Script to download apk file from Google Play a.k.a Android Market.

apkdl.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to download apk file from Google Play a.k.a Android Market.
# Accepts package name or Google Play URL as input.
# Files are download from apk-dl.com
# author : Arul (@arulrajnet)
#

APK_DL_URL="http://apk-dl.com/store/apps/details?id=%s"
PACKAGE_NAME=""

# Parse the user given input
function parse() {
    # TODO for parse package and google play url
    package_re="/^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*(\.[a-z0-9_]+)+[0-9a-z_]$/i"
    if [[ $1 =~ $package_re ]]; then
        echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
    fi
    url_re="*play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=*"
    PACKAGE_NAME=$1
}

# Download the apk file
function download() {
    echo -e "Downloading..."
    local ua="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.104 Safari/537.36"
    local url=`printf ${APK_DL_URL} ${PACKAGE_NAME}`
    curl "$url" -o "$PACKAGE_NAME.apk" --write-out "%{http_code}" --compressed --retry 10 --retry-max-time 0 \
        -H "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" \
        -H "Connection: keep-alive" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch" \
        -H "Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,ta;q=0.6" \
        -H "User-Agent: $ua"
}

# Validate basic requirement for this script
function validate() {
    # Commands used in this script
    local CMDS="curl"

    for i in ${CMDS}
    do
        type -P ${i} &>/dev/null  && continue  || { echo "$i command not found."; exit 1; }
    done
}

function usage() {
    echo -e "Usage: \n\t$0 com.whatsapp \n\t$0 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsapp"
    exit 1
}

# How its called
if test -z "$1"
then
    usage
fi

validate
parse $1
download ${PACKAGE_NAME}

exit 0

Hi, thanks for your scripts. I try to use your scripts to download an apk file, but got an error: connection reset by peer. Is it my network problem or the scripts?

Which apk you are trying to download.?

Hi
Its giving me error

( ! ) Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /var/www/default/public_html/sanjay/index.php on line 10

I need php script to download a file from google play store.

Dear sir,
can you please reshape this script as a Greasemonkey script (for Firefox)?
More info here
https://greasyfork.org/en

Dear Sir,
Could you please give me some advice to use this code please.
I need to adapt with my senior project.
would be my pleasure that you could help me.
I stuck for a long time.
Thank a alot

I,m sorry but the script doesn't download the apk. Only creates html file with apk extension. Can you help me to solve this please?

hi,
i need a script for making Repository site for android apps(apk). the script i am looking for is to use getting fresh data from Playstore and save into my cloud and then automaticly publish on my site.
can you help me for this script

for me this download a HTML file which AVG identifies as malware...

@Lewiscowles1986 The script is not working lately. I am not planning to fix this.

Nowadays there are other online/offline tools are available to download the apk. Please make use of it.