Module: PlayScrape

Defined in:
lib/play_scrape.rb,
lib/play_scrape/app.rb,
lib/play_scrape/version.rb

Defined Under Namespace

Classes: AppInfo

Constant Summary collapse

PLAY_URL = 
'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id='
APP_DESC_CSS_PATH = 
'html body div#wrapper.wrapper-with-footer div#body-content div.details-wrapper div.details-section div.details-section-contents div.show-more-content div.app-orig-desc'
APP_ICON_CSS_PATH = 
'html body div#wrapper.wrapper-with-footer div#body-content div.details-wrapper div.details-info div.cover-container img.cover-image'
APP_RATING_CSS_PATH = 
'div.score'
APP_NUM_RATINGS_CSS_PATH = 
'span.reviews-num'
APP_DEV_URL_CSS_PATH = 
'a.dev-link'
APP_INSTALL_CSS_PATH = 
'div.details-section div.details-section-contents div.meta-info div.content'
VERSION = 
"0.0.1"

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.scrape_app_info(package_name) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/play_scrape.rb', line 18

def self.scrape_app_info(package_name)
  res = Typhoeus.get(PLAY_URL + package_name)

  if res.code == 200
    app_info = PlayScrape::AppInfo.new
    html = Nokogiri::HTML(res.body)
    description = html.css(APP_DESC_CSS_PATH).first
    app_rating = html.css(APP_RATING_CSS_PATH).first
    num_ratings = html.css(APP_NUM_RATINGS_CSS_PATH).first
    icon_url = html.css(APP_ICON_CSS_PATH).first

    # A bit hacky below but it'll do
    installs = html.css(APP_INSTALL_CSS_PATH)[2].text.gsub(",", "").split("-").map(&:to_i)

    dev_links = html.css(APP_DEV_URL_CSS_PATH)
    dev_url = String.new
    if !dev_links.empty? && dev_links.first.text.match(/Visit Developer's Website/)
      regex = /q=(https?:\/\/[\S]+?)&/
      dev_url = dev_links.first.attributes['href'].value.match(regex)[1] 
    end

    app_info.package_name = package_name
    app_info.description = description.inner_html
    app_info.rating = app_rating.text.to_f
    app_info.num_ratings = num_ratings.text.gsub(",", "").to_i
    app_info.icon_url = icon_url
    app_info.dev_url = dev_url
    app_info.min_installs = installs.first
    app_info.max_installs = installs.last

    app_info
  end
end