Regexps are not found on the play store page

[Burgov]

The plugin wouldn't work, so I decided to debug it. This is the app it's about: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.neocles.puma.ns

This plugin is trying to match a few regexps, like "itemprop="datePublished">\s*([\w\s,.]*)\s*<\/div>\s*<\/div>", but the string datePublished does not exist in the HTML of above page.

What am I doing wrong?

[SBats]

Sory for the late answer, I don't have much time to work on this plugin at the moment.
It might be linked to this issue: #20
Or maybe the Google Play store as changed its markup. Unfortunately, they don't provide an easy way to read this, we have to find it in the page markup :(

[abhayastudios]

Running into the same issue. GooglePlayHelper._parseResource returns:

{"date":null,"os":null,"version":null}

It probably has a bit of overhead, but maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to use a project that maintains scraping the play store like: https://github.com/facundoolano/google-play-scraper

@SBats what do you think? If you are ok with that I wouldn't mind having a go at it...

[SBats]

Hey! Sure that's a good idea. If someone does it better and open source, we should use their tools.
If you feel like doing a PR with that, that would be amazing!

[abhayastudios]

@SBats it turns out to be a bit more complex than I thought since I didn't realize that the plugin I mentioned depends on specific nodejs modules. I tried using nativescript-nodeify but so far no luck. I'll have another go at soon...

[yeisnier]

In case that somebody needed for Google Play.

Regex need to be updated to match the actual markup to:

• constants/google-play.ts[6]
  OS: /Requires\sAndroid<(.|\n)?>(\d{1,3}(.\d{1,3}(.\d{1,3})?)?)/gm,
  DATE: /Updated<(.|\n)?>(\w*\s\d{1,2},\s\d{4})/gm,
  VERSION: /Current\sVersion<(.|\n)*?>(\d{1,3}(.\d{1,3}(.\d{1,3})?)?)/gm,

Matching expression will be on index 2

• helpers/google-play.helper.ts[22]
  infos[key.toLowerCase()] = regEx ? regEx[2] : null

[abhayastudios]

@yeisnier @SBats looks like the whole regex approach is not relevant anymore for scraping the Play store, since they don't publish version numbers anymore. Looks like the way to go is as described in #30. I think this issue should be closed.