This python script uploads an apk file into Google Play Store using Android Play Publisher API

basic_upload_apks_service_account.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright 2018 Taylor Steil
# 2018-06-28: made the .p12 file an argument
# 2018-06-28: fixed issue with loading in the .p12 file
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"""Uploads an apk to the alpha track."""

import sys
#required on OSX to prevent the default 'six' library from interfering with the needed newer package, 
#as of the 1.4.1 google-api library
sys.path.insert(1, '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages')

import argparse

from googleapiclient.discovery import build
import httplib2
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

TRACK = 'alpha'  # Can be 'alpha', beta', 'production' or 'rollout'
SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL = (
    'YOUR SERVICE ACCOUNT')

# Declare command-line flags.
argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(add_help=False)
argparser.add_argument('package_name',
                       help='The package name. Example: com.android.sample')
argparser.add_argument('apk_file',
                       nargs='?',
                       default='test.apk',
                       help='The path to the APK file to upload.')
argparser.add_argument('key_file',
                       nargs='?',
                       default='key.p12',
                       help='The path to the p12 key file.')


def main():
  # Process flags and read their values.
  flags = argparser.parse_args()

  # Create an httplib2.Http object to handle our HTTP requests and authorize it
  # with the Credentials. Note that the first parameter, service_account_name,
  # is the Email address created for the Service account. It must be the email
  # address associated with the key that was created.
  credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_p12_keyfile(
      SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL,
      flags.key_file,
      scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher'])
  http = httplib2.Http()
  http = credentials.authorize(http)

  service = build('androidpublisher', 'v2', http=http)

  package_name = flags.package_name
  apk_file = flags.apk_file

  try:
    edit_request = service.edits().insert(body={}, packageName=package_name)
    result = edit_request.execute()
    edit_id = result['id']

    apk_response = service.edits().apks().upload(
        editId=edit_id,
        packageName=package_name,
        media_body=apk_file).execute()

    print 'Version code %d has been uploaded' % apk_response['versionCode']

    track_response = service.edits().tracks().update(
        editId=edit_id,
        track=TRACK,
        packageName=package_name,
        body={u'versionCodes': [apk_response['versionCode']]}).execute()

    print 'Track %s is set for version code(s) %s' % (
        track_response['track'], str(track_response['versionCodes']))

    commit_request = service.edits().commit(
        editId=edit_id, packageName=package_name).execute()

    print 'Edit "%s" has been committed' % (commit_request['id'])

  except client.AccessTokenRefreshError:
    print ('The credentials have been revoked or expired, please re-run the '
           'application to re-authorize')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

Google Play Api - Apk Upload.md

In Google Developer Console inside your app project, on the Credentials section, you must create a new "Service Account" "Client ID", if you have not already. And download the p12 file. You need the service account key file, generated in the Google APIs Console into the same directory and rename it to key.p12.

On Google Play Developer Console you have to give permissions to "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL@developer.gserviceaccount.com" for uploading apks.

Installation

Download Google APIs Client Library for Python (google-api-python-client): https://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/ or use pip:

  $ pip install google-api-python-client

Execution

  python basic_upload_apks_service_account.py your.package.name apk-file.apk path-to-credentials.json

Based on https://github.com/googlesamples/android-play-publisher-api/tree/master/v2/python

For Windows/Linux (Py2.7 | Py3+ not tested).

import mimetypes
...
def main():
    mimetypes.add_type("application/vnd.android.package-archive", ".apk")