App Store Rankings Scraper
Copyright © 2011, 2012 Jon Parise <[email protected]>
apprankings scrapes App Store rankings from iTunes and writes the results
to a CSV-formatted output file. It currently queries both the iPhone and iPad
App Stores for the Paid, Free, and Top Grossing lists. It covers the
All and Games categories, but it could be further extended and
parameterized to support a much wider range of queries.
This code is released under the terms of the MIT License.
Usage
usage: apprankings [-h] [-v] [-a APPS [APPS ...]] [-c COUNTRIES [COUNTRIES ...]]
[-o OUTPUT] [--threads THREADS]
Scrape App Store rankings
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose verbose logging output
-a APPS [APPS ...], --apps APPS [APPS ...]
include only these app IDs in the output
-c COUNTRIES [COUNTRIES ...], --countries COUNTRIES [COUNTRIES ...]
list of ISO-3166-1 Alpha-2 country codes to query
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
CSV-formatted output file (default: rankings.csv)
--source SOURCE source address given as host[:port] (default: auto)
--threads THREADS request thread pool size (default: 4)
TODO
- Support for parametizable category queries.
- Consider adding more output fields:
- Developer
- Link
- Price
- Updated Date