History (updates, price drops) of Apps on the Apple App Store accessible via XML?

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History (updates, price drops) of Apps on the Apple App Store accessible via XML?

In an attempt to build a site that lists Apps from the iTunes App Store, I need to gather the information from the App Store. I have found a way to get the XML that gets rendered by iTunes to create the App Store pages inside iTunes, but I'd like to get more information.

I'd like to be able to get an App's history, i.e. price changes, updates, etc. Besides that, it would be interesting to quickly find those Apps of which the price has dropped recently.

Is there a way to do this, or would I just need to download and parse all the info of all Apps all over and do a diff to the previous version?

You could store the data in a database and maintain your own information.

DanDan 2010-08-12 14:32:03

sure, but then I wouldn't have any record of the data that was created before my initial import, which is what I'd like to do.I'd like to retrieve all data including history of the apps from the App Store.

dertyp 2010-08-12 14:42:18

It is likely Apple will not give you this information either. The best you can hope for is a 3rd party has captured this information already, you may have to pay for it though.

DanDan 2010-08-12 14:51:17

That may very well be the case, but I thought that all of the different sites out there which are listing the most recent price drops don't continuously monitor the whole App Store and compare the prices, but get their data from somewhere within the App Store.

dertyp 2010-08-12 14:55:29

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