Any advice or tips for scraping data from Play Store?

leechesBleechin

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I need some specific data from the playstore and im just wondering if anyone here has any tips for getting it. I noticed on the browser i only get about 20 apps and it doesn't load more, But on my phone i can access them all. Does this mean i have to scrape from an emulator?

 

automationstudioai

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You could indeed use an emulator to scrape it with Appium

 

leechesBleechin

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automationstudioai said:

You could indeed use an emulator to scrape it with Appium

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It was too much of a pita to deal with android stuff on linux so i just used OCR and grabbed everything i needed from a automated series of screenshots

 

FUTP

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Seems, that you should play with scroll to load more apps. Try to emulate that behavior with Chronium or some other headless browser