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get_appstore_reviews

get_appstore_reviews(url)

Description

GET Apple App Store Reviews of an app given its url

Usage

Call or Deploy get_appstore_reviews ?
Call get_appstore_reviews directly

The easiest way to use bigfunctions

  • get_appstore_reviews function is deployed in 39 public datasets for all of the 39 BigQuery regions.
  • It can be called by anyone. Just copy / paste examples below in your BigQuery console. It just works!
  • (You need to use the dataset in the same region as your datasets otherwise you may have a function not found error)

Public BigFunctions Datasets

Region Dataset
eu bigfunctions.eu
us bigfunctions.us
europe-west1 bigfunctions.europe_west1
asia-east1 bigfunctions.asia_east1
... ...
Deploy get_appstore_reviews in your project

Why deploy?

  • You may prefer to deploy get_appstore_reviews in your own project to build and manage your own catalog of functions.
  • This is particularly useful if you want to create private functions (for example calling your internal APIs).
  • Get started by reading the framework page

Deployment

get_appstore_reviews function can be deployed with:

pip install bigfunctions
bigfun get get_appstore_reviews
bigfun deploy get_appstore_reviews

Examples

Get customer reviews of Nickel App in App Store

select * from bigfunctions.eu.get_appstore_reviews("https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/nickel-compte-pour-tous/id1119225763")

select * from bigfunctions.us.get_appstore_reviews("https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/nickel-compte-pour-tous/id1119225763")

select * from bigfunctions.europe_west1.get_appstore_reviews("https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/nickel-compte-pour-tous/id1119225763")


| ---------------------------------------------------|
| rating | content                                   |
| ---------------------------------------------------|
|    5   | Very simple to use                        |
|        |                                           |
|    5   | I advise you perfectly,                   |
|        | I have been with them for 5 years now,    |
|        | I have never had a problem.               |
|        |                                           |
|    5   | Really great. I opted for the black card. |
|        |                                           |
|        | ...                                       |
| ---------------------------------------------------|

Use cases

A market research team wants to analyze user sentiment towards a competitor's mobile application. They can use the get_appstore_reviews function to retrieve all user reviews for the competitor's app from the Apple App Store. The team can then perform the following actions:

  • Sentiment Analysis: Process the text of the reviews to determine the overall sentiment (positive, negative, neutral) expressed by users. This can provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the competitor's app as perceived by users.
  • Feature Analysis: Identify frequently mentioned features or functionalities within the reviews. This helps understand what users like or dislike about the competitor's app and can inform feature development for their own app.
  • Issue Tracking: Detect recurring complaints or issues reported by users. This can help the team understand potential problems with the competitor's app and proactively address similar concerns in their own development.
  • Competitive Benchmarking: Compare user ratings and reviews of the competitor's app with their own to gauge their relative performance and identify areas for improvement.
  • Marketing & Strategy: Understand the language and tone used by users in their reviews. This can help craft more effective marketing messages and target specific user needs.

Example: Let's say the competitor's app is "Fitness Tracker X" and its App Store URL is known. The market research team can use the BigQuery function like this (using the US region as an example):

SELECT *
FROM bigfunctions.us.get_appstore_reviews('https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitness-tracker-x/some_app_id')

This query will return a table with the reviews and ratings for "Fitness Tracker X." The team can then further process this data for sentiment analysis, feature analysis, etc. They could also store the results in a BigQuery table for ongoing monitoring of user reviews over time.

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