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I am thinking of putting together an app that will be pulling data from a very popular website. I have already looked at search and responses from the site and believe it can be done.
The only one question I have is, will apple have a problem with me doing this? The website more than likely will NOT give me permission to skim, but its public information so.... Will apple reject my app because I am skimming another site for data?
I would setup my own server to do the skimming but I am sure this website will see my ip hitting their servers a billion time a day (hopefully :) and ban my ip, so I plan on having the iphone itself skim the site.
Apple probably won't have an issue with this, but the website probably will. Most websites hate scrapers and put it in their terms of service that you're not allowed to scrape.
Apple only reject apps like this if they scrape Apple websites. Apple aren't bothered if you scrape someone else's site.
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When I try to register app SoundCloud page redirect me to Google Forms, where I fill all inputs. On submit I receive a message: "Looks like you have a question or two that still needs attention.", but there are no blank inputs. Any advice?
I had this issue also and when I changed the app URL and the redirect URI to something simple, for example 'http://www.appname.com' (as oppose to my localhost address), it seemed to work.
I have to say the new app sign-up on SoundCloud is pretty terrible, used to be so much more straight forward.
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If you look at the API docs it specifically says that the scheme needs to be https, but after 6 hours trying to install the SSL, giving up on it the and one last look at the google docs I realize that it said http or https!
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At work, we've developed a Facebook app to create a configurable 'tab' page with live information from our API, so that a small handful of our partners can display it on their Facebook pages in a template we provide. The app works fine, but is not something that needs to be independently discovered by people browsing a list of Facebook apps.
Thus, my question is, do we ever need to submit this app for a formal review by Facebook, if we don't care about being listed in their app index? We've got the app URL that we're giving partners directly to install, and that's worked already.
I've provided as much of the app details as are required (descriptions, icons, privacy policy URLs, contact details etc) to meet Facebook's own requirements. Is there any chance Facebook will look at the app down the line and require a submission, considering the app now has 'users' (i.e. people that have viewed the tab page it creates).
You only have to get your app reviewed if you want it to be listed in the app center – but it’s absolutely not mandatory.
But be aware that people could possibly find your app in other ways, f.e. it might show up in the normal search under it’s name.
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I need to do a market research on specific type of apps. so is there a way for me to know the download count of the app / any app.
Is there a way to find the number of downloads for a particular app in the iTunes App Store.
There is no way to know unless the particular company reveals the info. The best you can do is find a few companies that are sharing and then extrapolate based on app ranking (which is available publicly). The best you'll get is a ball park estimate.
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appannie.com and similarweb.com are the best options now. Thanks #rinogo for the original suggestion!
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Site is still buggy, but this is by far the best that I've found. Not sure if it's accurate, but at least they give you numbers that you can guess off of! They have numbers for Android, iOS (iPhone and iPad) and even Windows!
xyo.net
found a paper at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1924044 that suggests a formula to calculate the downloads:
d_iPad=13,516*rank^(-0.903)
d_iPhone=52,958*rank^(-0.944)
I think developers can do this for their own apps via iTunes Connect but this doesn't help you if you are looking for stats on other peoples apps.
148Apps also have some aggregate AppStore metrics on their web site that could be useful to you but, again, doesn't really give a low-level breakdown of numbers.
You could also scrape some stats from the RSS feeds generated by the iTunes Store RSS Generator but, again, this just gets currently popular apps rather than actual download numbers.
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Ive applied for the IPhone App developer license over a week ago but still havent heard anything back from apple as of yet.
Im quite deep into the development of my application and am wondering if there is a way i can deploy it to a device for testing in the meantime (while waiting for apple to get back to me)?
I cant jailbreak the phone because its not mine.
Also, does anybody know the average time it takes for apple to "contact your legal representative" and approve the application process?
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Unless you jailbreak, no, you will have to wait for a certificate to deploy a signed app.
I'm not aware of any way to load apps
Maybe one of your friends has a dev certificate?
I believe the apple process takes a bit over a week - at least that was the case for my UK based Ltd company.
Personal (non-company) applications are quicker; I believe these usually complete within 24 hours.
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I'm trying to develop a review monitoring system for several iPhone apps I've developed, for instance to email me with the contents of a review when one comes in. (Right now, without an iPhone, I can't even view reviews.) I was hoping there was some online browser for the app store (like cyrket for android), but I am unsure if this exists (I can't find any definitive answer via searching).
Is there any online browser that can be scraped? Or is there at least some API I can use to view app reviews? Or will it come down to sniffing packets and reverse engineering the app store protocol?
Unfortunately, none of the answers here did the trick, and I didn't get the feedback I needed.
However, I found an answer.
One can just go to the rss feed from Apple feedback (in the itunes connect site and replace the word xml with json (for those [like me] who prefer to work with json objects). However note, that XML has 2 extra fields, that are missing in JSON : <updated>(very useful) and <content type="html">.
https://itunes.apple.com/HERE-YOU-PUT-THE-CONTRY-CODE/rss/customerreviews/id=PUT-APP-ID-HERE/sortBy=mostRecent/json
APP ID - you cant get your app id from itunsconnect in the view details tab.
country codes - like il for israel, it for italy and etc.
For example, in my case the link was -
https://itunes.apple.com/il/rss/customerreviews/id=567630281/sortBy=mostRecent/xml
I hope this helps.
I know this question is probably out of date, but I found an EXCELLENT resource http://blog.manbolo.com/2012/09/10/useful-itunes-web-services outlining the various APIs that are available for querying iTunes data, INCLUDING a mechanism for querying app reviews, e.g.
https://itunes.apple.com/rss/customerreviews/id=400274934/xml
We had the same issues, and since we have 7 apps in the App Store, visiting the store pages wasn't really an option. So we built a tool that we recently released that you might find useful: https://launchkit.io/reviews/
It emails you all new reviews and posts them to your teams Slack channel.
This post outlines building such a "scraper" using curl. It also gathers international reviews, which is difficult to do just using iTunes:
http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/08/scraping-appstore-reviews.html