On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Spiderfly Studios < [email protected]> wrote:
> I've tried searching for it and no matter if it is on Google Groups or just > plain Google, 99% of the results that come up have nothing to do with the > topic. No offense, but telling someone that it is there as a matter of > fact, then why not save everyone some time and frustration by sharing a link > to the info? I already know that there is a way to do is as countless sites > are doing this, I'm just trying to find out how. > Protip: when you want some API to access some platform "X" just google for "X API". So try Googling "Android Market API" and check the very first link. > And TreKing, you can't just scrape the page. > Yes, you really can. If content exists on a webpage you can scrape it off. Obviously this is not ideal and very fragile but entirely doable. > Obviously they are pulling the info directly from the Android Market. So > it wouldn't make sense for me to pull from a site who is pulling from > another site, etc. I just want to go directly from the source. It would be > great to have that how-to clearly posted somewhere so that it is easy to > find. and implement. > It would be great - but once again, this is completely unofficial. The likelihood of any of those sites providing a nice "how to" guide that would make it brain-dead simple for anyone else to provide yet another Market mirror site (and thus increase their own competition) is pretty slim. Perhaps you can put together such a guide once you've figured it out and post back. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
