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Python script to fetch min Android version of an app directly from Google Play Store
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app-min-android-version-fetcher.py
import requests
import csv
import sys
import pandas
from google_play_scraper import app
def min_os_ver(app_id):
print('fetching min os version for app id: ' + str(app_id))
try:
return app(app_id, lang = 'en', country = 'us')['androidVersion']
except:
return '-'
csv_input_file = sys.argv[1]
csv_output_file = sys.argv[2]
csv_input = pandas.read_csv(csv_input_file)
csv_input['minimum_os_version'] = csv_input['app_identifier'].apply(min_os_ver)
csv_input.to_csv(csv_output_file)
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e2po commented Sep 3, 2021

Install

brew install python3
pip3 install pandas
pip3 install requests
pip3 install google-play-scraper

Usage

python3 app-min-android-version-fetcher.py input.csv output.csv

Note: Script requires a CSV input with the application_identifier column.

Sample Input

application_identifier
123
321

Sample Output

application_identifier minimum_os_version
123 13.0
321 11.0

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