Check Apple App's Latest Reviews

ZReviewTender -a

This will use apple.yml in the config folder.

Check Apple App's Latest Reviews, Specify Config YAML File Path

ZReviewTender --apple=PATH_TO_APPLE_CONFIG_YAML_FILE

Check Android App's Latest Reviews

ZReviewTender -g

This will use android.yml in the config folder.

Check Android App's Latest Reviews, Specify Config YAML File Path

ZReviewTender --googleAndroid=PATH_TO_ANDROID_CONFIG_YAML_FILE

Clean Last Check Timestamp Log (Back to Initial State)

ZReviewTender -d

Show Current ZReviewTender Version

ZReviewTender -v

Upgrade ZReviewTender to the Latest Release Version (only RubyGem)

ZReviewTender -n

Init (First Time Execution)

You will receive an initialization success message in your Slack Channel!

Latest Check Timestamp Folder & Execute Log:

ZReviewTender will also create latestCheckTimestamp/Apple and latestCheckTimestamp/Android to log the latest checked review timestamps and create execute.log for logging execution errors.

Set Up a Crontab Schedule Job to Execute (Check Latest Review & Process) Periodically

• You can use crontab or any scheduling service to execute ZReviewTender periodically.
• For example, in crontab: 15 */6 * * * ZReviewTender -r
• Please note that Google API only allows retrieving reviews that users have created or modified within the last week, so you cannot set the time period to more than one week.

GitHub Action

ZReviewTender App Reviews Automatic Bot

name: ZReviewTender
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: "15 */6 * * *" # Check for new reviews every 6 hours.

jobs:
  ZReviewTender:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: ZReviewTender Automatic Bot
      uses: ZhgChgLi/ZReviewTender@main
      with:
        command: '-r'

You can change the command to any other ZReviewTender command.

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