Google Play Scraper enables fast and efficient application data extraction from Google Play, including title, price, version number, download rates, reviews, and more. This short tutorial will show you how to scrape Google Play using Oxylabs’ Scraper API.
You can retrieve Google Play results by providing your target URLs and forming a payload with job parameters. Our API will return the HTML of any public Google Play page you have provided.
The following examples demonstrate how you can get Google Play results in HTML format. To begin, you need to send the request to our API using the Push-Pull method:
import requests
from pprint import pprint
# Structure payload.
payload = {
'source': 'google',
'url': 'https://play.google.com/store/games?hl=en_GB&gl=UK',
'user_agent_type': 'desktop_edge',
'render': 'html',
'geo_location': 'United Kingdom',
'locale': 'en-gb'
}
# Get response.
response = requests.request(
'POST',
'https://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries',
auth=('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD'), #Your credentials go here
json=payload
)
# Instead of response with job status and results url, this will return the
# JSON response with results.
pprint(response.json())Once the job is finished, you can then send another request to retrieve the Google Play results. Here, you must use the job ID value that’s provided in the response of the above code sample:
import requests
from pprint import pprint
# Get response.
response = requests.request(
'GET',
'http://data.oxylabs.io/v1/queries/{job_id}/results',
auth=('USERNAME', 'PASSWORD')
)
# This will return the JSON response with results.
pprint(response.json())Visit our documentation for more information.
The response will be in JSON format, containing HTML content and details about the job itself:
{
"results": [
{
"content": "<!DOCTYPE html><html lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><head><meta http-equiv=\"origin-trial\" content=\"Az520Inasey3TAyqLyojQa8MnmCALSEU29yQFW8dePZ7xQTvSt73pHazLFTK5f7SyLUJSo2uKLesEtEa9aUYcgMAAACPeyJvcmlnaW4iOiJodHRw...",
"created_at": "2023-08-28 14:14:59",
"updated_at": "2023-08-28 14:15:35",
"page": 1,
"url": "https://play.google.com/store/games?hl=en_GB&gl=US",
"job_id": "7101930169060862977",
"status_code": 200
}
]
}With Oxylabs’ Google Play Scraper API, the data extraction process is as easy as it gets. Feel free to contact our 24/7 support team via live chat or email if you need assistance.