google-play-scraper

Golang scraper to get data from Google Play Store

This project is inspired by the google-play-scraper node.js project

Installation

go get -u github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/...

Usage

Get app details

Retrieves the full detail of an application.

package main

import (
    "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/app"
)

func main() {
    a := app.New("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox", app.Options{
        Country:  "us",
        Language: "us",
    })
    err := a.LoadDetails()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    err = a.LoadPermissions()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    spew.Dump(a)
}

Search apps

Retrieves a list of apps that results of searching by the given term.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/search"
)

func main() {
    query := search.NewQuery("game", search.PricePaid,
        search.Options{
            Country:  "ru",
            Language: "us",
            Number:   100,
            Discount: true,
            PriceMax: 100,
            ScoreMin: 4,
        })

    err := query.Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    errors := query.LoadMoreDetails(20)
    if len(errors) > 0 {
        panic(errors[0])
    }

    for _, app := range query.Results {
        if !app.IAPOffers {
            fmt.Println(app.Title, app.URL)
        }
    }
}

Get category

Returns a list of clusters for the specified application category.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/category"
    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/store"
)

func main() {
    clusters, err := category.New(store.Game, store.AgeFiveUnder, category.Options{
        Country:  "us",
        Language: "us",
        Number:   100,
    })
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    clusterName := "New & updated games"
    err = clusters[clusterName].Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, app := range clusters[clusterName].Results {
        fmt.Println(app.Title, app.URL)
    }
}

Get collection

Retrieve a list of applications from one of the collections at Google Play.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/collection"
    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/store"
)

func main() {
    c := collection.New(store.TopNewPaid, collection.Options{
        Country: "uk",
        Number:  100,
    })
    err := c.Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, app := range c.Results {
        fmt.Println(app.Title, app.Price, app.URL)
    }
}

Get developer applications

Returns the list of applications by the given developer name or ID

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/developer"
)

func main() {
    dev := developer.New("Google LLC", developer.Options{
        Number: 100,
    })
    err := dev.Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, app := range dev.Results {
        fmt.Println(app.Title, "by", app.Developer, app.URL)
    }
}

Get reviews

Retrieves a page of reviews for a specific application.

Note that this method returns reviews in a specific language (english by default), so you need to try different languages to get more reviews. Also, the counter displayed in the Google Play page refers to the total number of 1-5 stars ratings the application has, not the written reviews count. So if the app has 100k ratings, don't expect to get 100k reviews by using this method.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/reviews"
)

func main() {
    r := reviews.New("com.activision.callofduty.shooter", reviews.Options{
        Number: 100,
    })

    err := r.Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, review := range r.Results {
        fmt.Println(review.Score, review.Text)
    }
}

Get similar

Returns a list of similar apps to the one specified.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/similar"
)

func main() {
    sim := similar.New("com.android.chrome", similar.Options{
        Number: 100,
    })
    err := sim.Run()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, app := range sim.Results {
        fmt.Println(app.Title, app.URL)
    }
}

Get suggest

Given a string returns up to five suggestion to complete a search query term.

package main

import (
    "fmt"

    "github.com/n0madic/google-play-scraper/pkg/suggest"
)

func main() {
    sug, err := suggest.Get("chrome", suggest.Options{
        Country:  "us",
        Language: "us",
    })
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, s := range sug {
        fmt.Println(s)
    }
}