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It would be hard to find someone to just give you away that sort of database since everyone collects and store data according to their needs. Looking at your bl
by pyvek 14y ago
It would be hard to find someone to just give you away that sort of database since everyone collects and store data according to their needs. Looking at your blog posts, it seems that you know programming. Have you tried scraping the data from the respective stores?
- Avalaxy 14y agoI know how to program a crawler (did that for the Windows Store), but the Windows Store simply has a sitemap with links to all the apps. I couldn't something similar for the other stores.
- parad0x1 14y agoHere is a crawler for the Play store (Python): https://github.com/ohwang/scraper https://github.com/ohwang/scraper And for the App Store, try the following: (C#) https://github.com/geykel/AppStoreScraper https://github.com/geykel/AppStoreScraper (JS) https://github.com/johncch/AppStoreScraperJS https://github.com/johncch/AppStoreScraperJS This only scrapes the icons though, but I bet you could adapt it to scrape info too.
- Avalaxy 14y agoThanks! I'm currently trying to write my own scraper for the Apple App Store (C#). Had some code lingering around from the Windows Store crawler that I wrote earlier. I can reuse some parts of it. I'm not sure if the Play Store lists the entire list of apps. The headers say 'popular paid' and 'popular free', but I'm not sure if these are just the 'most popular apps' or 'all apps'.