apple-store-scraper 0.3.6

Description:

applestorescraper 0.3.6

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Quickstart
Install:
pip3 install apple-store-scraper

Scrape reviews for an app:
from apple_store_scraper import AppStore
from pprint import pprint

minecraft = AppStore(country="nz", app_name="minecraft")
minecraft.review(how_many=20)

pprint(minecraft.reviews)
pprint(minecraft.reviews_count)

Scrape reviews for a podcast:
from apple_store_scraper import Podcast
from pprint import pprint

sysk = Podcast(country="nz", app_name="stuff you should know")
sysk.review(how_many=20)

pprint(sysk.reviews)
pprint(sysk.reviews_count)

Extra Details
Let's continue from the code example used in Quickstart.
Instantiation
There are two required and one positional parameters:

country (required)

two-letter country code of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard


app_name (required)

name of an iOS application to fetch reviews for
also used by search_id() method to search for app_id internally


app_id (positional)

can be passed directly
or ignored to be obtained by search_id method internally



Once instantiated, the object can be examined:
>>> minecraft
AppStore(country='nz', app_name='minecraft', app_id=479516143)

>>> print(app)
Country | nz
Name | minecraft
ID | 479516143
URL | https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/minecraft/id479516143
Review count | 0

Other optional parameters are:

log_format

passed directly to logging.basicConfig(format=log_format)
default is "%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(name)s - %(message)s"


log_level

passed directly to logging.basicConfig(level=log_level)
default is "INFO"


log_interval

log is produced every 5 seconds (by default) as a "heartbeat" (useful for a long scraping session)
default is 5



Fetching Review
The maximum number of reviews fetched per request is 20. To minimise the number of calls, the limit of 20 is hardcoded. This means the review() method will always grab more than the how_many argument supplied with an increment of 20.
>>> minecraft.review(how_many=33)
>>> minecraft.reviews_count
40

If how_many is not provided, review() will terminate after all reviews are fetched.
NOTE the review count seen on the landing page differs from the actual number of reviews fetched. This is simply because only some users who rated the app also leave reviews.
Optional Parameters

after

a datetime object to filter older reviews


sleep

an int to specify seconds to sleep between each call



Review Data
The fetched review data are loaded in memory and live inside reviews attribute as a list of dict.
>>> minecraft.reviews
[{'userName': 'someone', 'rating': 5, 'date': datetime.datetime(...

Each review dictionary has the following schema:
{
"date": datetime.datetime,
"isEdited": bool,
"rating": int,
"review": str,
"title": str,
"userName": str
}