Getting statistics from Google Play Developers with an API

Question

I am in charge of developing a website which should be able to show statistics from both Apple\'s app store and Google Play Store to clients, so they can easily see what\'s

Answer 1

Your Google Play stats are published to files stored in a bucket on Google Cloud Storage (https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6135870?p=financial_export&rd=1#export)

You can either download the gsutil tool mentioned in the above link and set it up as a cron job to copy the files to wherever you want them every day, or you can use the Google Cloud Storage API (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/apis) to go and get the files yourself.

Answer 2

I know this has already been answered, but this solution deserves some extra attention. There is a really good way of getting data from the Developer console. Take a look at: https://github.com/tmurakam/googleplay_dev_scraper

I have it running on my raspberry pi and it works really good. It's pretty simple to install and further automate it with a bash script. I'd really recommend this scraper to anyone interested in getting data from the developer console! With this you can get almost all data from the developer console. I regularly scrape the downloads numbers and save them to my webpage.

Answer 3

It seems that Google has already allowed us to get this data through their API. Here is a page with all the available metrics that you can issue requests for.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/core/dimsmets#mode=web&cats=user,lifetime_value_and_cohorts,channel_grouping,app_tracking

Answer 4

May the source be with you.

Andlytics is open sourced and actively developed, you can probably find something useful in there :)

Answer 5

Why not use App Annie, AppFigures (and similar) API's and let them take care of scraping/interfacing with Google Play and App Store?

http://support.appannie.com/categories/20082753-Analytics-API

http://docs.appfigures.com/

Answer 6

You could use Google Analytics in both IOS and Android projects to record installs and in-app purchases. You can check it out here. It should be very easy to add google analytics to both platforms.