Google Play Store Scraper
This gem allows you to search the Google Play App store by means of scraping the html search results. An example search result can be seen here
Usage
Start with:
gem install google_play_scraper
or
gem 'google_play_scraper', '~> 0.0.1'
Doing a search
search = GooglePlayScraper::Search.new('Angry Birds')
results = search.run # an array of GooglePlayScraper::App
You can customize the results you get back by passing a hash as the second parameter to GooglePlayScraper::Search constructor.
module GooglePlayScraper
module SearchOptions
CATEGORY = :c
LANGUAGE = :hl
APPLY_SORTING = :sort
SAFE_SEARCH = :safe
NUMBER_OF_RESULTS = :num
end
end
DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
CATEGORY => 'apps',
LANGUAGE => 'en',
APPLY_SORTING => 1, # 0 means no sorting
SAFE_SEARCH => 0, # apply safesearch to results
NUMBER_OF_RESULTS => 10 # number of results to display
}
Your gem doesn't do __ >:(
Create a fork request and provide some kind of rspec test for it - otherwise I might break it accidentially in future.