Tools for the Analysis of the Google Play Store.

The focus of this software, is the analysis of a Google Play Store snapshot from two different points of view:

• as a collection of metadata, i.e. by computing statistics on downloads, ratings, price and so on (e.g. number of downloads distribution, average apps per developer...).
• as a graph of apps (Nodes) connected by relationships (Edges) like the similarity. If the app the app B is similar to the app A, i.e. the Play Store page of the app A lists the app B between the "Similar" applications, then there is a directed edge from A to B.

The Play Store dump format is a MongoDB database created by using the dedicated Play Store crawler.

• MongoDB 3.2+
• Python 2.7
• Modules in requirements.txt (use pip to install)

pip install -r requirements.txt

For technical details and for an overview of the Play Store snapshot linked later, check out the project report (in Italian; sorry!).

Here you can find a snapshot of the Google Play Store taken in Aug/Sept 2017

To explore the collection, use the mongorestore command to import the collection in MongoDB, e.g.:

mongorestore --gzip --db mytestdb --collection playstore playstore_snapshot.bson.gz

Here you can find a list of all the application (app) packages, in no particular order (Warning: 80MB txt file)

All the images and graphs used in the project report are available here.