google-play-scraper: Random mapping error.

I see that something wrong with mapping. it’s giving me that error 2 out of 3 times, it’s kind of strange:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'replace' of undefined
at Object.descriptionText [as fun] (/node_modules/google-play-scraper/lib/mappers/details.js:125:51)
at //node_modules/google-play-scraper/lib/utils/scriptData.js:52:19
at XWrap.f (/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:5955:28)

@facundoolano would be great if you check what could be wrong with that… Thanks.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 21 (8 by maintainers)

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@Giszmo @VitaliyRDev PR #498 is up for review

icarcal on Jan 6, 2022

Hey everyone, I’ll also take a look at this now

icarcal on Jan 6, 2022

> const gplay = require('google-play-scraper')
> gplay.app({appId: 'se.pax.calima', lang: 'en', country: 'fr'}).then((res) => console.log(res))
Promise {
  <pending>,
  [Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 82,
  [Symbol(trigger_async_id_symbol)]: 70,
  [Symbol(destroyed)]: { destroyed: false }
}
> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')
    at Object.descriptionText [as fun] (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/google-play-scraper/lib/mappers/details.js:125:51)
    at /home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/google-play-scraper/lib/utils/scriptData.js:52:19
    at XWrap.f (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:5955:28)
    at XWrap.@@transducer/step (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:392:25)
    at _arrayReduce (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:5137:46)
    at _reduce (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:5167:24)
    at map (/home/leo/StudioProjects/giszmo.github.io/node_modules/ramda/dist/ramda.js:5954:20)

Using many country codes here for thousands of apps, I’m heavily affected, too.

Giszmo on Jan 6, 2022

@facundoolano when will npm get an update? I thought it would be easy to just use the project as git submodule but somehow I had issues and now have issues again and imagine others are in the same boat and it’s been 3 days, …

first my jsminify tried to minify this project and now an exception behaves differently than when using the npm package. I’ll try to fix that for my project but a fast update of npm would certainly be appreciated not just by me.

Giszmo on Jan 9, 2022

@icarcal excellent! I think this does the job for me. Didn’t test with all 2000 apps but the ones causing issues before now work.

Giszmo on Jan 6, 2022

@89z are you implying the above code works for you if you filter (how?) for certain fields? Either way it’s a bug that needs to be fixed.

Giszmo on Jan 6, 2022

@89z

gplay.app({appId: 'se.pax.calima', lang: 'en', country: 'fr'}).then((res) => console.log(res)); for country us it’s working totally fine. it seems they have changed mapping but only for particular countries.

but some other apps don’t work in us country code either.

VitaliyRDev on Jan 6, 2022