About Android Market API

What is Android Market API

Android Market API is an open source Android Market Ruby Library for parsing Android Market information.

This project is under development.

Fell free to clone it and submit your changes to us.

Install the gem

Install it with RubyGems

gem install android_market_api

or add this to your Gemfile if you use Bundler:

gem "android_market_api"

Getting started

For parsing an application on Android Market

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

app=AndroidMarketApplication.new('com.bearstouch.smsscheduler')

# Getting Application Name  
puts app.name             

# Getting Application Current Version
puts app.current_version

# Getting Application Price
puts app.price             

# Getting Ratting Value
puts app.ratting_value

# Getting  Nr of Votes
puts app.ratting_count 

# Getting  Last Update datetime
puts app.updated   

# Getting  SDK Required
puts app.sdk_required

# Getting  Download category 
puts app.downloads

# Getting  Application Size
puts app.size

# Getting  Content Ratting
puts app.contentRating

# Getting  Application description
puts app.description

# Getting Developer Name       
puts app.developer_name

# Getting Icon URL    
puts app.icon

# Getting Screenshot URLs Array
puts app.screenshots

# Getting Last Updates Array
puts app.update_text

Get Top selling free app in position (Overall Ranking)

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

#Overall Position 15 Free Apps
app=AndroidMarket.get_overall_top_selling_free_app(15)

...

Get Top selling paid app in position (Overall Ranking)

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

#Overall Position 20 Free Apps
app=AndroidMarket.get_overall_top_selling_paid_app(20)

...

Get Top selling paid app in position (Category Ranking)

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

#Position 10 in Category 'BOOKS_AND_REFERENCE'
app=AndroidMarket.get_top_selling_paid_app_in_category('BOOKS_AND_REFERENCE',10)

....

Get Top selling free app in position (Category Ranking)

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

#Position 1 in Category COMMUNICATION
app=AndroidMarket.get_top_selling_free_app_in_category('COMMUNICATION',1)

....

Get Game Categories

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

game_categories_ar=AndroidMarket.get_game_categories

...

Get App Categories

require 'rubygems'
require 'android_market_api'

app_categories_ar=AndroidMarket.get_application_categories

...

License and copyright

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

How can i help ?

Contributions are welcome ! The project is mainly missing documentation and examples...