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list number of apps cannot exceed the offset 500 #31

Closed zyqu closed 10 years ago

zyqu commented 11 years ago

Hello,

Thank you very much for the good work first.

I am trying to get a list of apps, which is in large scale. My scritp is to get 50 apps of each category in a time to the total number 2000.

The problem is that as the offset in the search is larger than 500. The search will come across a failure. I do not think it is caused by the blocking of my IP address. In my manual test, the successful search (offset less than 500) follows tightly with the search with failure. Also, in my script, it sleeps for 10 mins between two searchs.

I appreciate your efforts on reading this problem.

Best regards, Zhengyang

java -jar googleplaycrawler-0.3.jar -f crawler.conf list BOOKS_AND_REFERENCE -s apps_topselling_free -n 50 -o 200 [success]

java -jar googleplaycrawler-0.3.jar -f crawler.conf list BOOKS_AND_REFERENCE -s apps_topselling_free -n 50 -o 500 [failure]

Akdeniz commented 11 years ago

Hi @zyqu,

It is a known restriction of this API. Same behavior can be observed in Android market application on your phone.

So it has nothing with neither ip blocking or intensive usage.