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Google Play Developer APIs
The Google Play Developer API allows you to perform a number of publishing and app-management tasks. It
includes two components:
Subscriptions and In-App Purchases
You can use the Google Play Developer API to manage:
You can use these resources to check the status of purchases, and to
modify and cancel recurring purchases.
To learn more about how to sell subscriptions in an Android app, read
Google
Play In-app Billing on the Android Developers site.
Publishing API
The Google Play Developer Publishing API allows you to automate frequent tasks having to do
with app production and distribution. This provides functions similar to
those available to a developer through the
Play Console,
such as:
- Uploading new versions of an app
- Releasing apps, by assigning APKs to various Tracks (alpha, beta, staged
rollout, or production)
- Creating and modifying Google Play Store listings, including localized text and graphics
and multi-device screenshots
Those tasks are performed using the new edits
functionality, which take a transactional approach to making changes;
you bundle several changes into a single draft edit,
then commit the changes all at once. (None of the changes take effect
until the edit is committed.)
Getting Started
To start using the Google Play Developer API, have a look at the
Getting Started page.
There are Java and Python libraries you can use to manage interaction with the
Publishing API. We have provided code samples on the
Client Libraries and Code Samples page. If you are using
other languages, you can access the REST APIs directly via HTTP.
If you’re having issues using the Google Play Developer API,
we’re
here to help.
Other APIs
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Last updated 2025-08-11 UTC.
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It features two main components: Subscriptions and In-App Purchases API, enabling management of product catalogs, purchase status, and recurring purchases; and the Publishing API, automating app uploads, releases via tracks (alpha, beta, production), and Play Store listing modifications. Changes through edits are bundled and committed at once. Java and Python client libraries, or direct REST API access, are available for integration.\n"],null,["Google Play Developer APIs\n\nThe Google Play Developer API allows you to perform a number of publishing and app-management tasks. It\nincludes two components:\n\n- The [Subscriptions and In-App Purchases API](#subscriptions) lets you manage in-app purchases and subscriptions.\n- The [Publishing API](#publishing) lets you upload and publish apps, and perform other publishing-related tasks.\n\nSubscriptions and In-App Purchases\n\nYou can use the Google Play Developer API to manage:\n\n- [In-App Products\n catalog management](/android-publisher/api-ref/rest/v3/inappproducts)\n- [Subscription Products\n catalog management](/android-publisher/api-ref/rest/v3/monetization.subscriptions)\n- [Products purchase\n status](/android-publisher/api-ref/rest/v3/purchases.products)\n- [Subscriptions\n purchase management](/android-publisher/api-ref/rest/v3/purchases.subscriptions)\n\nYou can use these resources to check the status of purchases, and to\nmodify and cancel recurring purchases.\n\nTo learn more about how to sell subscriptions in an Android app, read\n[Google\nPlay In-app Billing](https://developer.android.com/google/play/billing/index.html) on the Android Developers site.\n\nPublishing API\n\nThe Google Play Developer Publishing API allows you to automate frequent tasks having to do\nwith app production and distribution. This provides functions similar to\nthose available to a developer through the\n[Play Console](https://play.google.com/console),\nsuch as:\n\n- Uploading new versions of an app\n- Releasing apps, by assigning APKs to various [Tracks](/android-publisher/tracks) (alpha, beta, staged rollout, or production)\n- Creating and modifying Google Play Store listings, including localized text and graphics and multi-device screenshots\n\nThose tasks are performed using the new [edits](/android-publisher/edits)\nfunctionality, which take a transactional approach to making changes;\nyou bundle several changes into a single draft **edit**,\nthen commit the changes all at once. (None of the changes take effect\nuntil the edit is committed.)\n\nGetting Started\n\nTo start using the Google Play Developer API, have a look at the\n[Getting Started](/android-publisher/getting_started) page.\n\nThere are Java and Python libraries you can use to manage interaction with the\nPublishing API. We have provided code samples on the\n[Client Libraries and Code Samples](/android-publisher/libraries) page. If you are using\nother languages, you can access the REST APIs directly via HTTP.\n\nIf you're having issues using the Google Play Developer API,\n[we're\nhere to help](https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7218994).\n\nOther APIs\n\n- The [Google Play Games Services Publishing API](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/publishing/publishing) allows you to automate frequent tasks having to do with game services production and distribution.\n- The [Reporting API](https://developer.android.com/google/play/developer-api#reporting) lets you retrieve information about your app's quality from Android vitals.\n- The [Reply to Reviews API](https://developer.android.com/google/play/developer-api#reviews) lets you retrieve and reply to reviews of your app.\n- The [Permissions API](https://developer.android.com/google/play/developer-api#permissions) lets you automate permission management within the Play Console.\n- The [Play Games Services Management API](https://developer.android.com/games/pgs/management/management) lets you issue REST calls to programmatically control the metadata underlying the Google Play Games Services features.\n- The [Voided Purchases API](https://developer.android.com/google/play/developer-api#voided-purchases) provides a list of orders that are associated with purchases that a user has voided."]]