Get iOS iTunes App Store ID of an app itself?

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est picture est · Mar 15, 2012 · Viewed 45k times · Source

Could an iOS app get the iTunes link of itself? Is there an API for this?

Answer

est picture est · Jul 24, 2012

Here is the answer.

  1. The app requests http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId=com.clickgamer.AngryBirds
  2. Find the "version": "2.1.0" and "trackId": 343200656 in the JSON response.

Warning: This API is undocumented, Apple could change it without notice.

References:

[1] https://github.com/nicklockwood/iVersion/blob/master/iVersion/iVersion.m#L705
[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/8841636/41948
[3] http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/wsLookup?id=343200656&mt=8
[4] http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/ws/wsSearch?term=+Angry+Birds&country=US&media=software&entity=softwareDeveloper&limit=6&genreId=&version=2&output=json&callback=jsonp1343116626493

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