[android-developers] Re: Collecting my Market installation statistics

Here's what I can open source of the scraper I use:
http://code.google.com/p/skylight1/source/browse/trunk/MarketConsoleScraper/

The juiciest file being here:
http://code.google.com/p/skylight1/source/browse/trunk/MarketConsoleScraper/src/com/wsl/marketconsolescraper/logic/Scraper.java

It currently pulls number of ratings, active installs, total installs,
application name, version, and rating for all apps published by a
Google account specified in a properties file (pathetic security, I
know). It normally runs from a WAR deployed on Tomcat and inserts into
a DB, but can be run from inside Eclipse via the unit tests where it
will output the numbers. HtmlUnit had to be used rather than some
easier scraping options because the numbers are actually retrieved via
AJAX calls, so aren't part of the page unless you have a good
JavaScript implementation.

On Oct 28, 4:40 am, deg <d...@degel.com> wrote:
> On theMarketweb page, I can see how many copies of my apps have been
> installed.
>
> But, this only shows the current total. If I want to see historical
> trends, I need to check the page daily and record thenumbersmyself
> -- an annoyance at best.
>
> Is this info available anywhere on theMarketsite?
> If not, has anyone written a screen-scraping utility (or equivalent)
> that can harvest the data into a spreadsheet?
>
> Thanks,
> David

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