Android Scraper - get info about an app in the Google Play Store

android-scraper.py

import argparse
import sys

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests


def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Get info about an app in the Google Play Store")
    parser.add_argument('-v', '--version', action='store_true')
    parser.add_argument('url', help="URL (or namespaced id, like com.example.appname) of the app you want details about")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    url = args.url
    if not url.startswith('http'):
        url = "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=%s" % url

    response = requests.get(url)
    if response.status_code != 200:
        print >> sys.stderr, "Bad status code: %s" % response.status_code
        return

    if args.version:
        soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content)
        div = soup.find(itemprop="softwareVersion")
        print div.string
        return

    print "OK"


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()