App Store Rankings Scraper

Copyright © 2011, 2012 Jon Parise <jon@indelible.org>

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