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I have a dataframe with the urls of all apps I want to get the reviews. I see that there is a way to do this using Python (How to perform web scraping to get all the reviews of the an app in Google Play?), but I was not able to perform it. Can I get all the reviews of the apps using R? I created a code to scroll the webpage, but there are apps with too many reviews. And I want to get the reviews of too many apps. Thus, scrolling the webpage is not a good way to get all the reviews.

Liz Andrade
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  • hi, interesting, was there an error getting the python – IronMan Sep 23 '20 at 23:59
  • Does this topic anwser your question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50987622/web-scrapping-in-r-through-google-playstore? – xwhitelight Sep 24 '20 at 01:42
  • No, this way only get 40 reviews. I used the code bellow to scroll and press the "show more" button, but there is an app with 120MM reviews. Thus, this code does not help. `#scroll down 5 times, waiting for the page to load at each time for(j in 1:5){ remDr$executeScript(paste("scroll(0,",j*10000,");")) Sys.sleep(3) } # Locate the load more button try(loadmorebutton <- remDr$findElement(using = "css selector", ".RveJvd"), silent=TRUE) try(loadmorebutton$clickElement(), silent=TRUE) # Wait for elements to load. Sys.sleep(2)` – Liz Andrade Sep 24 '20 at 13:45
  • have you tried using the google play api – TERMINATOR Jan 09 '21 at 20:46
  • I think that I only can get the reviews of my own app by using the google play api, right? – Liz Andrade Jan 10 '21 at 21:51

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