Chapters
The handbook, one chapter at a time.
- Chapter 1. What a Play Store API is, and what it is not
The difference between Google's own developer API and a listing data API, and why the second one exists.
- Chapter 2. Querying the Play Store from Python
One listing, a filtered search, pagination and a polite retry loop, in about thirty lines of Python.
- Chapter 3. Genres, install bands and what "top" means
How the Play Store groups apps, why installs come in bands, and how to rank fairly inside a genre.