How can I fetch information about the app/song/video etc. from iTunes Store?

Question

I need to get an info about the app/song/video by item id from iTunes Store.

I\'ve found this

But it doesn\'t work with apps.

Is there any public API

Answer 1

As far as I know (and I've done a lot of looking), there isn't a public API.

You're right that the HTML isn't semantically structured, so parsing it won't be very robust. But I think it's your only option. Here are a few links which might help :-

A Python script which parses reviews.

An Ars Technica article: Linking to the stars: hacking iTunes to solicit reviews.

An Inside iPhone article: Scraping AppStore Reviews.