[APP] Raccoon v4.12 - An apk downloader for Google Play

Portgas D. Ace · Jun 16, 2016

onyxbits said:
Sure, check out the source code for v3.6 and v3.7 from github. Compare the two versions and you'll find that they only differ in one GUI translation string and an added HTTP header when talking to Google (this is why I publish my source code: so everyone can audit!). In other words: you are getting a false positive from Trend Micro. Why you'd trust their software in the first place is beyond me. All AV products are snakeoil riding on the user's fear as their business model (and giving the occasional false positive has the nice psychological effect of giving the user the impression the snake oil actually does what it is suppose to do).

Thanks for the response :good:

I do indeed trust you and already guessed that it is a false positive. Nevertheless, I am forced to use the AV program at my work place (obviously), so I have to stick with v3.6 there as v3.7 gets blocked as soon as I open it. At home, I am able to use v3.7 without issues.

onyxbits · Jun 16, 2016

Portgas D. Ace said:
Thanks for the response :good:

I do indeed trust you and already guessed that it is a false positive. Nevertheless, I am forced to use the AV program at my work place (obviously), so I have to stick with v3.6 there as v3.7 gets blocked as soon as I open it. At home, I am able to use v3.7 without issues.

Ah, I see.

Sticking with v3.6 should be no problem. The only difference to v3.7 is that you are stuck with "legacy" accounts. Alternatively, you could also use the .jar version. The .exe is just a wrapper and i assume that is actually the part, Trend Micro mainly triggers on.

Portgas D. Ace · Jun 16, 2016

onyxbits said:
Ah, I see.

Sticking with v3.6 should be no problem. The only difference to v3.7 is that you are stuck with "legacy" accounts. Alternatively, you could also use the .jar version. The .exe is just a wrapper and i assume that is actually the part, Trend Micro mainly triggers on.

Using the .jar version works just fine :good: AV doesn't get triggered. Thanks for this little hint.

winter_bear · Jun 16, 2016

The search has performed poorly lately, for example search string "crossy road" (Crossy Road app has +50,000,000 install on Google Play; Disney Crossy Road +10,000,000) and "jetpack joyride" (Jetpack Joyride +100,000,000) don't return the applications. I also noticed this issue with Blank Store, I remember Raccoon's search working flawlessly.
I've read your article, the apps definitely aren't geo-blocked in my country. I don't believe the developers have excluded "Samsung smartphone" either.

onyxbits · Jun 16, 2016

winter_bear said:
The search has performed poorly lately, for example search string "crossy road" (Crossy Road app has +50,000,000 install on Google Play; Disney Crossy Road +10,000,000) and "jetpack joyride" (Jetpack Joyride +100,000,000) don't return the applications. I also noticed this issue with Blank Store, I remember Raccoon's search working flawlessly.
I've read your article, the apps definitely aren't geo-blocked in my country. I don't believe the developers have excluded "Samsung smartphone" either.

I seem to have no problems with those apps using Raccoon v3.7

onyxbits · Jun 17, 2016

On a related note: I'm also in the process of rewriting Dummydroid, a companion tool for spoofing arbitrary Android devices. Any artists around here willing to contribute an application icon (must be in SVG format and under a creative commons license)?

theyupp · Jun 17, 2016

3.7 did it

3.7 solved the problem her. Anything else (log in into play store directly...) didn't. Thank you.

bigsupersquid · Jun 17, 2016

just for testing, made new Google account through the link on the raccoon release page.
it didn't require me to use phone verification this time, but it has the last two times previous.
turned on less secure apps in settings, two step verification defaults to off.
autogenerated gsf id, raccoon 3.6 had the expected bad credentials error on login. 3.7 worked just fine, also as expected. @onyxbits, what kind of graphic are you interested in for dummydroid? notwithstanding my 7 year old 8bit ms paint avatar I've got on all the forums i frequent, i can actually generate decent stuff when motivated.

onyxbits · Jun 18, 2016

bigsupersquid said:
just for testing, made new Google account through the link on the raccoon release page.
it didn't require me to use phone verification this time, but it has the last two times previous.
turned on less secure apps in settings, two step verification defaults to off.
autogenerated gsf id, raccoon 3.6 had the expected bad credentials error on login. 3.7 worked just fine, also as expected. @onyxbits, what kind of graphic are you interested in for dummydroid? notwithstanding my 7 year old 8bit ms paint avatar I've got on all the forums i frequent, i can actually generate decent stuff when motivated.

