I am looking for a way how to get app versionCode and VersionName from google play with package name via java app in PC. I have seen: https://androidquery.appspot.com/ but it not working anymore and also https://code.google.com/archive/p/android-market-api/ started to making problems and also stopped working, and it requer device ID. Can you help me with some simple solution or API for this? Very important, i need versionCode and VersionName and VersionName is relatively easy to get by parsing html google play app site. The versionCode is very important.
4 Answers
Apart from using JSoup, we can alternatively do pattern matching for getting the app version from playStore.
To match the latest pattern from google playstore ie
<div class="BgcNfc">Current Version</div><span class="htlgb"><div><span class="htlgb">X.X.X</span></div>
we first have to match the above node sequence and then from above sequence get the version value. Below is the code snippet for same:
private String getAppVersion(String patternString, String inputString) {
try{
//Create a pattern
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternString);
if (null == pattern) {
return null;
}
//Match the pattern string in provided string
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(inputString);
if (null != matcher && matcher.find()) {
return matcher.group(1);
}
}catch (PatternSyntaxException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
private String getPlayStoreAppVersion(String appUrlString) {
final String currentVersion_PatternSeq = "<div[^>]*?>Current\\sVersion</div><span[^>]*?>(.*?)><div[^>]*?>(.*?)><span[^>]*?>(.*?)</span>";
final String appVersion_PatternSeq = "htlgb\">([^<]*)</s";
String playStoreAppVersion = null;
BufferedReader inReader = null;
URLConnection uc = null;
StringBuilder urlData = new StringBuilder();
final URL url = new URL(appUrlString);
uc = url.openConnection();
if(uc == null) {
return null;
}
uc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6");
inReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
if (null != inReader) {
String str = "";
while ((str = inReader.readLine()) != null) {
urlData.append(str);
}
}
// Get the current version pattern sequence
String versionString = getAppVersion (currentVersion_PatternSeq, urlData.toString());
if(null == versionString){
return null;
}else{
// get version from "htlgb">X.X.X</span>
playStoreAppVersion = getAppVersion (appVersion_PatternSeq, versionString);
}
return playStoreAppVersion;
}
I got this solved through this. Hope that helps.
Jsoup takes too long, its inefficient, for short easy way with pattermatching:
public class PlayStoreVersionChecker {
public String playStoreVersion = "0.0.0";
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
private String execute(String url) throws IOException {
okhttp3.Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url(url)
.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
return response.body().string();
}
public String getPlayStoreVersion() {
try {
String html = execute("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + APPIDHERE!!! + "&hl=en");
Pattern blockPattern = Pattern.compile("Current Version.*([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)</span>");
Matcher blockMatch = blockPattern.matcher(html);
if(blockMatch.find()) {
Pattern versionPattern = Pattern.compile("[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+");
Matcher versionMatch = versionPattern.matcher(blockMatch.group(0));
if(versionMatch.find()) {
playStoreVersion = versionMatch.group(0);
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return playStoreVersion;
}
}
public class Store {
private Document document;
private final static String baseURL = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=";
public static void main(String[] args) {
}
public Store(String packageName) {
try {
document = Jsoup.connect(baseURL + packageName).userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0").get();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
public String getTitle() {
return document.select("h1.AHFaub > span").text();
}
public String getDeveloper() {
return document.selectFirst("span.UAO9ie > a").text();
}
public String getCategory() {
Elements elements = document.select("span.UAO9ie > a");
for (Element element : elements) {
if (element.hasAttr("itemprop")) {
return element.text();
}
}
return null;
}
public String getIcon() {
return document.select("div.xSyT2c > img").attr("src");
}
public String getBigIcon() {
return document.select("div.xSyT2c > img").attr("srcset").replace(" 2x", "");
}
public List<String> getScreenshots() {
List<String> screenshots = new ArrayList<>();
Elements img = document.select("div.u3EI9e").select("button.Q4vdJd").select("img");
for (Element src : img) {
if (src.hasAttr("data-src")) {
screenshots.add(src.attr("data-src"));
} else {
screenshots.add(src.attr("src"));
}
}
return screenshots;
}
public List<String> getBigScreenshots() {
List<String> screenshots = new ArrayList<>();
Elements img = document.select("div.u3EI9e").select("button.Q4vdJd").select("img");
for (Element src : img) {
if (src.hasAttr("data-src")) {
screenshots.add(src.attr("data-srcset").replace(" 2x", ""));
} else {
screenshots.add(src.attr("srcset").replace(" 2x", ""));
}
}
return screenshots;
}
public String getDescription() {
return document.select("div.DWPxHb > span").text();
}
public String getRatings() {
return document.select("div.BHMmbe").text();
}
}
Imports
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
import org.jsoup.nodes.Element;
import org.jsoup.select.Elements;
This script will return
Category (Personalization for example) Developer Name App Icon App Name Screenshots (Thumbnail and Full preview) Description
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