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Connect to Google Play

Hi Experts,

I'm wondering if Klipfolio could connect to Google Play so that I can get number of installs, star rating etc.?

Any tips would be appreciated.

Many thanks.

Kind regards,
Cheong

 

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    Jorn Reidel

    You can not connect directly to Google Play, but you can use a third party like appFigures for all the app stores out there. I use this service for a client, and it's working very nice. Here is a couple of examples:

    Get all reviews (you have to subscribe to appFigures, and configure your apps first):

    https://api.appfigures.com/v2/reviews?client_key=1234567890123456789023456

    Get app ranking in store per day:

    https://api.appfigures.com/v2/ranks/403xxxx741;4025xxxxx747/daily/{date.tz('cet').last30Days}/{date.tz('cet').today.format()}/?countries=no&format=csv&client_key=1234567890123456789023456

     

    API doc: http://docs.appfigures.com/

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    Meggan King

    The api Google Play has looks to be more for managing app and not much in the way of useful metrics : https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/api-ref/#top_of_page

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    Cheong Koo

    Dear Jorn & Meggan,

    Many thanks.

    I will try out appfigures. Looks like it may solve all our headache. :)

    Kind regards,

    Cheong

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    Jorn Reidel

    appFigures is really powerful, you can also use the API to get public data from your competitors, such as reviews, ratings and ranks (a small fee applies). 

    http://docs.appfigures.com/public-data-access

     

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    Cheong Koo

    Playing around with AppFigures. Just what the doctor ordered. :) Thanks Jorn.

    Managed to pull our Google Play download data into Klipfolio. Now to figure out how to read it in Json format. I need to look through the video to refresh myself. Shouldn't be that difficult.

    Looks like we may have to sign up for an AppFigures subscription.

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    Meggan King

    We have a document which might help:

    https://support.klipfolio.com/hc/en-us/articles/215547118-About-JSON-and-XML-Data-Sources

    Jorn - what's the format like in the JSON data that's returned? Any tips or tricks you can recommend for working with it?

    - Meggan

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    Cheong Koo

    Hi Jorn,

    Happy Tuesday. Not sure if you can help.

    I have managed to pull my data from Google Playstore into Klipfolio through Appfigures Yipee. Unfortunately, our team is using the data "Downloads by Devices" while it looks like Appfigures is returning "Downloads by Users". I have searched but can't find a method to get "Download by Devices".

    Would you know anyway to do this?

    It looks like Google Playstore does not lend it self to an easy way to interface to unlike GA. Sigh. I even tried to link Google Playstore with our GA account but still no luck to get the data into Klipfolio.

    Thank you.

    Kind regards,
    Cheong

     

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