Google Play Downloader via Command line, based on https://codingteam.net/project/googleplaydownloader See package Readme for python modules to install.
GPlayCli is a command line tool to search, install, update Android applications from the Google Play Store. The main goal was to be able to run this script with a cronjob, in order to automatically update an F-Droid server instance.
$ ./gplaycli.py
usage: gplaycli.py [-h] [-y] [-s SEARCH] [-n NUMBER] [-d AppID [AppID ...]]
[-u FOLDER] [-f FOLDER] [-v] [-c CONF_FILE] [-p]
A Google Play Store Apk downloader and manager for command line
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-y, --yes Say yes to all prompted questions
-s SEARCH, --search SEARCH
Search the given string in Google Play Store
-n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
For the search option, returns the given number of
matching applications
-d AppID [AppID ...], --download AppID [AppID ...]
Download the Apps that map given AppIDs
-u FOLDER, --update FOLDER
Update all APKs in a given folder
-f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
Where to put the downloaded Apks, only for -d command
-v, --verbose Be verbose
-c CONF_FILE, --config CONF_FILE
Use a different config file than credentials.conf
-p, --progress Prompt a progress bar while downloading packages
Keep in mind that GPlayCli is not able to download apps that are not gratis, costless.
Works on GNU/Linux or Windows with pip and Python 2.7. First of all, ensure these packages are installed on your system :
- python-dev package ->
apt-get install python-dev - libffi package ->
apt-get install libffi-dev - python (>=2.7)
Then, you need to install it with some needed libraries using python setup.py install and it will be available with gplaycli command. If you don't want to install it, just install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt
If you want to use your own Google credentials, simply change them in the credentials.conf file with your own settings.
If you want to generate androidID, see https://github.com/nviennot/android-checkin/ or https://github.com/Akdeniz/google-play-crawler, otherwise you could either use the given one (default) or use one of your devices ID.