{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/8"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Scrapes application metadata and listings from the Google Play Store, parsing details like app descriptions, ratings, developer info, and install counts.","skillfed_tags":["web-scraping","android","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Collect metadata on a set of known Android app IDs for analysis, comparison, or archival.","Search Play Store for apps matching keywords and extract basic info (title, developer, rating, price).","Enumerate all apps published by a specific developer to track their portfolio or release history.","Fetch trending or top-rated apps in a category for market research or competitive analysis.","Build a local database snapshot of Play Store app listings at a point in time."],"what_it_does":"play-scraper is a web scraper that extracts application metadata from Google Play Store listings. It parses HTML responses to retrieve app details (title, description, ratings, developer info, screenshots, version history), search results, developer catalogs, and category collections. The package wraps requests, beautifulsoup4, and lxml to handle HTTP requests and DOM parsing.\n\nThe scraper is designed for bulk data collection workflows\u2014fetching app details by ID, searching for apps by query, listing trending or top-rated apps in categories, and discovering all apps from a specific developer. It supports language and region filtering via language and country codes. However, the package has been abandoned since mid-2022 and the repository is archived, meaning it receives no updates for Play Store structure changes or anti-scraping countermeasures.","worth_installing":"No, not recommended for new projects. The package is abandoned (last commit 2022-07-06, archived repository) and web scraping of Play Store is inherently brittle\u2014HTML structure and anti-scraping measures change frequently. Without active maintenance, it will likely fail against the current Play Store. Use the official Google Play Developer API or a maintained alternative if available."},"id":"play-scraper","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/play-scraper","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/play-scraper.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/play-scraper/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2019-09-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"play-scraper","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Google Play Store application scraper"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":76999,"position":14562,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.6.0"}