Question

I’m having trouble figuring out how to run the Android Marketplace Crawler here: http://code.google.com/p/android-marketplace-crawler/

I think I just don’t understand how the crawler is supposed to operate — first of all, the source — http://code.google.com/p/android-marketplace-crawler/source/checkout — says I can create a local copy of the crawler with the command

hg clone https://code.google.com/p/android-marketplace-crawler/

How am I supposed to run this command?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The hg command is a distributed version control system called Mercurial. You would first install the Mercurial command-line utility and then run the given command from your shell (Terminal on OS X). This would check out a copy of the source code for the android-marketplace-crawler to your current working directory.