step by step guide tell you how to build a website like apkmirror
There are many free apk download websites such as apkmirror, today i will tell you how to build a website like apkmirror, the programming language i used is node.js, the database i used is mongodb, search engine used is elasticsearch, the web framework i use is eggjs.
The tool we need is appt, you can install it with sudo apt-get install aapt on ubuntu, the command to analysis apk file is aapt dump badging test.apk, as we need execute the command in node.js script so i use execSync to call the command, the code block is below.
The main logic is we get basic information from appt, parse the output, get apk id such as com.moonvideo.android.resso, and insert a task to get apk logo and images and brief from play.google.com, i wrote a little crawler framework, each website with one parser bind with the host, every url have a type, each type bind with a function, the play.google.com’s parser code is below.
every apk we analysis with aapt will send one request to play.google.com to get it’s name, brief, developer info, tag, images, i will use these data to show on the website.
