Comments on: Pulling Android Market Sales Data Programmatically

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:56:53 +0000

I second the idea of a desktop app that will download and mash up the sales data from Google Checkout. I use AppViz for sales on the iPhone app store and would love to have a tool like that for our Android sales. Right now it’s a complete pain to manually download the data and import it into excel…

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:37:30 +0000

@Polyclef: Thanks, I took a brief look earlier but I will need to spend some more time on the code.

@Alocaly: AFAIK there is no open API for the market.

By: Alocaly

Alocaly — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Hi all,

This technique is fine for getting data from google Checkout…
Can we also apply it to get data from the market page ?
So we could have some graph of the evolution of DL, and active installs ?

Hum… Looking at the code, I feel there is no open API like the checkout one available for the market…
Am I correct ??

Emmanuel / Alocaly

By: Polyclef

Polyclef — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:30:45 +0000

I’ve put the code up on Google Code:

https://code.google.com/p/checkoutcheck/

It’s pretty clunky and may not be very readable, but like I said, it works for me. If you have any questions about it, shoot me an email at polyclefsoftware@gmail.com. Hope someone finds it useful.

By: Heikki Toivonen

Heikki Toivonen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:06:40 +0000

@Polyclef: I would be very interested in seeing your code, so please put it up somewhere. I am not so interested in an Android app, but something that I can run on my desktop and get the data I need. I am sure there are more people in my situation, so I am pretty sure we could collaborate on something.

@Peter: Those csv downloads are fine, except they only go back two months. If you forgot to do that at some point during the year, you must use the notification history API to obtain the data. If Google provided the csv downloads for 18 months like they do for the notification history API, I would be ok with it. The current situation sucks.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:48:59 +0000

I just download the csv files that google checkout provides and import them into excel. then i add subtotals at each change in date and graph it. it’s not perfect but at least i can see total sales amounts per day.

By: Polyclef

Polyclef — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:47:06 +0000

Hey…I’m the author of CheckoutCheck, an app in the Android Market that fetches Google Checkout information for particular parameters (e.g. date ranges, payment status, etc.), so I’m reasonably familiar with the Checkout API. Some people aren’t crazy about my app…comments say it’s slow, doesn’t work for large date ranges, doesn’t work for particular people. But I basically just wrote it for myself to check completed transactions for individual days. I also wanted to be able to have a nice summary of how many of each particular app I sold on a particular day, something that the Google Checkout website and exported information didn’t provide. That was a pain, because I had to parse and cross-reference two different XML files from Google Checkout to get the exact report I wanted.

Anyway, if you or anyone else is interested in the code, I’m willing to share it. I may just go ahead and put it up on Google Code and see if anyone else is willing to continue to develop and improve it.