Finding Apps by Country of Origin - Google Play Store

Question

I am working on a project and I need to crawl the app-store and find apps that are developed in a specific country.

There is a 42matters.com API that has an option for 'publisher_geo_context' but I am not sure how accurate is that, and more importantly, it does not have the countries I need to search for.

Using this and other APIs (or even manually on Play Store), one does find the name of the publisher, and the website etc, but cannot find which country the developer is from. (Without using some other info, such as going to their facebook page and figuring it out, etc.) The 'Physical address' is not reliable since it is only required for apps that have in-app purchases or are paid AFAIK.

How can I find which country an app publisher/developer is from? Is there a way to easily generate a list of apps?

I cannot rely on domain names of publisher's websites e.g. I cannot pull a list of apps for developers with websites ending in a '.it' for apps from Italy, for example.

Solution

@DSM I have had a similar situation, then I came across www.fnd.io

I am not sure about Google PlayStore but it is an alternate to Apple Store. It lets you view apps from any specific country by click the flag icon in the top-left of the navigation. You can enter the name of the country and it will list the apps from that specific country.

Good luck, Martin