I know that this question has beeing asked before… but somehow all the answers are incomplete, not applyable or (mostly) outdated.
So, I'm asking now, in 2018:
Is there a way to access app's details, knowing its ID (e.g. com.companyName.appName), on the Play Store, the largest mobile Marketplace?
Is there an official API?
Browsing the GoogleApis, I didn't find any.
Is there a way to obtain theese data in another way (e.g. some nuget package)?
Or do we still need to analyze the app's HTML web page, searching for the correct nodes?
I need to access this data using C#.
Best regards.
There is no official API for getting app info from playstore, the only way is to scrape the website which is not legal but a lot of websites are doing it so i guess google is cool about it
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I've been looking around for a way to get someone's full name (as displayed on their facebook account) by following a link.
For instance, if you were to type https://www.facebook.com/zuck in your browser, everyone would be able to see that his name is Mark Zuckerberg. I want to get this information from a C# application, based on a direct URL.
As far as I've understood by reading around, scraping is not allowed on facebook, so that's not an option. Another thing I've looked into is Facebooks Graph API, however it seems that it's not possible to get someone elses name using that api, you can only get your own name using your own access token. I can't really seem to understand whether or not this is possible/legal to even do this. Does anyone have any insight on this?
I've been trying to see all day if it's possible to write a web app in C#/asp.net that uses the google search engine. I've been googling about it all day. I don't want the custom search api because I'm not looking to have a search engine search through a site. I want to have my web app pass input to the basic google web search that search the entire net not a particular site so I can then parse through the first page of the search results. I put that in bold because it seems like the custom search api is for searching a particular site (my own site) which is not what I want to do and yet the only thing I could find. (well for the most part at least) The closest answer I found to my question is this https://stackoverflow.com/a/4082976/5607333 Which might do the trick for me but I don't know how to do that. How do I send search input to google search and get results using html? (or in my case asp.net) If you think it's the answer to my question can you please post an example of how it's done? I say "think" because I'm not sure it's the answer to what I'm asking.
I hope this question isn't considered a dupe to the question I linked to as I have been way more specific than it.
Also if this task isn't possible in C#/asp.net but possible in another language can someone please post an example of how it's done in that language or a link to it?
Update: I figured out what an easy solution is to this it hit while I was looking at another question similar to my problem. The solution is to edit the url and then i assume you could just concatenate it in C# with the + sign.
Update: 2 Even though I figured what I specifically was having trouble with at the moment of writing this question I still doesn't why I can't find a google equivalent of this https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251020.aspx that's not depreciated. I read an answer to another question on here where someone said it's because that's how they make their money off the ad results but if that's true it still surprises me.
Look this question:
Adding Google's standard search (not custom) to my website
you can use your own XML parser to customize the display for your search users.
with an http request like this:
GET /search?q=bill+material&output=xml&client=test&site=operations
But it has a limitation on number of requests per day, 500 or 1000 I guess
My apologies if this has already been requested/answered before, but I'm having a hard time trying to find information on the web about this. I've been tasked to find a way to directly update the content of a Google Sites page (Such as a text box or image) using the API.
I've been looking about the web for examples of doing this using C#, and have not found much to go by. I have some experience with writing/calling REST and SOAP APIs, but I can't seem to work out what Google uses for its API.
I'm struggling as to how I approach this, as the few examples I have found don't really walk through the code, so they leave me little to understand in order to manipulate it to what I want to achieve. One site I did find was Sites API Demo
Does anybody have any examples, or able to provide a simple example of updating content on a Google Site?
I appreciate any help you can give.
Mark
I realise this is an old question, but I have successfully updated the content of a google sites page using the library provided here, and following the example in the wiki.
I compiled the source as a .dll and added it as a reference to my project.
Please help. I am looking for a way to upload a file to Google Drive with my app. The Google Account in question will be a specific one, i.e. not the client's account, a 'Service' account. I've tried to Google it, but I can't find anything that seems to do what I want, And the API reference I probably don't understand. I have been thrown in the deep end for a project. Any source or links to help Please! I am not asking anyone to write my source, but if it exists, it would be nice.
Note: This is my last hope. I don't ask a question unless there is nooooo other way.
(I am using Windows Forms)
Thanks
Jacques
EDIT: It is always signing in to MY drive, whether I am using it or you are using it. I have also posted this question to CodeProject to harness maximum brain power.
PermaLink: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/652006/Upload-from-Csharp-to-GDrive
This page tells you what you need to know about authorizing a service account https://developers.google.com/drive/service-accounts
This page shows you the C# required to upload a file, once you have been authorized https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files/insert
Treat the authorization and the uploading as two separate problems and you'll find life much easier. The end result of the authorization procedure is an access token. Give that access token the insert API and you're all set.
I'm working on an xbl stat grabber. I have a problem I dont understand how to get the "gamer card"
Heres an example : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HA-uz_v6A0&feature=related
I already have the avatar but I don't get how you can grab the stats and recent games...
You need access to the Xbox Live API, I think you have to apply to Microsoft to get on their 'Community Developer' programme, although it's a bit hazy on the site as to whether they are accepting applications or not.
One kind fellow (who I think is a Microsoft employee) saw that this was a terrible oversight from his employers decided to offer as web service that plugged into the Xbox Live network so you can pull statistics down, you can find info about it and a website here: -
http://duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data
It's very comprehensive and should give you all the data you need (Gamerscore, current status, last game played etc)
EDIT: Extra stuff that might help
I'm not too familiar with C# but the process of using the service would be to do the following in your application: -
Construct your URL with a/your gamertag as the argument
Use some URL/Networking API (C#/.NET must have something like this somewhere) to load the URL and retrieve the contents. This should return you a big string containing a bunch of XML
Parse the XML into your application using some sort of XML parsing API (again, I'd imagine C#/.NET has these things built into the framework)
From the looks of the program, the gamercard info looks as if it is just an embedding based upon the gamer tag. You can find info on embedding your Xbox Live gamercard here.
The video author said the Halo stat information is coming courtesy of a site called HaloCharts.com. I don't know if he is embedding the information, perhaps reading an RSS feed, or if he is extracting data from the HTML.