I have just started working on Data science project and for one of the project, we need to fetch user reviews from play store. Is there any way I can fetch the reviews without using developer account.
If you are working in Python, you can use google play scraper library.
You can explore this package further. Hope this helps
https://pypi.org/project/google-play-scraper/
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I want to make an app for gamers that uses statistics from the games they play. I want to link Riot/ubisoft/steam/epic games/ account to my app and use the user's game data (with permission of-course). Is there a way to access that information? I was not able to find much on my own. Steam has web apis that might be able to get that information but I don't understand how much information I can get from there as well.
You need to use one of their internal APIs. Ubisoft uses its own demux API. There are several examples on GitHub on how to do that. In my case ,I am grabbing data from tracker.gg and Ubisoft. Here's a repo for my API Server .
https://github.com/alexanderthegreat96/dth-division2-api
hope everyone is doing well. I just got done with a udemy course on react native and am in the process of making my first practice app. It is a book app. I wanted to add a section where users can read reviews about the book from other people. I want to have a rating system and the whole lot. I just wanted to know if there's any way to import those Google book reviews (rating and comments) into my react native app? It could be reviews from any genuine website but I just wanted to know if I can import anything at all. Searching this on Google just points me to the google in app review api which is not at all what I'm looking for at the moment.
Update 27/12/21: As advised in the comments, I've tried searching for Book APIs. Google Books API doesn't seem to return any public ratings or reviews. Goodreads API doesn't work anymore. I dont think there are any other APIs that return public ratings. I think the New York Times API just returns their own review. That's all. What do you suggesst I do?
You need to find a good website that rates books for example amazon and then fetch from there API what ever you need from what ever they offer .
I would like to collect statistics about listed apps in Shopify Store, like number of listed apps, number of reviews for an app, installations, average rate, app category and so on without any private information about stores which have installed the application. I find several blogs which managed to collect such info but unfortunately they are without open code. Is there any way to reach such info through API or something?
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I have found ready-made solution on github https://github.com/usernam3/shopify-app-store-scraper
You can use any open source web scraper to deal with that. Simply scrape the Shopify App store, and build your stats.
You need no API. Just scripting of your own device. Pretty basic stuff.
Im new to the realm of API and I was wondering do I need to paste the code as is or would I need to add javascript and interface to it myself? Im working with commission juntion datafeeds and developer key to make a website that is similar to www.directtextbooks.com
Below is the website link with the instructions that they provide
http://help.cj.com/en/web_services/Product_Catalog_Search_Service_v.2.htm
You can use the API to get data from cj, but the results of the data is for what ever you want to use it for.
Before you start working with API's you should look into programming applications.
I've found a PDF file of Appstore search API, that I can use some parameters to fetch an application's detail information.(sorry I forgot the download url, but I found it in stackoverflow)
But there are so many sites that show you a Top100 list(like appshopper.com), and such as Mobclix.com also provide you the rank information.How can they do that? I didn't find the related API in the PDF file.
I also found an Appstore API by ABTO(http://www.abtollc.com/AppStoreAPI.aspx), but I really wanna do it by myself.
If I clear the 1st question, then I'd like to know the common architecture of building a website based on the appstore data. Do I need a database to cache the appstore's data, and create a batch to fetch the data frequently, execute like once per hour? I think it might not be clever to access the appstore for every user request, and may be there is a access limit of appstore?
Thanks for your help!
You can use the following link to generate a url for querying iTunes Data for things like the top 100 apps in a particular category.
http://itunes.apple.com/rss/generator/
For the top 100 free productivity apps the generated url is
http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/topfreeapplications/sf=143441/limit=100/genre=6007/xml
The PDF that you link to is very old and hasn't been updated in quite some time, but even if you did get that working, it doesn't have "Top 100" selections (to my knowledge).
1.The way people do to get information from the AppStore is to parse the Xml returned from ITunes web call, and get the information they want. There's no official api release from apple.
You may be right, its more clever to save a copy of app information on your server.