Getting Data from Android Play Store

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I have seen some Apps and Websites who use Data from the Android Play store  E g  Apps or Sites with a top Apps ranking etc  But how can you get the Data  From where I can parse it

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The Google Play Store doesn t provide this data  so the sites must just be scraping it

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I ve coded a small Node js module to scrape app and list data from Google Play  google-play-scraper  var gplay   require  google-play-scrapper     gplay List       category  gplay category GAME ACTION      collection  gplay collection TOP FREE      num  2      then console log     Results        url   https   play google com store apps details id com playappking busrush       appId   com playappking busrush       title   Bus Rush       developer   Play App King       icon   https   lh3 googleusercontent com R6hmyJ6ls6wskk5hHFoW02yEyJpSG36il4JBkVf-Aojb1q4ZJ9nrGsx6lwsRtnTqfA w340       score  3 9      price   0       free  false        url   https   play google com store apps details id com yodo1 crossyroad       appId   com yodo1 crossyroad       title   Crossy Road       developer   Yodo1 Games       icon   https   lh3 googleusercontent com doHqbSPNekdR694M-4rAu9P2B3V6ivff76fqItheZGJiN4NBw6TrxhIxCEpqgO3jKVg w340       score  4 5      price   0       free  false

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Here s a google chrome extension that ll allow you to download your reviews  https   chrome google com webstore detail my-play-store-reviews ldggikfajgoedghjnflfafiiheagngoa hl en

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Disclaimer  I am from 42matters  who provides this data already on https   42matters com api   feel free to check it out or drop us a line   As lenik mentioned there are open-source libraries that already help with obtaining some data from GPlay  If you want to build one yourself you can try to parse the Google Play App page  but you should pay attention to the following    Make sure the URL you are trying to parse is not blocked in robots txt - e g  https   play google com robots txt Make sure that you are not doing it too often  Google will throttle and potentially blacklist you if you are doing it too much   Send a correct User-Agent header to actually show you are a bot The page of an app is big - make sure you accept gzip and request the mobile version GPlay website is not an API  it doesn t care that you parse it so it will change over time  Make sure you handle changes - e g  by having test to make sure you get what you expected    So that in mind getting one page metadata is a matter of fetching the page html and parsing it properly  With JSoup you can try         HttpClient httpClient   HttpClientBuilder create   build          HttpGet request   new HttpGet crawlUrl         HttpResponse rsp   httpClient execute request          int statusCode   rsp getStatusLine   getStatusCode           if  statusCode    200               String content   EntityUtils toString rsp getEntity                    Document doc   Jsoup parse content                parse content  whatever you need            Element price   doc select   itemprop price    first                    For that very simple use case that should get you started  However  the moment you want to do more interesting stuff  things get complicated    Search is forbidden in robots   Keeping app metadata up-to-date is hard to do  There are more than 2 2m apps  if you want to refresh their metadata daily there are 2 2 requests day  which will 1  get blocked immediately  2  costs a lot of money - pessimistic 220gb data transfer per day if one app is 100k   How do you discover new apps How do you get pricing in each country  translations of each language   The list goes on  If you don t want to do all this by yourself  you can consider 42matters API  which supports lookup and search  top google charts  advanced queries and filters  And this for 35 languages and more than 50 countries    2

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There s an unofficial open-source API for the Android Market you may try to use to get the information you need  Hope this helps

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