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JSON search APIs for finding Android apps (on Android Market and elsewhere)?

iTunes offers a JSON API to search by application name (for example, find all applications with the name "Yelp").

We cannot find the equivalent for the Android Market or other Android markets. Does it exist?

The ideal API will allow us to search for any Android application, even if it is listed on Amazon, and not on the Android Market.

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You will not find it. Different sites for aggregation of Android applications (androidpit, androlib, androidzoom, etc.) can offer one that feeds on different markets, but there is no single API that documents all Android applications regardless of the distribution channel (just like there is no single API that documents all iOS apps on iTunes and Cydia).

http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ is the api for a market that supports search. This can be a meaningful start.

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Update

This service has been closed , use https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-play-scraper

Use the WhereDat API:

http://api.wheredatapp.com/search?q=term

Result:

{ apps: [ { category: "Tools", rating: 4.409321308135986, updated: 1431698203, created: 1431082225, icon_url: "https://lh4.ggpht.com/2jbUS9Hz8nWQEZKQR17xpxEnXhlW3tisxmhi-NNrMaA6TQT2RtewoHAezDXCbEPJxg=w300", title: "Terminal Emulator for Android", download_url: "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm", package: "jackpal.androidterm", ratings_count: 81873, short_description: "Access your Android's built-in Linux command line shell. Unleash your inner geek!This is a new version of the popular "Android Terminal Emulator" applica..." } ]}
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