The default configuration for GPlayCLI allows you to search and download (free) apks from the Google Play store without a Google account. In order to accomplish this, it queries a third party site that's running a token generator. Once it gets that token, it can access Google. However, Google sometimes changes their API or blacklists the token generator site, breaking this process. Something has broken if you get a message such as: Multiple attempts to fetch anonymous token failed. Try setting 'token=False' and adding Google credentials to gplaycli.conf If you're seeing this message, you can either wait (the breakage could be temporary; file a bug if it lasts more than a day), or do the following: 1) Create a Google account if you don't already have one. 2) Go to google.com in your browser. Sign in if you're not already signed in. 3) Click on the account circle on the upper right hand side of the screen. The pull-down will have your name and email address. Make a note of your email address, as you will need it later. Then click on "Manage your Google Account" below the email address. 4) Click on "Security". 5) Enable "2-Step Verification" if it's not already enabled. 6) Once "2-Step Verification" is enabled, click on "App passwords". 7) On the "Select app" pull-down, pick "Other (Custom name)" and fill in a name (such as "gplaycli"). Then click the "GENERATE" button. 8) A popup screen will say "Your app password for your device", with a random string of 16 characters. 9) Copy /etc/gplaycli/gplaycli.conf to your working directory, and open it in your favorite editor. You could also edit the file in /etc/gplaycli, but you'll want to modify ownership and permissions of the file so that other users on the system can't see your credentials. 10) Change "token=True" to "token=False". 11) Where it says "gmail_address=", append the email address that you noted in step 3. 12) Where it says "gmail_password=", copy and paste the random 16 character string from step 8. 13) Save gplaycli.conf, and you should be good to go!