Android market sans device

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I don't have an Android device. Is there any way to see the Google Android Market - on the emulator, on the Web, in a specialized client (a la iTunes)?

Overlaps with http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1308346/how-to-fetch-android-market-data-when-there-is-no-api — Yann Ramin, Jul 09 '10 at 21:00

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '11 at 15:47

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There is now a web interface: https://market.android.com/

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 09 '10 at 21:01

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There are third party websites available which have reversed the market protocols and scraped data from them. Most prominently, there is http://www.appbrain.com/. Note that AppBrain does do "shovelware" filtering, so not all applications are visible.

There is a third party API which has figured out how to interact with the market and can query data for you: http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/

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Thanks. Any idea how exactly do they filter? – Seva Alekseyev Jul 09 '10 at 21:37
Using that Android Market API has a big problem: it looks like if you use it too much, you get blocked. That's what seems to have happened to me, at least. – mcv Dec 08 '11 at 00:38

Android market sans device

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