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Get app info from Google Play

I’m wondering how various application statistics sites get application information from Google Play. Because the GP does not have a public API. An example is Appaware.com - they have full information about Google Play apps.

A possible solution is scraping, but it doesn’t work because Google will block you when you start sending them hundreds of requests.

Any ideas?

ps The "Google Play Developer APIs" is not a choice, as it allows you to access application information for your applications only.

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They either use the mobile API used by Android devices (i.e. this library ), or they clear the Google Play website. Both methods are subject to speed limits, so they put pauses between requests.

The mobile device API is completely undocumented and very difficult to program. I would recommend a clean up.

There is no official API or feed you can use.

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The Android Marketing API is used to get information about all applications from the Google store, you can check here: https://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ p>

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Unfortunately, Google Play (formerly known as the Android Market) does not provide an official API.

To get the data you need, you can create your own HTML crawler, analyze the page, and extract the necessary application metadata. This topic was covered in other issues, for example here .

If you do not want to implement all this yourself (as you mentioned, this is a complex project), you can use a third-party service to access the metadata of Android applications through the JSON-based API.

For example, 42matters.com (the company for which I work) offers an API for Android and iOS, here is more detailed information:

https://42matters.com/app-market-data

Endpoints range from “search” (to get metadata from one application, maybe what you need) to “search”, but we also show “rank history” and other statistics from leading app stores. We have extensive documentation for all supported functions, you will find them in the left panel: https://42matters.com/docs/overview

I hope this helps, otherwise feel free to contact me. I know this industry well and can point you in the right direction.

Hi,

Andrea

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