Scraping App Permission Data: Privacy Analysis at Scale

Scraping App Permission Data: Privacy Analysis at Scale Mobile apps request permissions that reveal their true data collection practices. Let's build a Python pipeline that scrapes app permission data and analyzes privacy patterns at scale. Data Sources Google Play Store — Detailed permission lists and data safety sections Exodus Privacy — Android tracker and permission database (API available) Apple App Store — Privacy nutrition labels Setting Up pip install requests beautifulsoup4 pandas matplotlib google-play-scraper Google Play Store Permissions from google_play_scraper import app , permissions import pandas as pd def get_app_permissions ( app_id ): try : details = app ( app_id ) perms = permissions ( app_id ) return { " app_id " : app_id , " title " : details . get ( " title " , "" ), " developer " : details . get ( " developer " , "" ), " installs " : details . get ( " realInstalls " , 0 ), " score " : details . get ( " score " , 0 ), " permissions " : perms , } except Exception