googleplay/blog/2023-02-23-geo-blocking/readme.md

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# Docs
## Geo-blocking
Some apps are specific to region. For example, `air.ITVMobilePlayer` is specifc
to GB. If you try it from US, details will work, but delivery will fail:
~~~
> googleplay -a air.ITVMobilePlayer
Title: ITV Hub: Your TV Player - Watch Live & On Demand
UploadDate: Dec 9, 2021
VersionString: 9.19.0
VersionCode: 901900000
NumDownloads: 17.429 M
Size: 35.625 MB
Offer: 0.00 USD
> googleplay -a air.ITVMobilePlayer -v 901900000
panic: Geo-blocking
~~~
It seems headers are ignored as well:
~~~
Accept-Language: es
Accept-Language: es-AR
Accept-Language: es-ES
~~~
You can change the country [1], and then you get expected result:
~~~
> googleplay -a air.ITVMobilePlayer
Title: ITV Hub: Your TV Player - Watch Live & On Demand
UploadDate: Dec 9, 2021
VersionString: 9.19.0
VersionCode: 901900000
NumDownloads: 17.429 M
Size: 35.625 MB
Offer: 0.00 GBP
> googleplay -a air.ITVMobilePlayer -v 901900000
GET https://play.googleapis.com/download/by-token/download?token=AOTCm0TiBZQdp...
~~~
1. https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675