https://github.com/futuretap/itunesfeaturedcheck
Scrapes the App Store and finds out whether an app is featured on either the App Store homepage or in a specific category
https://github.com/futuretap/itunesfeaturedcheck
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Scrapes the App Store and finds out whether an app is featured on either the App Store homepage or in a specific category
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/futuretap/itunesfeaturedcheck
- Owner: futuretap
- Created: 2010-07-28T23:31:09.000Z (almost 16 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2012-11-07T08:11:36.000Z (over 13 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-05-30T19:47:41.368Z (about 1 year ago)
- Language: Perl
- Homepage: http://www.futuretap.com/blog/scraping-app-store-featured-entries/
- Size: 161 KB
- Stars: 63
- Watchers: 7
- Forks: 8
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: README.md
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README
Overview
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This script scrapes the App Store and finds out whether an app is featured on either
the App Store homepage or in a specific category.
See the [blog post](http://www.futuretap.com/blog/revised-app-store-featured-entry-scraper/) for a longer description.
Usage
=====
itFeatured.pl [iPhone | iPad]
If `iPhone` or `iPad` is not specified, it defaults to `iPhone`.
Example:
iTunesFeatured.pl 284940039 Navigation
The script's output is Tab delimited to make it easy to import it into other systems.
Columns:
- Date
- Country Code (2 letter, uppercase)
- Matches on the root level of the App Store
- Matches on the category level of the App Store
If the app is not featured, nothing is printed out.
Note: The script is rather slow. It has to spider 9 web pages per country, so it takes a long time.
To improve this, it uses a parallel queue of 10 downloaders. If you run into issues, reduce the `$max_concurrent_requests` value of 10 in the script to something smaller.
If you use this script, I'd be glad to know. Just shoot me a tweet [@futuretap](http://twitter.com/futuretap).
Have fun!
License
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Copyright 2010-2012 FutureTap. All rights reserved.
http://www.futuretap.com/blog/scraping-app-store-featured-entries/
http://www.futuretap.com/blog/revised-app-store-featured-entry-scraper/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/