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Alexis
Alexis

Reputation: 259

API to get android google play reviews(Getting device name and app version)

I want to retrieve all the reviews for a specific app on google play and I need these informations from the reviews : rating, comment, device name and app version the review was wrote for.

I tried to use the android-market-api but sadly I can only get rating, creationtime, authorname, text, authorid.

So I was wondering if there is an API or an url I can send a post or get request (like the android-market-api send a post request) to retrieve the information I need.

Upvotes: 25

Views: 53954

Answers (6)

auselen
auselen

Reputation: 28087

An example in Python with new Reviews API using Service Account credentials.

from httplib2 import Http
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from apiclient.discovery import build

credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name(
    '<secret from service account>.json',
    scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher'])

service = build('androidpublisher', 'v2', http=credentials.authorize(Http()))

package_name = "<package name>"
reviews_resource = service.reviews()
reviews_page = reviews_resource.list(packageName=package_name, maxResults=100).execute()
reviews_list = reviews_page["reviews"]

infinite_loop_canary = 100
while "tokenPagination" in reviews_page:
    reviews_page = reviews_resource.list(packageName=package_name,
                               token=reviews_page["tokenPagination"]["nextPageToken"],
                               maxResults=100).execute()
    reviews_list.extend(reviews_page["reviews"])
    infinite_loop_canary -= 1
    if infinite_loop_canary < 0:
        break

Keep in mind - I found out, Reviews API only allow access to last two weeks comments-ratings. If you want to do some retroactive analysis it is better to get comments-ratings as csv files from where they are saved in your account's bucket on google-cloud.

Upvotes: 13

Jing Li
Jing Li

Reputation: 15116

Finally Google offers it now (announced at Google I/O 2016):

Google Play Reviews API

Upvotes: 16

amalBit
amalBit

Reputation: 12181

Some interesting apis released for getting reviews and reply on google play. You can get the all the data you want:

    "device": string,
    "androidOsVersion": integer,
    "appVersionCode": integer,
    "appVersionName": string

get GET Returns a single review based on review id.
list
Returns a list of reviews from playstore.
reply
Reply to a single review, or update an existing reply.

More here.

Upvotes: 1

mbonnin
mbonnin

Reputation: 7032

If you don't need the information to be realtime, you can download the Google Play Reports from google cloud storage. The reports are built daily.

See https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6135870?p=crash_export&rd=1#export

Upvotes: 1

Wahib Ul Haq
Wahib Ul Haq

Reputation: 4415

I am currently also searching for the same thing. Although its an old thread but just thought to share my research so far in this domain which might be helpful for other visitors.

commercial

open-source

Update :

http://www.playstoreapi.com/docs#app_info (unavailable now !) but instead you can give a try to https://github.com/thetutlage/Google-Play-Store-API/

Upvotes: 2

peekay
peekay

Reputation: 1271

So when people start to answer this question they are going to point you to the following API:

Title: android-market-api.
link: http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/

Unfortunately this API is mediocre and has some problems that I don't think are related to the developers of the API but the interaction with google.

I have used this API and the application I wrote works for finding some app's and their metadata but others it just returns no results. I have been searching for an answer to this for a while and I have yet to figure it out.

Good luck

Upvotes: 1

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