Open RankoR opened 5 years ago
As far as I know, even the Play Store app itself stopped showing categories. It's a really weird omission on Google's part. A bug or are they phasing out showing the categories? I don't know, but it's been missing for months.
Seems that bulkDetails
returns appType
, but not a category
Actually, looks like the app category on the Play Store app moved from a distinct category into just one of the tags or whatever these are called.
Has anyone found a way to obtain the category information through the API? Scrapers look like the only solution atm. @archon810
@sebsz perhaps
I pulled in data from https://github.com/danieliu/play-scraper, works pretty well. play_scraper.details(package_name)
@SeBsZ perhaps
What? We've successfully used the badges to grab the category, though most of the names have changed slightly from what they were previously.
@SeBsZ Badges in the returned json data?
Argh, seems gone now. I'm sorry, I thought the badges were still in the level above DocV2, but I forgot those have been removed as well now. Web scraping seems to be our only option at the moment, until someone manages to update the protobuf definition for the googleplay api.
Gotcha, thanks for the info. I haven't messed with the protobuf at all yet, looks like a mess.
All other fields are OK.