Browse a Category

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "query": "<string>",
  "url": "<string>",
  "result_count": 123,
  "apps": [
    {}
  ]
}

GET

google-play

categories

{category_id}

Browse a Category

curl --request GET \
  --url https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id} \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <x-api-key>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'X-API-Key': '<x-api-key>'}};

fetch('https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "X-API-Key: <x-api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("X-API-Key", "<x-api-key>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/{category_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["X-API-Key"] = '<x-api-key>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "query": "<string>",
  "url": "<string>",
  "result_count": 123,
  "apps": [
    {}
  ]
}

Browse a Play category. Returns every app across all of the category page’s editorial rails (“Popular”, “Be the first to play”, genre spotlights), deduped and in the order Play ranked them — around 100 apps for a broad category like GAME. Credits: 5

This is the working alternative to top charts. Play renders the ranked top-chart list client-side, so /collections/{collection} answers 422. A category browse is server-rendered and returns real data.

Authorization

string

required

Your ScrapeBadger API key.

Path Parameters

string

required

Play category id, e.g. SOCIAL, GAME_PUZZLE, APPLICATION. The full list is at /categories (free); it also matches genre_id on an app detail record.

Query Parameters

string

default:"US"

Play storefront (gl).

string

default:"en"

Play content language (hl).

Response

string

The category id requested.

string

The Play URL the apps were read from.

integer

Apps returned.

AppCard[]

Apps in the category — same shape as search results.

Example

curl "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/GAME_PUZZLE?country=US&lang=en" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch(
  "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/GAME_PUZZLE?" +
    new URLSearchParams({ country: "US", lang: "en" }),
  { headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.SCRAPEBADGER_API_KEY } },
);
const { apps } = await res.json();

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://scrapebadger.com/v1/google-play/categories/GAME_PUZZLE",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={"country": "US", "lang": "en"},
)
apps = res.json()["apps"]

Response

{
  "query": "GAME_PUZZLE",
  "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/GAME_PUZZLE?hl=en&gl=US",
  "result_count": 96,
  "apps": [
    {
      "app_id": "com.king.candycrushsaga",
      "title": "Candy Crush Saga",
      "developer": "King",
      "summary": "Switch and match Candies in this tasty puzzle adventure",
      "icon": "https://play-lh.googleusercontent.com/example=w240-h480-rw",
      "score": 4.6,
      "score_text": "4.6",
      "installs": "1,000,000,000+",
      "genre": "Puzzle",
      "content_rating": "Everyone",
      "price": { "price": 0.0, "currency": "USD", "price_text": "Free", "is_free": true },
      "url": "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.king.candycrushsaga"
    }
  ]
}

Errors

Status	Meaning
`404`	No apps in that category for the storefront — usually an unknown category id.
`422`	Play returned no usable data — not billed. Retry.

Google Play API

Endpoints

Browse a Category

Authorization

Path Parameters

Query Parameters

Response

Example

Errors

​Authorization

​Path Parameters

​Query Parameters

​Response

​Example

​Errors

Authorization

Path Parameters

Query Parameters

Response

Example

Errors