reviews-collector

About

This module gathers reviews for the specified app and stores them in a SQLite database (reviews.db) in the module's root directory. Reviews for each app are collected until we find reviews older than the age specified by daysOfReviews.

Installation

git clone git@github.com:wbio/reviews-collector.git
npm install

Configuration

All of the configuration takes place in index.js. There are only 3 properties to configure:

daysOfReviews (Integer): The number of days worth of reviews to collect (so reviews will be collected until we find a review older than today minus daysOfReviews
ios (String[]): An array of app IDs for iOS apps. The app ID can be found in the app's iTunes URL (Google ' iTunes' and you should find it). The app ID is the string of numbers directly after "id" in the URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps-real-time-navigation/id585027354?mt=8
android (String[]): An array of app IDs for Android apps. The app ID can be found in the app's Google Play URL (Google ' Google Play' and you should find it). The app ID is the string directly after "id=" in the URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps&hl=en

The object passed to Collector#collect should look something like:

{
	// The # of days worth of reviews to collect
	daysOfReviews: 2,
	// The list of iOS app IDs to collect reviews for
	ios: [
		'585027354',
	],
	// The list of Android app IDs to collect review for
	android: [
		'com.google.android.apps.maps',
	],
}

Running the script

npm start