Well.. at least you understand the problem of creating something to do it :)
I would like to do it, but I just haven't come up with a way to do it
that would be acceptable to enough developers to make it worthwhile, so
for now, I use it only for myself.
I have looked into OAuth which means you could login to our website
using your Google credentials, and the website just gets a token rather
than the actual login info, but that has the same problem that the dev
would have to login consistently because the token expires.AND.. the
desktop app would again have the same problem... unless it runs as a
service (on Windows) or kron you would still need to remember to run it
consistently.
Would I consider writing a desktop app for it.... SURE!... but that's
about where the good news stops. I actually already do have plans for a
desktop app and when I write it I would add something to pull your
market stats.... but it's not even on my Top 10 list of things I need to
do, and with my current workload... it's not even a "by the end of year"
possibility. If anyone comes up with a way of doing it that is useful,
easy to use, and doesn't require days of programming I'd be glad to do it.
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 01/11/2010 1:50 AM, deg wrote:
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
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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.
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