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When you’re building and manipulating apps in the Apple App Stores, it helps to be able to pull and parse pieces of data. Here, we’ll look at two strategies that you can use to do so. It’s worth noting that the purpose of this was to use the URL of an app from an MDM and then be able to script updating metadata about the app, given that vendors often change names of the display name of an app (e.g. Yelp is actually called “Yelp: Discover Local Favorites on the App Store”).
First, we’ll grab a URL. This one is for Self Service:https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-service-mobile/id718509958?mt=8
If you don’t know the URL then you can get it based on the ID by parsing the json from:curl https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=718509958
Of course, if you know the id, you can probably just assume that https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id718509958?mt=8 will work as well, since if you remove the name it has always worked for me (although I’ve never seen that in a spec so I can’t guarantee it will always be true). Then, we can curl it, but the output is a bit not lovely:curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-service-mobile/id718509958?mt=8'
So then we’ll want to just grab the pieces of information we want, which could be done using a variety of scripting techniques. Below, we’ll use grep:curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-service-mobile/id718509958?mt=8' | grep -o '<title>[^<]*' | cut -d'>' -f2-
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And here, we’ll use perl:curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp/id284910350?mt=8' | perl -l -0777 -ne 'print $1 if /<title.*?>s*(.*?)s*</title/si'
curl -s 'https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-service-mobile/id718509958?mt=8' | awk '/meta name='description'/{;print }'
The output would be similar to the following
<meta name='description'>From there it’s pretty simple to extract the exact field you want and the metadata from that field. If you are obtaining names and descriptions for a large number of apps then you’d simply move the path into a variable as follows so you can put it into your loop:
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curl -s $appurl | grep -o '<title>[^<]*' | cut -d'>' -f2-I haven’t covered finding items in the App Store if you don’t know the ID of an app, but there’s a /search endpoint at iTunes.apple.com that will respond to a variety of parameters you can pass:
curl https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=yelp&country=us&entity=software