Download Play Store Metadata for your app in a special structure so it can be used in the gradle-play-publisher plugin you can find here: https://github.com/Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher
The guys from Triple-T created a nice gradle plugin that adds publishing tasks to an existing Android Application Project. You can find more information here. That plugin needs a special folder structure for your metadata. This small java tool helps in bootstrapping that strucutre from an existing Play Store entry.
In order to use this tool you need access to your Google Play Developer Console using a so called Service Account E-Mail and a pk12 file. You can find more information on how to create those credentials here: https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/getting_started
Download the sources and compile the project with gradle
./gradlew assemble
Run
java -jar ./build/libs/play-publisher-bootstrap.jar
The tool will ask you for the following information
- Package Name: The package name of your app in the Google Play Store
- Version Code: The current version code (in order to fetch the summary of recent changes)
- Service Account Mail: see https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/getting_started
- Path to pk12 File: see https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/getting_started
- Destination Path: The destination you want to download the metadata to.