iTunes App Store Scraper
This defines a lightweight Python class that can be used to scrape app information from the iTunes App Store. It defines a couple of methods that can be used to get relevant app IDs given a set of parameters, and a couple of methods to then scrape data about these app IDs.
Much of this has been adapted from app-store-scraper, a nodeJS-based scraper that does similar things. But this scraper uses Python.
Getting started
The following scrapes app details about all apps similar to the first result for the 'fortnite' search query:
from itunes_app_scraper.scraper import AppStoreScraper
scraper = AppStoreScraper()
results = scraper.get_app_ids_for_query("fortnite")
similar = scraper.get_similar_app_ids_for_app(results[0])
app_details = scraper.get_multiple_app_details(similar)
print(list(app_details))
Documentation is not available separately yet, but the code is relatively
simple and you can look in the scraper.py file to see what methods are
available and what their parameters are.
Sources of Data:
| Query | Source | URL base |
|---|---|---|
| App | Affiliates API | https://itunes.apple.com/lookup? |
| Search | Old Affiliates? | https://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/search? |
| Developer | Affiliates API | https://itunes.apple.com/lookup? |
| List | Old Affiliates | http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/RSS/ |
| Similar | iTunes store scrape HTML | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/app/ |
| Full Details | Affiliates API | https://itunes.apple.com/lookup? |
| Ratings | iTunes store scrape HTML | https://itunes.apple.com/lookup? |
License
This scraper was developed by the Digital Methods Initiative, and is distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for details.
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