google-play-permissions

Retrieve required permissions for Google Play apps to analyze security requirements and data access needs for market research and competitor analysis.

Instructions

Get permissions required by a Google Play app. Returns a list of permissions with:

permission: Description of the permission (e.g., 'modify storage contents')
type: Permission category (e.g., 'Storage', 'Network')

When short=true, returns just an array of permission strings. Note: Permissions are returned in the specified language.

Input Schema

TableJSON Schema

Name	Required	Description	Default
`appId`	Yes	Google Play package name (e.g., 'com.dxco.pandavszombies')
`lang`	No	Language code for permission text (default: en)	en
`country`	No	Country code to check app (default: us)	us
`short`	No	Return only permission names without categories (default: false)

Implementation Reference

src/server.js:614-617 (handler)

The handler function that executes the tool logic by calling the gplay.permissions method from the google-play-scraper library and formatting the response as MCP content.

async ({ appId, lang, country, short }) => {
  const permissions = await gplay.permissions({ appId, lang, country, short });
  return { content: [{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify(permissions) }] };
}

src/server.js:609-613 (schema)

Zod schema defining the input parameters for the google-play-permissions tool.

  appId: z.string().describe("Google Play package name (e.g., 'com.dxco.pandavszombies')"),
  lang: z.string().default("en").describe("Language code for permission text (default: en)"),
  country: z.string().default("us").describe("Country code to check app (default: us)"),
  short: z.boolean().default(false).describe("Return only permission names without categories (default: false)")
},

src/server.js:602-618 (registration)

The server.tool registration for the google-play-permissions tool, including description, schema, and inline handler function.

server.tool("google-play-permissions", 
  "Get permissions required by a Google Play app. Returns a list of permissions with:\n" +
  "- permission: Description of the permission (e.g., 'modify storage contents')\n" +
  "- type: Permission category (e.g., 'Storage', 'Network')\n\n" +
  "When short=true, returns just an array of permission strings.\n" +
  "Note: Permissions are returned in the specified language.",
  {
    appId: z.string().describe("Google Play package name (e.g., 'com.dxco.pandavszombies')"),
    lang: z.string().default("en").describe("Language code for permission text (default: en)"),
    country: z.string().default("us").describe("Country code to check app (default: us)"),
    short: z.boolean().default(false).describe("Return only permission names without categories (default: false)")
  }, 
  async ({ appId, lang, country, short }) => {
    const permissions = await gplay.permissions({ appId, lang, country, short });
    return { content: [{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify(permissions) }] };
  }
);

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