Appstore

Elixir module to scrape data from Itunes App Store. Gradually porting it from app-store-scraper NodeJS module.

Installation

First, add appstore to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:appstore, "~> 0.2.0"}]
end

and run $ mix deps.get

Usage

Available modules:

App

Handles API calls directly related to an application.

get_details

Retrieves the full detail of an application. Options:

• bundleId: the Itunes bundleId. This parameter must be provided.
• country: the two letter country code to get the app from. Defaults to us.

Example:

{:ok, app} = AppStore.App.get_details "com.midasplayer.apps.candycrushsaga"

app.sellerName 
#"King.com Limitied"

Search

Allow users to search throughout App Store.

by_keyword

Retrieves a list of apps searched by a given term.

Method Signature: by_keyword(term, device, num, country) Options:

• term: a term to search for. Required.
• device: a device to filter for. Defaults to software, which brings all devices. Other options are iPadSoftware and macSoftware.
• num: the quantity of apps to be retrieved. Defaults to 50. Max should be 250, there's no validation so far, though. (TODO).
• country: the two letter country code to get the list from. Defaults to us.

Example:

{:ok, apps} = AppStore.Search.by_keyword("deutschland", "software", 20, "de")

apps
#[ {...}, {...} ]  a list of apps. 

Contributing

This module is quite new, and there's a lot to be improved and implemented. I intend to put here on docs a complete todo list soon, but meanwhile I don't do this, check out the app-store-scraper to have a good reference and idea of what the module should offer.

Feel free to fork it, enhance and send a PR.