Playstore Reviews Scrapper

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/.gitignore

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+bin/
+__pycache__/
+lib/
+lib64
+pyvenv.cfg

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/README.md

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+# Playstore Review Scrapper
+
+    * Automated Playstore Reviews Scrapper using python3 and Selenium. And saves the revies to a csv file for further Data Exploration!
+    * Provide application ids in a file line by line
+
+
+
+# Requirements
+
+    - sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver
+    - Modules specified in requirements.txt
+
+
+
+# Usage
+
+    * python main.py
+
+    * Provide filename for gathering reviews from playstore
+

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/appids.txt

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+com.whatsapp

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/extracter.py

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+import os
+import errno
+import csv
+
+
+#Write the reviews result to csv_file
+def writecsv(filename, dict_data):
+    csv_columns = ['Sno', 'User', 'Rating', 'Review']
+    csv_file = filename + ".csv"
+
+    file_exists = os.path.isfile(csv_file)
+
+    try:
+        with open(csv_file, 'a') as csvfile:
+            writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames=csv_columns)
+            if not file_exists:
+                writer.writeheader()
+            writer.writerow(dict_data)
+    except IOError as ioex:
+        print("I/O error")
+        print("Error occured while extracting Reviews")
+        print('errno:', ioex.errno)
+        print('err code:', errno.errorcode[ioex.errno])

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/main.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+
+import extracter
+import time
+import re
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from selenium import webdriver
+from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
+
+
+def getPlaystoreReviews(app_id):
+
+    # url of the playstore with application_id
+    url = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + app_id + "&showAllReviews=true"
+
+    browser = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver")
+    browser.get(url)
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    #get body content to click buttons
+    elem = browser.find_element_by_tag_name("body")
+
+    no_of_pagedowns = 400
+
+    path1 = '//*[@id="fcxH9b"]/div[4]/c-wiz/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/span/span'
+    path2 = '/html/body/div[1]/div[4]/c-wiz[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/span/span'
+    path3 = '/html/body/div[1]/div[4]/c-wiz/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/span/span'
+
+    # Scroll web page to get data
+    while no_of_pagedowns:
+        elem.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_DOWN)
+
+        if((no_of_pagedowns - 1) % 12 == 0):
+            for path in [path1, path2, path3]:
+                try:
+                    python_button = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(path)[0]
+                    python_button.click()
+                except IndexError:
+                    elem.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_UP)
+                    pass
+
+
+        if((no_of_pagedowns - 1) % 25 == 0):
+            for path in [path1, path2, path3]:
+                try:
+                    elem.send_keys(Keys.PAGE_UP)
+                    python_button = browser.find_elements_by_xpath(path)[0]
+                    python_button.click()
+                except IndexError:
+                    pass
+
+        no_of_pagedowns -= 1
+
+
+    # Now that the page is fully scrolled, grab the source code.
+
+    print("Gathering source information")
+    source_data = browser.page_source
+    time.sleep(1)
+    print("Parsing source data")
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(source_data, 'html.parser')
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    print("Getting source information..")
+    time.sleep(1)
+
+    # Revirew main div
+    review_divs = soup.find("div", {"jsname": "fk8dgd"})
+    print("Gathering reviews information")
+    time.sleep(1)
+    # Find each review div elements
+    reviews = review_divs.findAll("div", {"jscontroller": "H6eOGe"})
+
+    print("Gathering Reviews")
+    print("\t=============Reviews=============")
+    review_count = 0
+    # Iterate through each review get all feilds of comments
+    for div in reviews:
+        review_count += 1
+        user = div.find("span", {"class": "X43Kjb"})
+        user = user.text.encode('unicode-escape').decode('utf-8')
+        rating = div.find("div", {"class", "pf5lIe"})
+        rating = rating.find("div", {"aria-label": re.compile('Rated')})
+        rating = str(rating.get('aria-label'))
+        rating = rating[6]
+        review = div.find("span", {"jsname": "fbQN7e"})
+        review = review.text.encode('unicode-escape').decode('utf-8')
+        if(review == ""):
+            review = div.find("span", {"jsname": "bN97Pc"})
+            review = review.text
+        content = {'Sno': review_count, 'User': user, "Rating": rating, "Review": review}
+
+        print("{} {}".format(review_count, review[0:150]))
+        extracter.writecsv(app_id, content)
+
+    browser.close()
+
+
+def main():
+
+    infile = input("Enter file name: ")
+    # for each application id get the application reviews
+    with open(infile,'r') as file:
+        while 1:
+            application_id = file.readline()
+            if not application_id:
+                break
+            getPlaystoreReviews(application_id)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
+

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/PlayStoreReviewScrapper/requirements.txt

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+beautifulsoup4==4.8.2
+certifi==2019.11.28
+chardet==3.0.4
+idna==2.8
+numpy==1.18.1
+pandas==1.0.0
+python-dateutil==2.8.1
+pytz==2019.3
+requests==2.22.0
+selenium==3.141.0
+six==1.14.0
+soupsieve==1.9.5
+urllib3==1.25.8

Scripts/Web_Scrappers/README.md

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