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AppStoreCat

Publisher Discovery

Search publishers, view their app catalogs, and bulk import all of their apps.

Publisher Discovery

Overview

Section titled “Overview”

AppStoreCat tracks publishers (developers) and their app catalogs. You can search publishers, view all of their apps, and import entire catalogs at once.

How It Works

Section titled “How It Works”

Publishers are created automatically when apps are synced — publisher data comes from the app’s identity response. Publishers can also be discovered via search.

Features

Section titled “Features”
Section titled “Publisher Search”

Search publishers by name across both stores. Results come directly from the scraper microservices.

Publisher App Catalog

Section titled “Publisher App Catalog”

View every app published by a given publisher. This pulls the full developer app list from the store.

Bulk Import

Section titled “Bulk Import”

Import every app of a publisher into your database with a single action. Each imported app is discovered with an on_import source tag and queued for background sync.

API

Section titled “API”

Search Publishers

Section titled “Search Publishers”
GET /api/v1/publishers/search?term=google&platform=android&country_code=US

List Publishers

Section titled “List Publishers”
GET /api/v1/publishers

Returns publishers from your tracked apps.

Publisher Details

Section titled “Publisher Details”
GET /api/v1/publishers/{platform}/{externalId}

Returns 404 for publishers that are not in the database.

Publisher’s Store Apps

Section titled “Publisher’s Store Apps”
GET /api/v1/publishers/{platform}/{externalId}/store-apps

Pulls every app from the store (live scraper call). Returns 404 if the publisher is not in the DB.

Import All Publisher Apps

Section titled “Import All Publisher Apps”
POST /api/v1/publishers/{platform}/{externalId}/import

Each item in external_ids[*] is validated individually; an invalid ID rejects the entire request with 422.

UI

Section titled “UI”
  • Discovery > Publishers — search publishers across stores
  • Publishers (sidebar) — view publishers from your tracked apps
  • Publisher detail page — publisher info and app catalog with an import button

Technical Details

Section titled “Technical Details”
  • Model: Publisher
  • Table: publishers
  • Unique constraint: (platform, external_id)
  • Controller: PublisherController
  • Connector methods: fetchDeveloperApps(), fetchSearch()
  • Note: Android publisher external_id values may contain URL-encoded characters (spaces, plus signs)