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Update index.js - app search and app reviews functions
Revised app search function:
- The original Google Play Scraper was limited to scraping only the first page of search results (30 apps), restricting data gathering capabilities.
- To overcome this limitation, the scraper was modified to scrape multiple pages of search results, enabling data collection on a larger number of apps.
- Recursion was implemented to find related apps to those already gathered, optimizing the search process and expanding the dataset.
- The modified scraper maps apps by ID and removes duplicates, streamlining the data collection process.
- These enhancements allow for the collection of a greater amount of data, resulting in more valuable insights
Revised app reviews function:
- Implemented pagination to overcome limitations in the Google Play Scraper's reviews function.
- Pagination enables retrieving a larger sample size of reviews regardless of output size, addressing the previous limitations.
- The solution improves the accuracy and usefulness of the data obtained from the Google Play Scraper.
- It provides a more comprehensive picture of the mobile app market by accessing a greater number of reviews.
Hello @facundoolano , I wanted to follow up on this.
Hey @facundoolano ,
It's me @JAVAB3ANS - I wanted to follow up on this and hear your thoughts.
I've revised the app search and app reviews functions to overcome Google Play Store's previous limitations in scraping results: search results and reviews respectively.