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Google Play Unofficial Python API
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details method returns empty type and category #94

Open RankoR opened 5 years ago

RankoR commented 5 years ago

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All other fields are OK.

archon810 commented 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.

RankoR commented 5 years ago

Seems that bulkDetails returns appType, but not a category

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archon810 commented 5 years ago

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.

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rng4life commented 4 years ago

Has anyone found a way to obtain the category information through the API? Scrapers look like the only solution atm. @archon810

archon810 commented 4 years ago

@sebsz perhaps

rng4life commented 4 years ago

I pulled in data from https://github.com/danieliu/play-scraper, works pretty well. play_scraper.details(package_name)

SeBsZ commented 4 years ago

@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.

rng4life commented 4 years ago

@SeBsZ Badges in the returned json data?

SeBsZ commented 4 years ago

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.

rng4life commented 4 years ago

Gotcha, thanks for the info. I haven't messed with the protobuf at all yet, looks like a mess.