Comprehensive Web Scraper for Google Play Dashboard Data

Hello All,

My Platform team and I are attempting to gather a bunch of our customer/service data via an automated process where we code a script to obtain data from the Google Play dashboard of our app. We need to web scrape most likely with the `google-play-scraper` library. The reason for this is the following challenge we have run into previously while utilizing the Google Play API: When we have attempted to fetch data we have seen that the attributes we are looking for cannot be obtained with the query parameters available. Certain reports can only be obtained by manually calculating via retention cohorts and are not able to be obtained via the API, to my knowledge. Of course it can be obtained manually by downloading it through the dashboard, but we want to automate this process.

My question is with regards to web scraping: Will we be able to obtain all the information we need by web scraping the Google Play dashboard reports that one can find by navigating from the left-hand-side tabs within the Google Play dashboard console? This information contains PII, but since we have rights to our customer data we should be able to maintain confidentiality by following industry standards.

Please let me know if anyone has any experience with this kind of task before and I look forward to hearing from you.