Yeah, the phone verification is temporary. Google seems to apply it to a whole subnet when one IP address in it goes over the account creation quota. Two days later or so they take it back as it costs them money and new users. Curious thing is: when you sign up with Android, you are spared the ordeal and potentially have to submit less personal information. So that's what I'm working on currently

: Putting account creation in DummyDroid.

Raccoon v3.6 will always fail with new accounts, no matter what. I spoke a bit too soon there. After a bit more digging it looks like that when you signed up for an account previously, you'd implicitly accept the TOS of Play. That's no longer the case unless you sign up from the Play website directly. Actually, I think that's a good change.

As for the icon: pretty much something that can show in the taskbar and the window title (so it must scale from 16x16 to 64x64). I don't particularly care what it is, I just want to get rid of the default Java icon. Maybe some variation of the Android Robot?

nussbaum · Jun 19, 2016

onyxbits said:
As for the icon: pretty much something that can show in the taskbar and the window title (so it must scale from 16x16 to 64x64). I don't particularly care what it is, I just want to get rid of the default Java icon. Maybe some variation of the Android Robot?

A crash test dummy's head? With those circular measuring markings...
Sorry i am no artist.

onyxbits · Jun 19, 2016

nussbaum said:
A crash test dummy's head? With those circular measuring markings...
Sorry i am no artist.

I don't think you get that scaled down to 16x16

. Besides, it should be avoided to pun on the applications name (puns always get lost in translations). An ideal icon depicts the program's function.

Sportfreunde · Jun 29, 2016

Is there any way to get Raccoon on an actual Android device itself? I find it a bit tedious to always have to manually check each separate app for an update then copy/paste it to the phone. Even automating that part would be great if it can't be done on the phone itself.

bigsupersquid · Jun 29, 2016

Sportfreunde said:
Is there any way to get Raccoon on an actual Android device itself? I find it a bit tedious to always have to manually check each separate app for an update then copy/paste it to the phone. Even automating that part would be great if it can't be done on the phone itself.

search back a page or three... i posted a little info on this
basically use a Linux chroot with oracle Java, plus vnc app or xserver-xsdl for gui.

MyResult · Jul 7, 2016

download link

hi, is there any way to know app download link while downloading it using Raccoon?

onyxbits · Jul 7, 2016

MyResult said:
hi, is there any way to know app download link while downloading it using Raccoon?

Uhm, what do you need that for?

MyResult · Jul 7, 2016

onyxbits said:
Uhm, what do you need that for?

Raccoon download app with one connection and my internet provider limit each connection to 50KBps, I want to copy app url to IDM(internet download manager) and download it with 8 connection in a time(multi part download with 400KBps)

onyxbits · Jul 8, 2016

MyResult said:
Raccoon download app with one connection and my internet provider limit each connection to 50KBps, I want to copy app url to IDM(internet download manager) and download it with 8 connection in a time(multi part download with 400KBps)

Doesn't work that way, sorry. I'd also like to take this opportunity to voice my opinion on how download manager slow connection s. Don't use them.

speedster_no1 · Jul 8, 2016

good job

MyResult · Jul 8, 2016

onyxbits said:
Doesn't work that way, sorry. I'd also like to take this opportunity to voice my opinion on how download manager slow connection s. Don't use them.

Thank's onyxbits for your answer and software. i think you're right about Download Managers but in my situation IDM will be good.
Today i download Raccoon source from github, import it to Eclipse and add necessary library for run it, but when build project, some errors occurred.
Now can i ask you some question about how to resolve this errors?

onyxbits · Jul 8, 2016

MyResult said:
Thank's onyxbits for your answer and software. i think you're right about Download Managers but in my situation IDM will be good.
Today i download Raccoon source from github, import it to Eclipse and add necessary library for run it, but when build project, some errors occurred.
Now can i ask you some question about how to resolve this errors?

Sure

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