google-play-scraper vs Scrapy

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google-play-scraper		Scrapy
	Project
4	Mentions	180
2,220	Stars	50,954
-	Growth	0.7%
5.6	Activity	9.6
26 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

google-play-scraper

Posts with mentions or reviews of google-play-scraper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-02.

Web scraping Google Play App Info with Nodejs
2 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2022

Also, you can use a complete third-party Google Play Store App scraping solution google-play-scraper. Third-party solutions are usually used to break the quota limit.
See all new apps in Play Store
1 project | /r/androidapps | 21 Jul 2022

You need a scraper, like https://github.com/facundoolano/google-play-scraper
Where can I find more SaaS companies?
1 project | /r/SaaS | 10 Feb 2022

Hacker News is a good board to troll, they announce there a lot, also places like techcrunch and producthunt have saas companies featured. If you want a volume solution, https://github.com/facundoolano/google-play-scraper is good for scraping the play store, from which you can just search for what you want. I accumulated a database of 200K apps with that in a week.
I made a Tampermonkey script that shows app total installs and release date on Google Play.
1 project | /r/androiddev | 17 Jan 2022

Scrapy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Scrapy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

Scrapy: A Fast and Powerful Scraping and Web Crawling Framework
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Feb 2024
Seven Python Projects to Elevate Your Coding Skills
3 projects | dev.to | 15 Feb 2024

BeautifulSoup4 Scrapy
What is SERP? Meaning, Use Cases and Approaches
3 projects | dev.to | 11 Dec 2023

While there is no specific library for SERP, there are some web scraping libraries that can do the Google Search Page Ranking. One of them which is quite famous is Scrapy - It is a fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It offers rich developer community support and has been used by more than 50+ projects.
Creating an advanced search engine with PostgreSQL
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jul 2023

If you're looking for a turn-key solution, I'd have to dig a little. I generally write a scraper in python that dumps into a database or flat file (depending on number of records I'm hunting).
Scraping is a separate subject, but once you write one you can generally reuse relevant portions for many others. If you can get adept at a scraping framework like Scrapy you can do it fairly quickly, but there aren't many tools that work out of the box for every site you'll encounter.
Once you've written the spider, it's generally able to be rerun for updates unless the site code is dramatically altered. It really comes down to how brittle the spider is coded (i.e. hunting for specific heading sizes or fonts or something) instead of grabbing the underlying JSON/XHR that doesn't usually change frequently.
1. https://scrapy.org
Turning webpages into pdf
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 6 Jul 2023
Implementing case sensitive headers in Scrapy (not through `_caseMappings`)
4 projects | /r/scrapy | 3 Jul 2023

Scrapy capitalizes headers for request
Dicas para projetos usando web scraping
1 project | /r/brdev | 27 Jun 2023
Best tools to use for web scraping ??
1 project | /r/learnpython | 25 Jun 2023

Scrapy is a web scraping toolkit
What do .NET devs use for web scraping these days?
6 projects | /r/dotnet | 13 Jun 2023

I know this might not be a good answer, as it's not .NET, but we use https://scrapy.org/ (Python).
I'm using python to scrape web page content and extract keywords, how can I make it faster to process?
1 project | /r/datascience | 10 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing google-play-scraper and Scrapy you can also consider the following projects:

node-crawler - Web Crawler/Spider for NodeJS + server-side jQuery ;-)

requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™

itchio-godot-scraper - A scraper for Godot games hosted on https://itch.io.

pyspider - A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.

JSSoup - JavaScript + BeautifulSoup = JSSoup

colly - Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang

google - Auto-generated Google APIs for Go.

MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.

github - Go library for accessing the GitHub v3 API

playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.

freeDictionaryAPI - There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted one for my friend, so I created one.

undetected-chromedriver - Custom Selenium Chromedriver | Zero-Config | Passes ALL bot mitigation systems (like Distil / Imperva/ Datadadome / CloudFlare IUAM)