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   Dragyn
   Member

   I've been looking at App Store ranking tools, and I'm interested in making a rank tracker for my own use, but I'm hitting a wall to match the scope of what some of the online services have available.

   To be specific, services like Applyzer and App Annie are able to pull the Top 1000 in each category in every store worldwide. How can we get to that data? The only real source of the ranking data I can find from Apple is the Top 300 for each category & store, through their RSS feeds. I'd love to be able to poll the rankings more often than once a day (App Annie), and I don't want to pay per app per month for Applyzer Pro to get hourly updates (and that's limited to 10 stores only).

   I can't imagine they're going brute-force scrapes of the store itself to get this info, but it's hard telling sometimes.

   Any idea how to access the Top 1000 by category by store?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   cocojoe
   Member

   I wrote one a while ago, was interested in intra-day trends for our own apps.
   The Top 1000 is most likely a guesstimate and not sure what real benefit this provides anyway.

   If you get even a tiny uptake in sales you will appear in Sub Category Top 300, if you are doing hourly stats you can clearly see the rise and fall from any marketing campaigns, reviews etc

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   finder39
   Member

   just grab the mac app majicrank.

   http://majicjungle.com/majicrank.html

   i use it to see how my app moves in rank during the day

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Dragyn
   Member

   @finder39: I thought MajicRank only scraped the top 300?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   finder39
   Member

   oh shoot your right, didn't even think about that. only does the top 200 actually :/

   im sorry

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   ravenousgames
   Member

   AppFigures.com does the Top 400.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Webtopia
   Member

   I noticed just by changing the URL you can get top 400 from the RSS feed feed://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topfreeapplications/limit=400/xml

   But I don't know how they get top 1000.

   I have an app that's sitting about 466 in overall free apps. http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/your-past-lives-your-future/id366801534?mt=8

   I would love to be able to watch it's rank in real time. If it's starts to drop maybe I can do some advertising to keep it moving in the right direction.

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   ayt
   Member

   Here they show you the ranking of all iPod/iPhone Apps: http://www.apptrakr.com/

   Posted 4 months ago #
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   Dragyn
   Member

   @ayt: Nice find.

   Any idea how they come up with those ranks? It's odd that they are able to determine rankings all the way down, even though Apple doesn't have an open API to show ranks... Weird.

   Posted 4 months ago #

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