add parseOthers() to fetch other apps by same developer

Author: IzzySoft

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Tiny script to crawl information of a specific application in the Google play/st
 - `parse`: mostly used internally – but can be used to parse any URL or text for valid Play Store app links and return their packageNames
 - `parseSearch`: search for apps by given terms
 - `parseSimilar`: search for what Google Play considers apps similar to the one specified
+- `parseOthers`: other apps by the same developer
 - `parseCategory`: list apps from a specified category
 - `parseCategories`: list available categories
 - `parseApplication`: get details for a specific app

google-play.php

@@ -268,6 +268,20 @@ public function parseSimilar($packageName) {
     return $this->parse($input, false);
   }
 
+  /** Obtain list of other apps by same author
+   * @method parseOthers
+   * @param  string packageName package name of the app to find similars for, e.g. 'com.example.app'
+   * @return array              array of package names
+   */
+  public function parseOthers($packageName) {
+    if ( ! $this->getApplicationPage($packageName) )
+      return ['success'=>0,'message'=>$this->lastError];
+    $input = $this->getRegVal('!<h2 class="sv0AUd bs3Xnd">More by [^<]*</h2></a></div><div class="W9yFB">(?<content>.+?)</c-data></c-wiz></div></div></div><script!ims');
+    if ( empty($input) )
+      return ['success'=>0,'message'=>'no data found'];
+    return $this->parse($input, false);
+  }
+
   /** Search for apps by a given string
    * @method public parseSearch
    * @param string query    string to search for