Google Play Store & Catchr: How to connect your data

How to connect Google Play Store to Catchr

Connecting your Google Play Store account to Catchr is the best way to make your Apps data accessible to your best reporting tools. To connect your account, you will need to grant access to our Google Services account, find your bucket ID in your Google Play Store account and create a new Source on Catchr with it. Once done, your Google Play Apps data will be accessible on Looker Studio, Google Sheets, PowerBI, Tableau...

We will cover everything in this article.

Granting access to our Google Services account:

For this first step, you will need Admin-level access to your Google Play Console Developer Account.

Go to your Google Play Store account, Users and Permissions and invite our Google account.

You can find our service address in the pop-up when creating a Catchr Source :

(do not copy it from this image, it is dynamically generated)

You must give it the following permissions:

1. View app information and download bulk reports (read-only).
2. View financial data, orders, and cancellation survey responses.
3. Manage store presence.

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IMPORTANT: Ensure both "App Permissions" and "Account Permissions" are given. You can find those two tabs under "Permission":

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Please note that Google can take up to 30 hours to confirm the new access.

Now, you have granted access to our Google Services, let's find your bucket ID and create your Catchr Source.

Finding your Bucket Id :

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• Select any option below the "Download Reports" section on the menu.

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• Click on "Copy Cloud Storage API".

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• Open a note and paste the Cloud Storage URL.
• Select the section between gs:// and /stats/. This is your Bucket ID.

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Copy it, and we will use it to create your new sources on Catchr.

How to create your Google Play Store Source on Catchr ?

Connect to your Catchr space (or create an account if necessary), and add a new source.

Select Google Play Store and give it the Bucket ID.

If our Google Services have been invited, you should find your list of Apps once the pop-up closes (it can take 2 or 3 minutes maximum).

Once your Apps are visible on Catchr, you can use the data for all our destinations. If they are not visible, please come back in 30 hours when Google processed the new Access granted in the first step.

Starting with Looker Studio and Google Play Store:

Follow this link to our Google Play Store connector for Looker Studio. Go through the authorization steps (be sure to log in to Looker Studio and Catchr with the same account; you will avoid many issues).

Select your account in the list and click Connect:

Once your data source is created, you'll land on the field list with their description. ClickCreate Report to make your new Google Play Store report with Looker Studio.

Starting with Google Sheets and Google Play Store:

You can install our Google Sheets add-on and import data to Google Sheets automatically!

Open a new Google sheets, click on Extension -> Catchr - Data Connector -> Launch:

You now have access to our Add-on. Click on Add new to start creating a new query:

Follow this link to find a complete tutorial on how to use our Google Sheets Add-on for your Google Play Store Apps.