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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I know this question is probably out of date, but I found an EXCELLENT resource http://blog.manbolo.com/2012/09/10/useful-itunes-web-services outlining the various APIs that are available for querying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
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I am developing mobile application for android and for iphone. I have an advanced handmade logger which tracks every user action and sends logs to server. If there is no internet it stores logs and sends them later.
The questions are is there a logging system on the market, with which I can track anything I want(method logger.write I assume :))
And the main question: which system I should use for complex data analysis? F.ex. to see how much time users with specific phone model spent on given page after visiting another page.
To answer your main question I suggest you to use Flurry Analytics. I am using it on Android and it is very simple to integrate. Everything you need to know is on their WikiPage.
There is Omniture for android iphone web.
Both Android and iOS support Google Analytics. It allows you to define your own custom events and offers a lot out-of-the-box for analyses.
Android: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/firebase/android
iOS: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ios/v3
You can use sitecatalyst which is available for all the platforms.
Check this link
Another good option would be Parse.com, they are evolving every day. I think the best analytics provider would be Omniture (an Adobe service - Paid) followed by Google Analytics (Free).
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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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Working for a digital agency, you get a lot of interesting requests! :)
I have a client who has asked a rather strange question:
Is it possible to submit the same app to the App Store under multiple, different accounts/identities?
So if you search for Company A in the App Store, you would get this app as a result, and if you also searched for Company B, you would also get this app as a result.
Thanks!
Read the AppStore Review Guidelines Apple recently published.
2.20 Developers "spamming" the App Store with many versions of similar apps will be removed from the iOS Developer Program
Additionally, I think it'd be wise to advise your client against such a move, as it will only cause fragmentation for the app. Apps have keywords, so perhaps you should focus there to increase search results. I think you'd run into some issues submitting the same app to the store under different developer accounts--not to mention that you have to have individual developer accounts to even attempt such submissions. It'd really be a headache.
Technically, yes. At least if you're using different App-IDs and sign it with the distribution certificate for the account you'd like to upload it under.
I do not know however if Apple checks for 100% identical code / apps while reviewing apps - if not, it would propably work, if no, propably not :)
Even if multiple developers could get the same app approved, they would still have to change the app ID and the app name, so the search results would not show the same app, but multiple similar apps, all with different reviews and ratings, the aggregate of which would all be far lower in the popularity rankings.
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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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I've got an app on the iTunes store, and Apple provides daily (and weekly) sales reports. I'd like to download these in an automated fashion (say, via script attached to a cron job), but I'm not sure how to get around all their https-forms, Web-objects controls, session-IDs, etc.
Does anyone have a plug & play solution for this?
Thanks!
There's a thread in the Dev Forums about this: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/1253?start=0&tstart=0'>Sales Reports Script
Link: https://devforums.apple.com/thread/1253?start=0&tstart=0
I really like AppSales, an open-source iPhone app that scrapes the iTunes Connect website and gives you daily and weekly reports, graphs etc. It's open source so you can extend it to your needs.
http://github.com/omz/AppSales-Mobile
There's no API but you cant "scrape" it, there are various open source scripts online.
Instead though you can use www.appfigures.com which downloads reports automatically, turns them into interactive sales/downloads reports and sends parsed reports by email automatically as well as shows your reviews from all 77 app stores around the world and rank trending from 6 major app stores.
For security reasons I'd use a sub iTC account when signing up.
And its completely free (while in beta)