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Kirill Rakhman
Kirill Rakhman

Reputation: 43851

Query Google Play reviews via Cloud Storage API

So Google offers monthly CSV exports of Google Play user reviews and provides a URL that looks like this: https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_XXXXXXXXXX/reviews/ (the actual URL contains numbers instead of X)

I can see that Cloud Storage has a Web API and wanted to try it out via the Google APIs Explorer, so I went to https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/storage/v1/storage.buckets.list, enabled OAuth and entered the the pubsite_prod_rev_XXXXXXXXXX part as project, but unfortunately all I got was a 400 error:

{
"error": {
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"reason": "invalid",
"message": "Invalid argument."
}
],
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid argument."
}
}

Is there a way to access those CSV files via Web API?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 230

Answers (1)

Nathan Herring
Nathan Herring

Reputation: 977

Try https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/storage/v1/storage.objects.list?bucket=pubsite_prod_rev_XXXXXXXXXX&prefix=reviews%252F to list the CSV files. That said, the API explorer does not understand media requests, so to actually download them, you would have to do it separately via the mediaLink URL, which you can calculate if you know the bucket & object, e.g., https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/bucket/o/urlencodedobject?alt=media.

See storage.objects.get documentation for more info.

If you want to go to the UI rather than the API Explorer, you can try https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_XXXXXXXXXX/. If you owned the project (which isn't the case here; Google Play owns it), then you could select the project via https://console.developers.google.com/project/_/storage/browser and view all associated buckets and navigate to objects.

Upvotes: 1

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