How do sites like Apptism and Appbeacon build their list of apps from the AppStore? Is there some way to query the store and get information such as title, author, ratings, etc.?
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They screen-scrape the html. This article may be helpful for you.
Several websites (such as Pinch) use this data to provide RSS feeds of different application categories and their associated information. Depending on your needs this may be an easier option.
Andrew Grant
2009-03-28 20:15:56
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There are also XML feeds of the App Store which includes category, release date, etc.
Here's an article that describes what's available and how to get at it. Your View into the App Store
John Fricker
2009-03-28 23:43:33
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Wow, thanks for the quick responses and references. I'm not really interested in using Pinch since their feeds are limited and not a full list.
The other article, which appears to gather this information using curl and a perl script seems to be no longer working. Thanks, though. This is enough to get going.
mrbgty
2009-03-30 01:41:19
This is not an answer. Please comment on the answers or update your question.
Can Berk Güder
2009-03-30 01:44:50