Apple Store Ranking API

A simple API to provide ranking information of Apple Store Rankings (Free, Paid, Grossing).

Requirements

This API was developed using RVM and Ruby 2.2.2. if you do not have It installed, please follow this instructions.

Running

Clone the project and run the bundle command inside the root folder:

  bundle install

Starting Sinatra

In terminal, runs the command bellow and visit the url http://localhost:4567/apple-store/category

  ruby app.rb

Running the tests

The tests was developed using Rspec, VCR, webmock and json-schema. To run the scenarios just use the command bellow:

rspec .

Then you should see something like:

  ...................
  Finished in 0.35066 seconds (files took 0.70279 seconds to load)
  19 examples, 0 failures

API Specifications

Endpoint /apple-store/category

Param	Description	Required	Type	Domain
genreId	app category	true	Integer	All available Categories
monetizationType	monetization (Free, Paid, Grossing)	true	Integer	Free (27), Paid (30), Grossing (38)
position	rank position	no	Integer	Between 1 and 200

Behavior

URL	Status Code	Reason
/apple-store/category	422	Missing required Params
/apple-store/category?genreId=0&monetizationType=0	404	genreId or monetizationType not found
/apple-store/category?genreId=6001&monetizationType=27&position=1000	404	Rank position not found
/apple-store/category?genreId=6001&monetizationType=27	200	genreId and monetizationType found
/apple-store/category?genreId=6001&monetizationType=27&position=1	200	genreId, monetizationType and position found

Status 422 Body Example

  {
    "message": [
      "genreId is required.",
      "monetizationType is required."
    ]
  }

Status 404 Body Examples

genreId or monetizationType not found

  {
    "message": "genreId or MonetizationType not found."
  }

Ranking position not found

  {
    "message": "Ranking position not found."
  }

Status 200 Body Example

  {
    "top_publishers": [
    {
      "publisher_id": 413063859,
      "publisher_name": "Publisher name",
      "number_of_apps": 2,
      "app_names": ["App name 1", "App name 2"],
      "position": 1
    }
    ],
    "ranking": {
      "rank_title": "Top Free iPhone Apps",
      "apps": [
      {
        "id": 281940292,
        "publisher_name": "Earth Networks, Inc.",
        "publisher_id": 281940295,
        "icon": "http://app-icon-address/icon.jpg",
        "description": "Description of the App",
        "app_name": "Name of the App",
        "price": 0,
        "version": "4.4",
        "avg_rating": 3.5,
        "position": 1
      }
      ]
    }
  }