Android Apps Crawler

Overview

Android Apps Crawler is an extensible crawler for downloading Android applications in the third-party markets. It can crawl the download url addresses of applications and automatically download applications into repository.

Requirements

• Python 2.6 or up
• Scrapy 0.22 or up: http://scrapy.org (didn't have a full test in lower version.)
• Works on Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, BSD
• Currently, downloader cannot work on Windows.
• For Ubuntu users, "Don't use the python-scrapy package provided by Ubuntu, they are typically too old and slow to catch up with latest Scrapy. Instead, use the official Ubuntu Packages."

Usage

• Set the third-party markets you want to crawl in settings.py
• Set the proxy if you have
• Start crawler:

./crawl.sh <market name>

• Start downloader:

./downloader.py <database file path> <output directory>

Settings

You can set proxy, user-agen, database name, etc in crawler/android_apps_crawler/settings.py file.

Supported Third-party Markets (market names used in crawl.sh)

• AppChina: http://www.appchina.com (appchina.com)
• Hiapk: http://apk.hiapk.com (hiapk.com)
• Anzhi: http://www.anzhi.com (anzhi.com)
• android.d.cn: http://android.d.cn (android.d.cn)
• mumayi: http://www.mumayi.com (mumayi.com)
• gfan: http://apk.gfan.com (gfan.com)
• nduoa: http://www.nduoa.com (nduoa.com)
• 3gyu: http://www.3gyu.com (3gyu.com)
• angeeks: http://apk.angeeks.com (angeeks.com)
• appfun: http://www.appfun.cn (appfun.cn)
• jimi168: http://www.jimi168.com (jimi168.com)
• Keep adding...

More Android Markets

See: https://github.com/mssun/android-markets-list

TODO

• Windows support for downloader.
• Crawl apps from shared cloud storage link (e.g, pan.baidu.com, dbank.com).