Google Play Search Scrapper

Retrieve some useful data from a google play search term

Requirements

• Python 3
• Requests (Pip module)

Config

Configuration is inside scrapper.py file.

- manual_data_scrap (True/False)
Define if the data scrap from the search have to be done from the source code paste in the manual_data_scrap file or the search should be done with the above config terms.

- search_word
Term to be search in Google Play Store

- country_code
Country code of of the country in which the search must be done.

- number_downloads
Shows the number of users that have downloaded the apps in the search in total and per app.
# Warning: This options increments significantly the execution time beware of how many results are you looking at.

Result

The data scrapper shows:

• Number of different app authors in the search
• Number of different app in the search
• Rating average of the apps in the search

For each author it returns:

• The apps with:
  • Rating
  • Downloads number (in case selected in the configuration)
  • Name

(With the correct print it could returns the author and the apps links, but I don't needed and I don't print it, but is in the final data map)