gplaycli

Google Play Downloader via Command line, based on https://framagit.org/tuxicoman/googleplaydownloader See package Readme for python modules to install.

GPlayCli is a command line tool to search, install, update Android applications from the Google Play Store. The main goal was to be able to run this script with a cronjob, in order to automatically update an F-Droid server instance.

$ gplaycli --help
usage: gplaycli [-h] [-V] [-y] [-l FOLDER] [-s SEARCH] [-P] [-n NUMBER]
                [-d AppID [AppID ...]] [-F FILE] [-u FOLDER] [-f FOLDER]
                [-dc DEVICE_CODENAME] [-t] [-tu TOKEN_URL] [-v] [-c CONF_FILE]
                [-p] [-L] [-ic]

A Google Play Store Apk downloader and manager for command line

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         Print version number and exit
  -y, --yes             Say yes to all prompted questions
  -l FOLDER, --list FOLDER
                        List APKS in the given folder, with details
  -s SEARCH, --search SEARCH
                        Search the given string in Google Play Store
  -P, --paid            Also search for paid apps
  -n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
                        For the search option, returns the given number of
                        matching applications
  -d AppID [AppID ...], --download AppID [AppID ...]
                        Download the Apps that map given AppIDs
  -F FILE, --file FILE  Load packages to download from file, one package per
                        line
  -u FOLDER, --update FOLDER
                        Update all APKs in a given folder
  -f FOLDER, --folder FOLDER
                        Where to put the downloaded Apks, only for -d command
  -dc DEVICE_CODENAME, --device-codename DEVICE_CODENAME
                        The device codename to fake
  -t, --token           Instead of classical credentials, use the tokenize
                        version
  -tu TOKEN_URL, --token-url TOKEN_URL
                        Use the given tokendispenser URL to retrieve a token
  -v, --verbose         Be verbose
  -c CONF_FILE, --config CONF_FILE
                        Use a different config file than gplaycli.conf
  -p, --progress        Prompt a progress bar while downloading packages
  -L, --log             Enable logging of apps status. Downloaded, failed, not
                        available apps will be written in separate logging
                        files
  -ic, --install-cronjob
                        Install cronjob for regular APKs update. Use --yes to
                        automatically install to default locations

Changelog

See https://github.com/matlink/gplaycli/releases for releases and changelogs

Installation

• Best way to install it is using pip3: pip3 install gplaycli or pip3 install gplaycli --user if you are non-root
• Cleanest way is using virtualenv: virtualenv gplaycli; cd gplaycli; source bin/activate, then either pip install gplaycli or git clone https://github.com/matlink/gplaycli && pip3 install ./gplaycli/

Debian installation

Releases are available here https://github.com/matlink/gplaycli/releases/ as debian packages. If you prefer not to use debian packaging, check the following method.

Requirements

Works on GNU/Linux or Windows with pip and Python 3. First of all, ensure these packages are installed on your system :

• python3-dev package -> apt-get install python3-dev
• libffi package -> apt-get install libffi-dev
• libssl-dev -> apt-get install libssl-dev (for pypi's cryptography compilation)
• python (>=3)

Then, you need to install it with some needed libraries using either pip3 install gplaycli or python3 setup.py install after cloning it, then it will be available with gplaycli command. If you don't want to install it, only install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt and use it as it.

If you want to use your own Google credentials, simply change them in the credentials.conf file with your own settings.

If you want to generate androidID, see https://github.com/nviennot/android-checkin/ or https://github.com/Akdeniz/google-play-crawler, otherwise you could either use the given one (default) or use one of your devices ID.

Currently looking for a solution (googleplaydownloader from Tuxicoman provides a working jar).

If you plan to use it with F-Droid-server, remember that fdroidserver needs Java (more precisely the 'jar' command) to work.

Uninstall

Use pip uninstall gplaycli, and remove conf and cronjob with rm -rf /etc/gplaycli /etc/cron.daily/gplaycli. Should be clean, except python dependencies for gplaycli.