Bulk-updater for a folder with apk-files from googleplay

Copy the file config_example.py or create a new file named config.py and fill out your google-account information as well as your ANDROID_ID. Your android id can be obtained as descibed in the googleplay-api project by using the Gtalk Manager on your phone. Or use the java program android-checkin.

usage: googleplayupdater [-h] [-c [CONFIG_FILE]] [-v] apk_folder_path

Fetch updates for local apks from GooglePlayStore

positional arguments:
  apk_folder_path       absolute or relative path to folder containing the
                        apks to update

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c [CONFIG_FILE], --config_file [CONFIG_FILE]
  -v, --verbose         be more verbose

• Python 2.7+ or Python 3.4+
• Protocol Buffers (for googleplay-api)
• android-sdk-build-tools (tested with version 23, for archlinux-users via AUR)

To install download/clone the repository, change into the downloaded directory and execute:

python setup.py install

googleplay-api depends on google's protobuf. Only versions greater than 3.0 have support for Python 3. Unfortunately these versions are still in alpha and must be installed manually. For Arch-linux the package python-protobuf is available in the AUR. Otherwise protobuf-3.0.0a3 can be installed directly via pip:

pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/protobuf/protobuf-3.0.0a3.tar.gz#md5=6674fa7452ebf066b767075db96a7ee0

Otherwise an exception like the following will occur:

File "[...]/googleplayupdater/googleplayupdater/gp_update.py", line 33, in <module>
    from googleplay_api.googleplay import GooglePlayAPI  # GooglePlayAPI
  File "[...]/googleplayupdater/googleplay_api/googleplay.py", line 19, in <module>
    from google.protobuf import text_format
  File "[...]/googleplayupdater/venv3/lib/python3.4/site-packages/google/protobuf/text_format.py", line 572
    except ValueError, e:

Cloned from https://github.com/NeroBurner/googleplay-api which is a fork from https://github.com/timogilvie/googleplay-api

Cloned from https://github.com/soxofaan/asynchronousfilereader

Simple thread based asynchronous file reader for Python.

Inspired by GooglePlayDownloader and its 'Search updates for local APK(s)'-button

This project is released under the AGPLv3+ licence.