Query Android app crash rate and ANR rate from the Google Play Developer Reporting API, checking metric freshness first
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Documented steps
Note the host is playdeveloperreporting.googleapis.com, a different API from androidpublisher.googleapis.com used for publishing.
Enable the Google Play Developer Reporting API on the Cloud project tied to your service account.
In Play Console > Users and permissions, invite the service account and grant the permission required to view the relevant reports; different metric sets can require different grants.
Obtain an access token with scope https://www.googleapis.com/auth/playdeveloperreporting. The androidpublisher scope will NOT authorize these calls.
GET https://playdeveloperreporting.googleapis.com/v1beta1/apps/{packageName}/crashRateMetricSet and read freshnessInfo to learn the latest finalized data point per aggregation period.
GET .../apps/{packageName}/anrRateMetricSet likewise before querying ANR data.
POST https://playdeveloperreporting.googleapis.com/v1beta1/apps/{packageName}/crashRateMetricSet:query with a body containing timelineSpec {aggregationPeriod: DAILY or HOURLY, startTime, endTime}.
DAILY buckets are aggregated in America/Los_Angeles; HOURLY buckets are UTC. Mixing these up shifts your numbers by a day boundary.
Set metrics from: crashRate, crashRate7dUserWeighted, crashRate28dUserWeighted, userPerceivedCrashRate, userPerceivedCrashRate7dUserWeighted, userPerceivedCrashRate28dUserWeighted, distinctUsers.
POST .../apps/{packageName}/anrRateMetricSet:query with the analogous anrRate metrics for ANRs.
Optionally set userCohort (OS_PUBLIC default, APP_TESTERS, OS_BETA) and an AIP-160 equality filter, then paginate with pageSize and pageToken over the returned rows.
Known gotchas
Separate host and separate OAuth scope from the publishing API. This is the single most common integration mistake.
Access is granted per service account in Play Console Users and permissions, not through Cloud IAM roles on the metrics.
Always GET the metric set and read freshnessInfo before querying. The most recent buckets are often incomplete and will understate or overstate rates.
pageSize defaults to 1000 rows and caps at 100000. High-cardinality dimensions such as deviceModel require pagination.
filter supports AIP-160 equality only, not ranges or arbitrary boolean logic.
Aggregation periods are metric-set specific; confirm DAILY vs HOURLY support per metric set rather than assuming both.
The error count metric set is documented at a lower stability tier in some references. Re-verify its version before depending on it in production.
Official docs: https://developers.google.com/play/developer/reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/vitals.crashrate/query , https://developers.google.com/play/developer/reporting/reference/rest/v1beta1/vitals.crashrate/get , https://developers.google.com/play/developer/reporting/metricset-queries
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