I think this being the android *developer* forum might have made them believe you were an actual developer. Or perhaps the fact you said you made an app might have thrown them off. Anyway, scraping is not stealing. That's how google works.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Spiderfly Studios < spiderflystud...@gmail.com> wrote: > well did you ever consider that I and others may not know to script it? my > scripting skills are limited. I know HTML and PHP and just a lil > javascript. when it comes to apps, I design them, I don't build them. > > also, scraping is stealing. as everyone else has stated, since there is no > official way of doing this through Google, then all of the sites that show > the star ratings are basically just taking it from the market feed, etc. > i'm not going to do that. > > I understand the process/steps you laid out and I'm sure I could do it as I > have done so with userscripts/javascripts before...but...as you state in > step four, it would require me to manually update the info. That defeats > the purpose altogether. For it to be functional, it would have to be up to > date upon page load. If I have to manually update it myself, then I might > as well just make it easy on myself and just make it an image graphic that I > update manually periodically. > > You would think that google would have already done this a long time ago. > Like a "Promote Your App" section where you can get a cut and paste piece > of custom code that would only read that info for only your apps, etc. > IMHO, this is something that should have been there from the beginning. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- ~ Jeremiah:9:23-24 Android 2D MMORPG: http://solrpg.com/, http://www.youtube.com/user/revoltingx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
