Windows Phone Store Appx Apps Crawler

Crawler that gathers links for .appx Apps from Windows Phone Store (to download apps, use download.py ./download.py -i [/path/to/linksfile])

To run: scrapy crawl appx -a outputfile=[/path/and/name_of_output_file]

How?

Bing search engine indexes Windows Phone Store, making it easy to find appx applications by using the following query string: site:windowsphone.com AppxManifest.xml

The crawler gets all the links resulting from the above query and downloads the application package found at that location

Dependencies

• scrapy
• wget