https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/google-play-scraper
Simple Google Play Store scraper
https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/google-play-scraper
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Simple Google Play Store scraper
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/google-play-scraper
- Owner: digitalmethodsinitiative
- License: mit
- Created: 2020-06-22T16:38:18.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-11-27T10:56:48.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-11-04T05:21:11.807Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 48.8 KB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 11
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Google Play Store Scraper
This defines a lightweight Python class that can be used to scrape app
information from the Google Play Store. It defines a couple of methods that can
be used to get relevant app IDs given a set of parameters, and a couple of
methods to then scrape data about these app IDs.
Much of this has been adapted from
[google-play-scraper](https://github.com/facundoolano/google-play-scraper), a
nodeJS-based scraper that does similar things. But this scraper uses Python.
## Getting started
The following scrapes app details about all apps similar to the first result
for the 'fortnite' search query:
```
from google_play_scraper.scraper import PlayStoreScraper
scraper = PlayStoreScraper()
results = scraper.get_app_ids_for_query("fortnite")
similar = scraper.get_similar_app_ids_for_app(results[0])
app_details = scraper.get_multiple_app_details(similar)
print(list(app_details))
```
Documentation is not available separately yet, but the code is relatively
simple and you can look in the `scraper.py` file to see what methods are
available and what their parameters are.
## Credits & License
This scraper was developed by the
[Digital Methods Initiative](https://digitalmethods.net), and is distributed
under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details. We additionally thank Iain
Emsley for his contributions to the code.