Google Play Downloader via Command line, based on https://codingteam.net/project/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.py 
usage: gplaycli.py [-h] [-y] [-s SEARCH] [-n NUMBER] [-d AppID [AppID ...]]
                [-u FOLDER] [-f FOLDER] [-v] [-c CONF_FILE] [-p]

	A Google Play Store Apk downloader and manager for command line

	optional arguments:
	  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
	  -y, --yes             Say yes to all prompted questions
	  -s SEARCH, --search SEARCH
	                        Search the given string in Google Play Store
	  -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
	  -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
	  -v, --verbose         Be verbose
	  -c CONF_FILE, --config CONF_FILE
	                        Use a different config file than credentials.conf
	  -p, --progress        Prompt a progress bar while downloading packages
	  -ic, --install-cronjob
            		        Interactively install cronjob for regular APKs update

Keep in mind that GPlayCli is not able to download apps that are not gratis, costless.

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.

Works on GNU/Linux or Windows with pip and Python 2.7. First of all, ensure these packages are installed on your system :

• python-dev package -> apt-get install python-dev
• libffi package -> apt-get install libffi-dev
• python (>=2.7)

Then, you need to install it with some needed libraries using either pip install GPlayCli or python setup.py install, then it will be available with gplaycli command. If you don't want to install it, just install requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt

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

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