• GooglePlayApi

• Python 2.7+
• Requests
• PyMongo
• lxml
• pytagcloud
• simplejson

We are using MongoDB for storage.

• apps: This collections stores the application's IDs. { "_id" : ObjectId("51983e8c8c65f2e78e8c7e09"), "appid" : "com.facebook.katana", "details" : { "appDetails" : { "versionCode" : "204208", "installationSize" : 18804498, "numDownloads" : "100,000,000+", "packageName" : "com.facebook.katana", "uploadDate" : "May 17, 2013" } }, "detailsUrl" : "details?doc=com.facebook.katana", "shareUrl" : "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana", "purchaseDetailsUrl" : "details?doc=com.facebook.katana", "backendDocid" : "com.facebook.katana", "docType" : 1, "backendId" : 3, "title" : "Facebook", "creator" : "Facebook" }
• updates: This collections stores the update notes. { "_id" : ObjectId("51982aa0a8d4f42d5253d80f"), "uploaded" : "May 17, 2013", "update_note" : "What's in this version:• Send stickers to make your messages more fun• Delete unwanted comments from your posts• Get directions, check in, call businesses and more right from the top of Facebook Pages", "appid" : "com.facebook.katana", "version" : "Varies with device", "published" : "May 17, 2013", "versionCode" : "204208", "dt" : ISODate("2013-05-19T01:28:00.823Z") }

*appid index: *db.apps.ensureIndex({"appid":1}, {unique: true})

*update notes index: **db.updates.ensureIndex({"appid":1, "published"}, {unique: true})

$ python fetch_ids.py
2013-05-20 13:52:17,737 - INFO - Conecting to host localhost:27017
2013-05-20 13:52:17,738 - INFO - Using offset 100
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$ python play_parser.py
2013-05-20 13:53:35,225 - INFO - Conecting to host localhost:27017
2013-05-20 13:53:35,227 - INFO - Progress 0 %  of 1631 apps
2013-05-20 13:53:35,230 - INFO - Waiting for 1.0 seconds
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$ python playlysis.py
2013-06-28 20:39:54,753 - INFO - Conecting to host localhost:27017
2013-06-28 20:39:54,761 - INFO - Progress 0 %  of 182 notes
2013-06-28 20:39:54,765 - INFO - Progress 9 %  of 182 notes
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2013-06-28 20:39:54,772 - INFO - Calculating tags
2013-06-28 20:39:56,792 - INFO - Generating cloud_large.png
2013-06-28 20:39:56,792 - INFO - File specs: h=900;w=600; max_tags=100; tag_max_size120
2013-06-28 20:39:58,044 - INFO - cloud_large.png succesfully created. Procces finished.

• Add logging and documentation to playlysis
• Add a web interface