Project Description

GooglePlayStoreScrape is a python module to scrape reviews and other data about any Android App on Google Play Store

Installation

pip install GooglePlayStoreScrape

Requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

If you receive errors related to Chrome Driver package, look at the chrome version installed in your machine and install the compatible version. This package uses 91.0.4472.101.0

Dependencies and Supporting Libraries

Uses Selenium and BeautifulSoup, on calling the functions it opens a chrom window using selenium and scrolls down to open all reviews, till the last page. Window will automatically close when action is completed.

Modules:

• GooglePlayStoreScrape.py : Extracts all information about the app and all reviews
  - get_reviews
  - get_info

get_reviews

Extracts detailed reviews and ratings given to particular android app on play store

Information extracted:

• Detailed Review
• Shortened Review
• Date of Reivew
• Name of Reviewer
• Reply by Developers
• Date of Developer's reply (if any)
• Rating
• Number of People who found the review helpful

Usage:

import GooglePlayStoreScrape as gpss

#define app id and path of chrome driver
app_id = 'com.appname.extension' #example in the app url
country = 'IN'
language = 'en'

gpss.get_reviews(app_id,language,country)

Arguments for get_reviews:

• app_id: App ID of the application given in the play store page url (Example: com.appname.extension )
• language: Language of the application given in the play store page url (Example: en ), Optional Argument Default value = 'en'
• country: Coutry of the application given in the play store page url (Example: IN ), Optional Argument Default value = 'IN'

get_info

Extracts details of particular android app on play store

Information extracted:

• Name
• Genre
• Total Number of Ratings
• Average Rating
• Last Updated Date
• Size
• Number of Installs
• Current Version
• Content Rating
• In-app Products
• Offered by
• Developer Website
• Developer Email
• Privacy Policy
• New Features in Latest Update
• Decription of the App

Usage:

import GooglePlayStoreScrape as gpss

#define app id and path of chrome driver
app_id = 'com.appname.extension' #example in the app url
country = 'IN'
language = 'en'

gpss.get_info(app_id,language,country)

Arguments for get_info:

• app_id: App ID of the application given in the play store page url (Example: com.appname.extension )
• language: Language of the application given in the play store page url (Example: en ), Default value = 'en'
• country: Coutry of the application given in the play store page url (Example: IN ), Default value = 'IN'

Resources

• Google Play Store
• Selenium
• Chrome Driver
• Beautiful Soup
• HTML Parser

Project Links:

• PyPI
• GitHub