apkmirror: missing icon extract about obtainium

[ImranR98]

Obtainium doesn't extract icons from the source, it just grabs the icon from the OS, so it only works for installed apps. I'm pretty sure there is already an existing issue for extracting icons from the source.

[foxjaw]

No. The icon is missing even after app installation. It's only specific with apkmirror. If I remove apkmirror source & add some other like apkpure/aptoide/uptodown, all of them show the icon.
Reconsider this once.

[ImranR98]

APKMirror is a track only source, so it uses pseudo IDs instead of real package IDs. So we cannot ask the OS for the app icon because it doesn't know what the real app ID is. This could be solved if you can find a way to extract the real app ID from APK Mirror's website.

[foxjaw]

Oh k. How to extract the app id ? I'm taking the same example of mixplorer.
It's just com.mixplorer.

[ImranR98]

How to extract the app id ?

If I knew I would have done it :)

We try to extract the app ID from the website whenever possible, but when it's not possible we extract it from the APK itself. For APK mirror, neither option seems possible because we don't download the APK, and the website doesn't seem to have that information either.

[foxjaw]

Ah. Understood the issue. Is there a way to manually enter the app id ? I think that would fix this.

[foxjaw]

Btw, the metadata exists after I select a variant.

[ImranR98]

Btw, the metadata exists after I select a variant.

Good catch! Missed that somehow.

[ImranR98]

Ah. Understood the issue. Is there a way to manually enter the app id ? I think that would fix this.

That could technically be done but it would break too much because the app ID is kind of used as a primary key and is expected to always be fixed.

[foxjaw]

Is it possible to scrape app_id after selecting a variant ?