This code is a minimal fork of NoMore201/googleplay-api. The main functionality we maintain is the ability to download apps.
Check test.py for a simple example.
An important note about login function:
def login(self, email=None, password=None, gsfId=None, authSubToken=None)
for first time logins, you should only provide email and password. The module will take care of initalizing the api,upload device information to the google account you supplied, and retrieving a Google Service Framework ID (which, from now on, will be the android ID of a device).
For the next logins you should save the gsfId and the authSubToken, and provide them as parameters to the login function. If you login again with email and password only, this is the equivalent of re-initalizing your android device with a google account.
For some documentation about the google play API check out the relative folder.
If you haven't already, set up a virtual environment in the top-level of the project:
# Create the virtual environment
python3 -m venv venv
# Activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate
# Install the project's dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
The dependencies installed for development include those described in setup.py as well as pytest, which is used to run the automated test suite.
To run pytest, first export your account EMAIL and PASSWORD, and also a hex-encoded GSFID, as environment variables. Next, run pytest.
export EMAIL='XXX'
export PASSWORD='XXX'
export GSFID='XXX'
python -m pytest -v
As Google updates the Google Play Store API, it might be necessary to periodically update the protobuf definition. First, update googleplay.proto from the upstream repo, NoMore201/googleplay-api. Next, download a recent version of the protobuf compiler, protoc. Finally, use the compiler to update gpapi/googleplay_pb2.py:
protoc --proto_path . --python_out gpapi googleplay.proto