Google Play Games store is one of the biggest platforms allowing you to download games for your Android devices. Google Play Games data provides valuable insights into the gaming industry, player behavior, and market dynamics.
You can scrape Google Play Games data to gather insights about market trends, popular game genres, player preferences, and revenue generation. You can also analyze the competitors's games, including their features, user ratings, download statistics, etc.
Many websites are scraping Google Play Games to build a rich data analysis to bootstrap your games. With our Google Play Games API, you can scrape complete information from Google Play. Our APIs respond fast and rich data results.
Setting up a SerpApi account
SerpApi offers a free plan for newly created accounts. Head to the sign-up page to register an account and complete your first search with our interactive playground. When you want to do more searches with us, please visit the pricing page.
Once you are familiar with all results, you can utilize SERP APIs using your API Key.
Scrape your first Google Play Games results with SerpApi
Head to the Google Play Games Results from the documentation on SerpApi for details.
In this tutorial, we will scrape the top highlight games at home page. The data contains: "title", "subtitle", "link", "product_id", "thumbnail", and more. You can also scrape more information with SerpApi.
First, you need to install the SerpApi client library.
pip install google-search-results
Set up the SerpApi credentials and search.
import serpapi
import os, json, csv
params = {
'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY', # your serpapi api
'engine': 'google_play_games', # SerpApi search engine
}
To retrieve Google Play Books Results for a given search query, you can use the following code:
client = serpapi.Client()
results = client.search(params)['items_highlight'][0]
You can store Google Play Games Results JSON data in databases or export them to a CSV file.
import csv
header = ['title', 'subtitle', 'link', 'product_id', 'thumbnail']
with open('google_play_games.csv', 'w', encoding='UTF8', newline='') as f:
writer = csv.writer(f)
writer.writerow(header)
for item in results:
print(item)
writer.writerow([item.get('title'), item.get('subtitle'), item.get('link'), item.get('product_id'), item.get('thumbnail')])
This example is using Python, but you can also use your all your favorite programming languages likes Ruby, NodeJS, Java, PHP, and more.
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