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How to export the list of apps from Google Play (Store)

Sun, 2013.03.24 - 02:35 — müzso
It's quite simple. When you visit the "My Android Apps" page in the Play Store, one of the loaded URLs (https://play.google.com/xhr/myappslibrary?device=somealphanumericstring) contains the HTML code of the "Apps installed on ..." and "Other apps in my library" sections. It's a JSON formatted record and has an "installedAppsHtml" and a "notInstalledAppsHtml" element with the respective HTML codes.

In the installed apps section an app's HTML code looks like this:
<div class="goog-inline-block carousel-cell" id="com.google.android.apps.currents" data-docid="com.google.android.apps.currents">
        <div class="snippet snippet-medium snippet-app-lib">
                <div class="thumbnail-wrapper-container goog-inline-block">
                        <div class="thumbnail-wrapper goog-inline-block">
                                <a href="/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents" class="thumbnail" data-a="2" data-c="1">
                                        <img src="https://lh3.ggpht.com/HNFMQvUB5dM208mI3b_xSMK9FMp4FP-HzrtGI4acXZGJ87wTUK3kow7yS4PzefZott0=w78" alt="Google Currents" />
                                </a>
                        </div>
                </div>
                <div class="details goog-inline-block">
                        <div class="title-wrapper">
                                <a class="title" title="Google Currents" data-a="1" data-c="1" href="/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents">Google Currents</a>
                        </div><span class="attribution"><div class="goog-inline-block dev-has-badge-attribution"><a class="goog-inline-block" href="/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Inc.">Google Inc.</a></div></span>
                        <div class="buttons-wrapper">
                                <div class="buy-wrapper update-wrapper goog-inline-block">
                                        <div class="buy-border">
                                                <a class="update-link buy-button goog-inline-block" href="javascript:void(0)" data-docAttribution="Google Inc." data-docConsumptionUri="" data-docId="com.google.android.apps.currents" data-docTitle="Google Currents" data-docIconUrl="https://lh3.ggpht.com/HNFMQvUB5dM208mI3b_xSMK9FMp4FP-HzrtGI4acXZGJ87wTUK3kow7yS4PzefZott0=w65"
                                                data-docType="1" data-parentDocId="" data-docSubIsTrial="false"><span class="buy-button-price">Update</span>
                                                </a>
                                        </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="goog-inline-block disabled-wrapper installed-wrapper" style="display:none;">
                                        <div class="buy-wrapper goog-inline-block">
                                                <div class="buy-border">
                                                        <div class="buy-button goog-inline-block"><span class="buy-button-price">Installed</span>
                                                        </div>
                                                </div>
                                        </div>
                                </div>
                                <div class="goog-inline-block disabled-wrapper just-removed-wrapper">
                                        <div class="buy-wrapper goog-inline-block">
                                                <div class="buy-border">
                                                        <div class="buy-button goog-inline-block"><span class="buy-button-price">Removed</span>
                                                        </div>
                                                </div>
                                        </div>
                                </div>
                        </div>
                </div>
        </div>
</div>

From the title line you can get both the package name and the app label:
<a class="title" title="Google Currents" data-a="1" data-c="1" href="/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents">Google Currents</a>