I'm playing around with the AppStore search API and I was wondering why the API is returning different results (in terms of ranking) than when searched on the AppStore on an iPhone. I'm using the following query:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=google&country=us&entity=software&limit=200
When I type in the search term on my iPhone I get most of the time the same result for position one and two but then the lists start differing. I thought the order of the results in the JSON is the ranking. But unfortunately it is not. Is there a way to get the exact ranking via an API call?
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I have been visiting some services api website but can't find what I am looking for. My question is more aimed at what resources to use rather than how exactly it should be done.
My iphone app requirement is to be able to track users that are nearby, are commuting and locate them on map. Additional requirement maybe texting them, call them, have video session with them etc. On a high level, this will convert to something like
get user details based on longitude and latitude
get to know if they are registered users of the service subscribed
Sending message to user/users
Call user using iphone phone api or dedicated app session
Video call
Waze is one of them. While it is open source, there is quite less documentation on how one can use it as backend for real time traffic data.
Then there is this Geoloqi which is paid, but has iOS SDK as well as rich api. However I cannot find sections that are useful to me when I look up to my requirements listed above. What I believe is that there must be many apps already relying on such a useful service. If any of them are open source / tutorials, it would be most useful resource for me for feasibility of geoloqi. Geoloqi also charges users for using their api, so it is also important for me to know what features come at what price .
For the level of data/information your interested in, and the functionality, you should just make your own app, I dont think you need those APIs.
You can find and send the coordinates of the people who are using your app to your server. Then you need to determine the distance between them, to see if they are in the zone of talking, or whatever other functionality you have listed above.
To determine the distance between two people, This answer should be helpful: Calculate distance between 2 GPS coordinates
I'm developing a little iOS App which shows POIs on a standard MKMapKit map (from Apple). When the user select a POI, the app send a request to Panoramio to get a photo from the latitude and the longitude, like that :
http://www.panoramio.com/map/get_panoramas.php?order=popularity&set=public&from=0&to=2&minx=XXXXXXXX&miny=XXXXXXXX... etc...
The problem is that I saw today on the Panoramio ToS :
http://www.panoramio.com/api/terms.html
Section 2: API Client restrictions
You may not use the API in API Clients using map technology other than Google Maps or any photo-sharing sites.
I'm not using Google Maps API for iOS so the question is : can I use the standard MKMapKit from Apple AND show photos from Panoramio in the same app ?
If not, is there an alternative solution to get photos from GPS coordinates ?
Thanks
First off, I AM NOT A LAWYER AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE.
Disclaimer aside, use apple's CoreLocation classes to generate latitude/longitude information, and you never touch mapping software.
Geolocation and mapping are two complimentary functions that don't necessarily interact.
From what I read there, I don't see a problem with retrieving your location via the CoreLocation framework, and subsequently using that info to request map information from Panoramio.
Good luck!
I am developing an iPhone application in which I am using Google Places APIs. I am finding user's current location using GPS. And I want to display places around user's current location. I am able to find places around users but in JSON data which is returned by Google APIs do not include images of places.
How can I get images of places using Google places APIs?
Thanks in advance.
check this cool project built for exactly the same reason - iOS5-Google-Places. More here as a blog post. It also has has search built in.
Application will determine location. Issue Google Places API request
containing the LAT and LNG and TYPES (types are configurable) and will
return JSON results into an object to display in UITableView.
This should solve your requirements.
Just in case this is not baking your cake, then you need to roll up your own iOS Google Places wrapper using a UIWebView and Google Places APIs.
Hai friends I am new to Iphone programing ,in my project i want search different places like hospitals ,heathers ,fire stations ,and I just give the place and radius as inputs to URL ,so this which is the best API.or give me the url.
You could give Google Places a go.
If you are not able (or willing) to comply with Google's terms you may consider using GeoNames instead.
i'm looking to query the itunes appstore charts to determine what position a given app holds.
this would need to go as deep as possible with a view to tracking an apps movement from launch to appearing in the top 100 and further.
any ideas?
You can get the top 200 apps, podcasts, etc. from the iTunes RSS feeds:
http://itunes.apple.com/rss
edit: The iTunes RSS feeds now limit you to the top 200. Up until a week ago it would return the top 400
There are plenty of sites out there that do this, but they all operate via some flavor of screen scraping. Apple has no API for this, and I doubt they ever will.
The app store data is in XML format. You can use any number of parsers — click on the search field in the top-right corner of the Stack Overflow page and type "iphone xml parse", for example, for questions about how to parse XML on an iPhone.
Apple will likely reject your application if you use it to scrape the Apple sites directly as it violates their Terms and User Agreement. If you want to do an app like this, I suggest setting up your own service that scrapes Apple, then use the iPhone app to connect to your own servers.
As mentioned below there are plenty of good ways to grab the data. See here and here
If you're interested in checking whether an app is being featured on the App Store homepage a category homepage, in What's new, What's hot or Staff picks, you might wanna have a look at a script I wrote:
http://www.futuretap.com/blog/scraping-app-store-featured-entries/
This will give you the top fifty songs:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topsongs/limit=50/json