Simple script for crawling the Android Marketplace.

The code is forked from AndroidMarketCrawler by Alexandru Nedelcu

For implemetation, see this article for details:

Crawling the Android Marketplace: 155,200 Apps

The following modification has been applied to the original project:

1. Class AndroidAppFetcher to fetch the info of a single app;
2. Language setting could be specfied for fetching apps;
3. Fetch icon, screen and banner image links of an app;
4. A setup.py for the package installation;
5. Crawl app info from Google Play SHOP ANDROID APPS.

Installing dependencies:

easy_install pyquery
easy_install eventlet

Of if you're using pip:

pip install -r reqs.txt

Usage:

#fetch the info of a single app
python android_app_fecher.py app.package.name

#crawl the Android Apps on Google Play
python android_market_crawler.py path/to/destination.json_lines