Re: [android-developers] How can I get app ratings to display on my website?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Spiderfly Studios
<spiderflystudios@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have looked at it and it just isn't well done.  Others say the same thing
> about it.  kinda hacky.  it also doesn't do much good for the average
> person.

It's the same protocol the Android Market client on your phone uses.
It's less hacky than anything you can possibly come up with. If your
definition of 'average person' is 'copy-and-paste PHP programmer', then
maybe you are right, it's not for those.

> As for "scraping", again, it just doesn't work that way without writing some
> very custom and possibly privacy leaking code.  In order to "scrape", one
> would have to either have access to a particular site's API or they would
> have to write a custom script that on page load would check and update the
> always changing and variable data.

Scraping implies the lack of an API. Parsing out two lines from the of HTML
*your own* developer console is hardly privacy leaking code. Surely, you
might have to update your script once in a while if the console changes,
but how hard is that?

Good luck waiting for an official, easy-to-integrate, works-out-of-the-box,
batteries included way to do this.

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