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PHP Scrape Script for Google Play Reviews

$10-30 USD

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Posted over 5 years ago

$10-30 USD

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Write a PHP script that will scrape reviews of a specific App on Google PlayStore and put it in a MySQL DB. Script should work as follows: 1. Update DB with all the reviews and details about date, reviewer etc. into the DB. 2. I should be able to run a CRON job that will update the database with new reviews since last run. 3. Script should not ban my IP address during updates. Throttling should be used within the script.
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Hi, downloading reviews from Google Play Store is very complicated. They use JavaScript and AJAX heavily to load and display reviews. To fetch content from AJAX heavy websites we have to load the website first in a browser. For such websites I use PhantomJS which is a WebKit based headless browser. Headless means that it doesn't have any user facing interface. We can use it only programmatically. I can use PHP and PhantomJS together to load content from Google Play Store in the PhantomJS browser and then deliver the resulting file to PHP for further processing. After extracting the reviews from the app page I'll store them in MySQL database. Kindly mention do you want all the reviews? Would it be feasible for you to download 5000+ reviews for a single app? About me ======== I'm a Software Developer. I have experience in building web scrapers, web crawlers, and webbots in PHP. I can build web scrapers for AJAX heavy websites using a headless browser called PhantomJS. If you would like to discuss your project with me then feel free to send me a message even when I'm offline. I usually reply within a few minutes when online and within a few hours when offline.
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Hello, I am a PHP developer and a scraping expert. I have done this before, and for the no blocking part, may i know who's app that you're scraping, if its yours, you don't have to worry if not, i can implement IP changer, but its up to the frequency of scrape which will tell how much IPs you'll need. The final price may change, and any change in the requirements will result in extension. Feel free to contact. Thanks Meeshal k
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