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Question

I'm trying to develop a Play Store reviews scraper in PHP and I need to make a POST request to this URL https://play.google.com/store/getreviews, and I saw the parameter post with firebug.

I am using Goutte library and here is my code:

require_once 'goutte.phar';
use Goutte\Client;    

$client = new Client();

$params = Array(
    "id"      => "com.trello",
    "pageNum" => 2         ,
    "reviewSortOrder" => 2 ,
    "reviewType"   => 0,
    "xhr" => 1
);

$crawler = $client->request('POST' , 'https://play.google.com/store/getreviews', $params);

The problem is that the request returns nothing. Is there anyone who already faced this problem and solved it?

Answer 1

I don't think this is possible. Google Play changed their review interface last year. They now have a "token" parameter which is missing here. I have worked before to try and work out what seeds this (see Google play review scraping changes) but I can't figure it out. After a number of attempts to hit that webservice with an incorrect request (presumably without the token) Google Play starts blocking your IP, that's why you'll be getting nothing back after a while (and won't be able to open Google Play in your browser either). If you find a solution, let me know!