To be frank, your site would need to establish a REALLY strong reputation for trustworthiness before we could consider trusting it with our Market login credentials. They are too tightly coupled with customer, billing and credit card info.
But, if I needed to login in to your webpage manually every day, it wouldn't be much better than what I'm doing now with the Market page. You would just save me the step of cutting-and-pasting the numbers to a spreadsheet. Would you consider writing a desktop utility to collect the data daily automatically, so my login info could remain securely on our premises? David On Oct 31, 7:20 pm, Brad Gies <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > I'm in the process of developing a website that collects market > statistics and developer statistics, and one of the features I'm adding > is a utility to collect my own market download numbers daily so I can > put them into a spreadsheet and chart/graph them so I can easily spot > trends. > > I thought about adding this for use by any developer, but the problem > with it is that to automatically collect the actual download numbers, we > would have to store your Google login information, and I don't think > many developers would want to give that information... I could be wrong, > but that's my opinion. Maybe I should ask... How many developers would > be willing to have a website (a trustworthy website) store their login > information to be able to automatically collect the download/installed > numbers so they could collect them? > > Without the login information the only way to get the actual download > and installed numbers would be for the developer to visit a page and > manually start the download information, and I'm not sure many > developers would do that consistently enough to get good information. > > Let me know if you are interested in having this... I can add it fairly > easily... but I'd need to know exactly what would be acceptable to the > developers. > > Sincerely, > > Brad Gies > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bistro Bot - Bistro Blurbhttp://bgies.com > http://nocrappyapps.comhttp://bistroblurb.com > http://forcethetruth.comhttp://ihottonight.com > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Everything in moderation, including abstinence (paraphrased) > > Every person is born with a brain... Those who use it well are the successful > happy ones - Brad Gies > > Adversity can make or break you... It's your choice... Choose wisely - Brad > Gies > > Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can > change the world. Indeed. It is the only thing that ever has - Margaret Mead > > On 31/10/2010 3:16 AM, deg wrote: > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > In what ways have you found the numbers to be untrustworthy? > > > Are the numbers exposed via the API any different? Also, can you > > point me to the API you recommend? A quick search just now found > > several unofficial APIs, but no official support. > > > Thanks, > > David > > > On Oct 28, 5:50 pm, TreKing<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:40 AM, deg<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Is this info available anywhere on the Market site? > >> Nope. And don't trust the numbers you see there anyway. > > >>> If not, has anyone written a screen-scraping utility (or equivalent) > >>> that > >>> can harvest the data into a spreadsheet? > >> I don't know, but there a Market API you could use for yourself. > >> Or use some kind of analytics library. > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> ---------------------- > >> TreKing<http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > >> transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
