feat(market-research): add AppBrain Play-charts scraper

NOTE: AppBrain returns a Cloudflare JS challenge (HTTP 403) for
automated requests; live fetch degrades gracefully to an error (the
skill falls back to Apple RSS + web search). Offline test passes
against synthetic fixture — that is the test gate per the brief.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Fetch an AppBrain Play-store top-chart into a normalized JSON list.
Google Play has no public chart feed and renders via obfuscated batchexecute
JS. AppBrain (appbrain.com) publishes server-rendered HTML top-chart pages with
REAL Android package names. This scrapes those rows. Stdlib-only, no pip.
Unlike Apple's RSS (iOS bundle ids), entries here carry Android packages usable
directly for a clone-app handoff.
"""
import sys, json, re, argparse, urllib.request, ssl, subprocess, shutil
CHARTS = {
"popular": "https://www.appbrain.com/apps/popular/",
"top-grossing": "https://www.appbrain.com/apps/highest-grossing/",
"top-new": "https://www.appbrain.com/apps/new/",
}
UA = "Mozilla/5.0"
def _http_get(url):
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": UA})
try:
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as r:
return r.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
except urllib.error.URLError as e:
if not isinstance(e.reason, ssl.SSLError):
raise
if not shutil.which("curl"):
raise
out = subprocess.run(["curl", "-sL", "--fail", "-A", UA, url],
capture_output=True, timeout=60)
if out.returncode != 0:
raise
return out.stdout.decode("utf-8", "replace")
# One app row: a link to /app/<slug>/<package> followed (within the same row
# block) by developer / category / rating / installs spans.
ROW = re.compile(
r'href="/app/[^"/]+/(?P<package>[\w.]+)"[^>]*>(?P<name>[^<]+)</a>'
r'(?P<rest>.*?)(?=href="/app/|</div>\s*</div>|$)', re.DOTALL)
DEV = re.compile(r'class="developer"[^>]*>([^<]+)<')
CAT = re.compile(r'class="category"[^>]*>([^<]+)<')
RAT = re.compile(r'class="rating"[^>]*>\s*([\d.]+)\s*<')
INST = re.compile(r'class="installs"[^>]*>\s*([\d,]+\+)\s*<')
def _first(rx, text):
m = rx.search(text)
return m.group(1).strip() if m else None
def parse(html, chart, region, limit):
entries = []
for i, m in enumerate(ROW.finditer(html), start=1):
if i > limit:
break
rest = m.group("rest")
rating = _first(RAT, rest)
entries.append({
"rank": i,
"name": m.group("name").strip(),
"developer": _first(DEV, rest),
"category": _first(CAT, rest),
"package": m.group("package"),
"rating": float(rating) if rating else None,
"installs": _first(INST, rest),
})
return {"source": "appbrain", "chart": chart, "region": region,
"count": len(entries), "entries": entries}
def main():
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("chart", choices=sorted(CHARTS))
ap.add_argument("--region", default="us")
ap.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=25)
ap.add_argument("--html-file")
args = ap.parse_args()
if args.html_file:
with open(args.html_file, encoding="utf-8") as f:
html = f.read()
else:
try:
html = _http_get(CHARTS[args.chart])
except Exception as e:
print(f"ERROR: failed to fetch AppBrain chart: {e}", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
print(json.dumps(parse(html, args.chart, args.region, args.limit), indent=2))
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>
<div class="app-list">
<div class="app">
<a class="app-icon-name" href="/app/habit-tracker/com.example.habit">Habit Tracker</a>
<span class="developer">Focus Labs</span>
<span class="category">Productivity</span>
<span class="rating">4.6</span>
<span class="installs">5,000,000+</span>
</div>
<div class="app">
<a class="app-icon-name" href="/app/budget-buddy/com.example.budget">Budget Buddy</a>
<span class="developer">Money Inc</span>
<span class="category">Finance</span>
<span class="rating">4.2</span>
<span class="installs">1,000,000+</span>
</div>
</div>
</body></html>

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import json, subprocess, sys, os
HERE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
SCRIPT = os.path.join(HERE, "..", "skills", "market-research", "scripts", "fetch-play-charts.py")
FIXTURE = os.path.join(HERE, "fixtures", "appbrain-popular.html")
def run():
out = subprocess.check_output(
[sys.executable, SCRIPT, "popular", "--region", "us", "--html-file", FIXTURE])
return json.loads(out)
def main():
d = run()
fails = []
def check(name, cond):
print(f"{'PASS' if cond else 'FAIL'}: {name}")
if not cond: fails.append(name)
check("source", d["source"] == "appbrain")
check("chart", d["chart"] == "popular")
check("count", d["count"] == 2)
e0 = d["entries"][0]
check("rank 1", e0["rank"] == 1)
check("name", e0["name"] == "Habit Tracker")
check("package", e0["package"] == "com.example.habit")
check("developer", e0["developer"] == "Focus Labs")
check("category", e0["category"] == "Productivity")
check("rating", e0["rating"] == 4.6)
check("installs", e0["installs"] == "5,000,000+")
for k in ["rank", "name", "package", "developer", "category", "rating", "installs"]:
check(f"key present: {k}", k in e0)
check("second package", d["entries"][1]["package"] == "com.example.budget")
sys.exit(1 if fails else 0)
main()