Access short description from app listing

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

The library provides an API to fetch data about an app. The app detail object returned by this API contains the full description of the app, but not the short description.

Is there a reason why the short description is not included? I can see it if I inspect the source code of the Play Store page.

[jonathansampson]

Can you share an example of an app with a short description, please?

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

Sure, every app has one see screenshot from Google Play Console.

It looks like they are only visible from Google Play's mobile UI, not from the desktop UI. See screenshot from mobile UI.

Somewhat annoyingly the source code of the web page only marks it as "description". You can search for "AI video editor with music!" in the source of this page.

[jonathansampson]

Looks like the short description is just adjacent to the long description, so trivial to include. I've issued a PR to add the property and data, @PierfrancescoSoffritti. Nice suggestion :)

[PierfrancescoSoffritti]

Nice, thanks for the very fast PR!

[jonathansampson]

It looks like summary has the value you're seeking.

[facundoolano]

@PierfrancescoSoffritti you are looking for the summary property. Closing this as it's already implemented.