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Single API ☝ App Store Review Scraper 🧹
https://github.com/cowboy-bebug/app-store-scraper
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Single API ☝ App Store Review Scraper 🧹
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cowboy-bebug/app-store-scraper
- Owner: cowboy-bebug
- License: mit
- Archived: true
- Created: 2020-06-14T08:04:24.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-02-16T08:28:27.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-24T18:09:16.483Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: app-store, appstore, review-data, scraper
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 36.1 KB
- Stars: 83
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 48
- Open Issues: 7
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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# Quickstart
Install:
```console
pip3 install app-store-scraper
```
Scrape reviews for an app:
```python
from app_store_scraper import AppStore
from pprint import pprint
minecraft = AppStore(country="nz", app_name="minecraft")
minecraft.review(how_many=20)
pprint(minecraft.reviews)
pprint(minecraft.reviews_count)
```
Scrape reviews for a podcast:
```python
from app_store_scraper import Podcast
from pprint import pprint
sysk = Podcast(country="nz", app_name="stuff you should know")
sysk.review(how_many=20)
pprint(sysk.reviews)
pprint(sysk.reviews_count)
```
# Extra Details
Let's continue from the code example used in [Quickstart](#quickstart).
## Instantiation
There are two required and one positional parameters:
- `country` (required)
- two-letter country code of [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2) standard
- `app_name` (required)
- name of an iOS application to fetch reviews for
- also used by `search_id()` method to search for `app_id` internally
- `app_id` (positional)
- can be passed directly
- or ignored to be obtained by `search_id` method internally
Once instantiated, the object can be examined:
```pycon
>>> minecraft
AppStore(country='nz', app_name='minecraft', app_id=479516143)
```
```pycon
>>> print(app)
Country | nz
Name | minecraft
ID | 479516143
URL | https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/minecraft/id479516143
Review count | 0
```
Other optional parameters are:
- `log_format`
- passed directly to `logging.basicConfig(format=log_format)`
- default is `"%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s - %(message)s"`
- `log_level`
- passed directly to `logging.basicConfig(level=log_level)`
- default is `"INFO"`
- `log_interval`
- log is produced every 5 seconds (by default) as a "heartbeat" (useful for a long scraping session)
- default is `5`
## Fetching Review
The maximum number of reviews fetched per request is 20. To minimise the number of calls, the limit of 20 is hardcoded. This means the `review()` method will always grab more than the `how_many` argument supplied with an increment of 20.
```pycon
>>> minecraft.review(how_many=33)
>>> minecraft.reviews_count
40
```
If `how_many` is not provided, `review()` will terminate after *all* reviews are fetched.
**NOTE** the review count seen on the landing page differs from the actual number of reviews fetched. This is simply because only *some* users who rated the app also leave reviews.
### Optional Parameters
- `after`
- a `datetime` object to filter older reviews
- `sleep`
- an `int` to specify seconds to sleep between each call
## Review Data
The fetched review data are loaded in memory and live inside `reviews` attribute as a list of dict.
```pycon
>>> minecraft.reviews
[{'userName': 'someone', 'rating': 5, 'date': datetime.datetime(...
```
Each review dictionary has the following schema:
```python
{
"date": datetime.datetime,
"isEdited": bool,
"rating": int,
"review": str,
"title": str,
"userName": str
}
```