Android – How to retrieve stats data?

Set up a Google Cloud service account

https://console.cloud.google.com

• Create a new project if you don’t have one

• Create a service account

• Create a new key for this service account

• Assign this role to download stats csv (App Download number, Install Events number, etc…)

• Enable necessary APIs

Add service account to Play console

https://play.google.com/console

• Add service account email address to Play Console

• Select this permission if you want to download stats csv (App Download number Install events, …)

Create a script to fetch Play console data

Troubleshooting

• If you want to specify a specific app in Play Console, select a specific app as follows. This is to retrieve app details, release details.
  However, you still need the above “View app information and download bulk reports (read only)” to download csv

• If you get the error “Insufficient permission”, review the scopes in your code.
  • ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only’ is a must-have to download csv stats files
  • ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher‘ needs to have API “Google Play Android Developer API” enabled
  • ‘https://www.googleapis.com/auth/playdeveloperreporting‘ needs to have API “Google Play Developer Reporting API” enabled

    const auth = new google.auth.GoogleAuth({
      credentials: keys,
      scopes: [
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher',
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/playdeveloperreporting',
        'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only'
      ],
    });

• or permission in service account – should not need though!

• or enable these APIs – should not need these though