MarketBot

MarketBot is a PHP port of Chad Remesch's Ruby Google Play scraper, market_bot, and includes support for the Amazon Appstore and Windows Phone marketplaces.

It currently supports search and scraping apps.

It is being used in production on gdgt.

Currently supported markets

• Amazon App Store
• Google Play
• Windows Phone

Wishlist

• iTunes

Dependencies

• PHPQuery

Examples

These examples assume you have MarketBot already loaded via your autoloader or some other method.

Amazon Appstore

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\Android\AmazonAppstore;
$response = $market->search('engadget');
var_dump($response);
exit;

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\Android\AmazonAppstore;
$response = $market->get('B007C9TQNY');
var_dump($response);
exit;

Google Play

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\Android\GooglePlay;
$response = $market->search('engadget');
var_dump($response);
exit;

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\Android\GooglePlay;
$response = $market->get('com.aol.mobile.engadget', 'apps');
var_dump($response);
exit;

Windows Phone

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\WindowsPhone;
$response = $market->search('engadget');
var_dump($response);
exit;

$market = new PastFuture\MarketBot\WindowsPhone;
$response = $market->get('engadget/24541df1-1aa0-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8');
var_dump($response);
exit;