How to get app market version information from google play store?

Question

How can I get the application version information from google play store for prompting the user for force/recommended an update of the application when play store applicatio

Answer 1

Old version (NO LONGER WORKS)

Here is jQuery version to get the version number if anyone else needs it.

    $.get("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + packageName + "&hl=en", function(data){
        console.log($('
').html(data).contents().find('div[itemprop="softwareVersion"]').text().trim());
    });

Current solution

Using PHP backend. This has been working for a year now. It seems Google does not change their DOM that often.

public function getAndroidVersion(string $storeUrl): string
{
    $dom = new DOMDocument();
    $dom->loadHTML(file_get_contents($storeUrl));
    libxml_use_internal_errors(false);
    $elements = $dom->getElementsByTagName('span');

    $depth = 0;
    foreach ($elements as $element) {
        foreach ($element->attributes as $attr) {
            if ($attr->nodeName === 'class' && $attr->nodeValue === 'htlgb') {
                $depth++;
                if ($depth === 7) {
                    return preg_replace('/[^0-9.]/', '', $element->nodeValue);
                    break 2;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}