Agent skill · marketing growth · mvanhorn
pp-google-play
Every public Google Play surface in one Go binary Trigger phrases: `top grossing games on google play`, `google play app details for`, `track this app's rank over time`, `what changed on this play store listing`, `reviews for this android app`, `use google-play`, `run google-play`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a powerful CLI tool for extracting structured Google Play Store data, enabling unique insights not available through standard APIs.
What it needs
Requires google-play-pp-cli installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Google Play — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the google-play-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: google-play-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Pull app details, top charts, search, reviews, similar apps, developer portfolios, permissions, and data safety from the public Play Store with no API key. Then go further than any existing scraper: snapshot charts and listings into a local database so 'movers', 'rank-history', 'keyword-history', and 'watch-listing' can answer week-over-week questions Google never exposes and commercial tools paywall. When to Use This CLI Use this CLI when you need structured, scriptable Google Play Store data without an API key: profiling an app and its competitive set, tracking chart and keyword rank over time, detecting listing changes, or mining reviews. It is built for mobile game and app market intelligence, ASO research, and AI agents that need clean JSON and a typed rate-limit signal. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use this CLI to manage your own published apps (releases, store listings, replying to reviews) — that needs the Google Play Developer API and a service-account key, not the public store. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/google-play