YAAR is a web-based tool that scrapes user reviews from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, allowing you to filter, analyze, and visualize reviews across platforms with beautiful word clouds and intuitive filters.

Built for product teams, indie developers, and analysts who want real insights — without bloated dashboards.

• Scrape Play Store (Android) and App Store (iOS) reviews
• Filter reviews by:
  • Platform (Android/iOS)
  • Star Rating (1–5 stars)
  • Keyword / Word
• Smart Word Cloud:
  • Filters junk words like "the", "and", "to"
  • Smooth animated transitions
  • Click on a word to filter reviews by that word
• Retain all filter selections while exploring
• Clear Filters easily with one click
• Scrapes up to 300 latest reviews per platform
• Supports selecting Play Store country for scraping localized reviews
• Designed for hosting on Railway, Vercel, or any server

• Backend: FastAPI
• Frontend: D3.js for word cloud
• Scrapers:
  • google-play-scraper (Playstore)
  • Official Apple iTunes RSS API (Appstore)
• Hosted using Uvicorn

• Create project folder and enter it mkdir yaar && cd yaar

• Create Python virtual environment python3 -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate

• Install dependencies pip install requirements or pip install fastapi uvicorn jinja2 google-play-scraper python-multipart requests d3-cloud

• Start the FastAPI server uvicorn main:app --reload --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

https://yaar.onrender.com/