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I'm crawling and scraping android market Web site.

But I cannot get count of downloads of apps from the Web site because it doesn't provide information about downloads though it provides ranking.

So, does anyone know how to get the count of downloads?

Chappy 003
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I think you can do it in 2 steps:

  1. Get list of all app ids in first step
  2. Get details for each app id through https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xyz.uvw etc. (In the details page there is "INSTALLS" which gives the range for total number of installs)
Naheed Akhtar
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  • Thank you. So, how can I get not the range but the exact number? – Chappy 003 Dec 26 '11 at 05:19
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    IMHO there is no way to get exact number, you can also refer to this link- http://www.androlib.com/appstats.aspx which has a feature called ESTIMATE which may give approximate downloads – Naheed Akhtar Dec 26 '11 at 10:59