Web Scraping project for Independent Study (under Prof. Rahul Chatterjee) at UW Madison - Spring 2020, continuted into Fall 2020.
The original scraper has been broken down into components:-
- newScraper: which starts the initial scraping, it is also responsible for parsing the arguments passed to the script
- utility: responsible for reading the seed search terms
- databaseUtility: driver functions for database operations
- parserUtility: have dedicated parsing functions for support of all individual websites
The newScraper accepts the following arguments:-
| Flag | Type | Operation |
|---|---|---|
| -a | Boolean | Run for all Websites |
| -w | Accepts a string as input | Run for one website (which is specified) |
| -ws | Accepts a string as input | Run for set of websites (comma separated) |
| -s | Boolean | Returns statistics on unique application IDs grouped by website name |
| -sw | Boolean | Lists the websites supported |
Due to 100MB per-file size limitation on github, database.db has been shifted to https://drive.google.com/file/d/15SSPPk1u1OC3alDa85rofeLcFD1lOtDJ/view?usp=sharing.
Base Unique Search Terms - 1557
| Name | Link | OS | Language | Number of Queries | Issue Faced | Completed | Number of Apps Retreived |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apkcombo | https://apkcombo.com | Android | English, Arabic, Spanish & More | 0 | Blocking due to cloudflare | No | 0 |
| Apkpure Com | https://apkpure.com | Android | English | 1557 | Yes | 3470(distinct apps) | |
| APK Downloader (Apk-dl) | https://apk-dl.com | Android | English | 1557 | Yes | 4133(distinct apps) | |
| Hiapkdownload | https://www.hiapkdownload.com/ | Android | Arabic | Only Arabic Search | No | 0 | |
| Apkmonk | https://www.apkmonk.com | Android | English | Cloudflare Error | No | 0 | |
| Happymod | https://www.happymod.com | Android | English | ||||
| Apkpure Ai | https://apkpure.ai/ | Android | English | ||||
| APK Support | https://apk.support/ | Android | English | Approx 2500 | Yes | 127616 | |
| APK Turbo | https://www.apkturbo.com/ | Android | English | 0 | Blocking due to cloudflare | No | 0 |
| Android Apps APK | https://androidappsapk.co/ | Android | English | ||||
| AppPure (iPhone Apkpure) | https://iphone.apkpure.com | iOS | English | ||||
| Android APK | https://android-apk.org/ | Android | English | 0 | 1. No Website search | No | 0 |
| Qimai | https://www.qimai.cn/ | iOS & Android | Chinese | 0 | 1. Webiste is in different language | No | 0 |
| APK Follow | https://www.apkfollow.com | Android | English | 0 | 1. Captcha required, not able to access through script | No | 0 |
| APK Plz | https://apkplz.net | Android | English | 1557 | 1. No related search term | Yes | 24(distinct apps |
| APKTADA | https://apktada.com | Android | English | 1557 | 1. No related search term | Yes | 40(distinct apps) |
| APKsFULL | https://apksfull.com | Android | English | ||||
| APK.CO | https://apk.co | Android | English | 0 | 1. Search Not Working | No | 0 |
| AllFreeAPK | https://m.allfreeapk.com | Android | English | 1557 | 1. No related search term | Yes | 22471(distinct apps) |
| APK Plus | https://apk.plus | Android | English | ||||
| Droid Informer | https://droidinformer.org/ | Android | English | ||||
| APK Dom | https://apkdom.com | Android | English | 0. | 1. Website HTML change when access by python script instead of browser | No | 0 |
| Apptopia | https://apptopia.com | Android | English | 0 | 1. Not a app website | No | 0 |
| App Annie | https://www.appannie.com | Android | English | 0 | 1. Not a app website | No | 0 |
| APK Live | https://apks.live | Android | English | 0 | 1. No Website search | No | 0 |
| AppChoPC | https://appchopc.com | Android | Vietnamese | 0 | 1. No Website search | No | 0 |
| Hack-Cheat | https://hack-cheat.org | Android | English | 0 | 1. No Website search | No | 0 |
| Apkandroid_RU | https://www.apkandroid.ru | Android | Russian | 0 | 1.Website is in different language | No | 0 |
| Freeapkbaixar | https://www.freeapkbaixar.com | Android | Portuguese | 0 | 1. Website is in different language | No | 0 |
| Freeapk.id | https://www.freeapk.id | Android | Indonesian | 0 | 1.Website is in different language | No | 0 |
| Deepaso | https://www.deepaso.com | iOS | English | 0 | 1. Not a app website | No | 0 |
| APK Fab | https://apkfab.com | Android | English | 1557 | 1.No related search term | Yes | 10692(distinct apps) |
| Malavida | https://www.malavida.com | iOS & Android | English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Portuguese, Japanese & Italian | 1557 | 1. No Related Search Term | Yes | 363(distinct apps) |
| APK GK | https://apkgk.com/ | Android | English | 1557 | 1. No related search term | Yes | 5889(distinct apps) |
| APK Clean | https://apkclean.net/ | Android | English | 0 | 1. No website search | No | 0 |