query the google play store for the version of an app?

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is there a way to query the play store for the version of an app without the need for user-credentials. I am aware of this unofficial API:

http://code.google.com/p/a

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攒了一身酷

2020-11-30 07:12

Found a suitable API via G+: this is the API: https://androidquery.appspot.com

example call: https://androidquery.appspot.com/api/market?app=org.ligi.fast

and this wrapper/code: https://github.com/androidquery/androidquery

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梦毁少年i

2020-11-30 07:13

Google Play does not provide any official APIs for retrieving metadata. You could however, check the unofficial API at http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/.

Specifically, take a look at the Wiki page HowToSearchApps. The response to the query contains version information:

Your query will be something like:

String query = "maps";
AppsRequest appsRequest = AppsRequest.newBuilder()
                                .setQuery(query)
                                .setStartIndex(0).setEntriesCount(10)
                                .setWithExtendedInfo(true)
                                .build();

session.append(appsRequest, new Callback<AppsResponse>() {
         @Override
         public void onResult(ResponseContext context, AppsResponse response) {
                  // Your code here
                  // response.getApp(0).getCreator() ...
                  // see AppsResponse class definition for more infos
         }
});

Your response will be of the format:

{
  "app": [
    {
      "rating": "4.642857142857143",
      "title": "Ruboto IRB",
      "ratingsCount": 14,
      "creator": "Jan Berkel",
      "appType": "APPLICATION",
      "id": "9089465703133677000",
      "packageName": "org.jruby.ruboto.irb",
      "version": "0.1",
      "versionCode": 1,
      "creatorId": "\"Jan Berkel\"",
      "ExtendedInfo": {
        "category": "Tools",
        "permissionId": [
...

Then of course you may use a JSON Parser or do a string search.

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遥遥无期

2020-11-30 07:30

Also check out: www.playstoreapi.com

It's unofficial but easy to use (free for non commercial use). you can get data about apps, search the play store and get top charts data. from their documentation section:

Node.js:

var request     = require('request');
var apiKey      = 'wij5czxu3mxkzkt9'; // your API key
var packageName = 'com.whatsapp';     // package Name, e.g. com.whatsapp for WhatsApp

var url = 'http://api.playstoreapi.com/v1.1/apps/' + packageName + '?key=' + apiKey;

request({
    url: url,
    json: true
    }, function (error, response, body) {
    if (!error && response.statusCode === 200) {
        console.log(body) // Print the json response
    }
});

HTML/JS:

<html>
<head>
<body>
<p></p>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>

  <script>

  var apiKey = 'wij5czxu3mxkzkt9'; // your API key
  var app    = 'com.whatsapp';     // package com.whatsapp for WhatsApp

  var url = 'http://api.playstoreapi.com/v1.1/apps/' + app + '?key=' + apiKey;

  $.getJSON(url).done(function(appDetails) {
    $('p:last').html(JSON.stringify(appDetails));
  });

  </script>
</body>
</head>
<html>

Python:

import urllib2
import json

packageName = 'com.whatsapp'      # package com.whatsapp for WhatsApp
apiKey      = 'wij5czxu3mxkzkt9'  # your API key

url = 'http://api.playstoreapi.com/v1.1/apps/{0}?key={1}'

response = urllib2.urlopen(url.format(packageName, apiKey))

data = json.load(response)   
print data

C# .NET:

string apiKey = "wij5czxu3mxkzkt9"; // your API key
string app    = "com.whatsapp";     // package com.whatsapp for WhatsApp

string url = "http://api.playstoreapi.com/v1.1/apps/{0}?key={1}";

using (var webClient = new System.Net.WebClient()) {
    string jsonString = webClient.DownloadString(string.Format(url, app, apiKey));
}

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Happy的楠姐

2020-11-30 07:31

Bear in mind that nowadays a lot of apps have multiple versions running. For those apps with one version you can try 42matters Lookup API, it should give you the correct version.

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