Your view into the App Store

We’re happy to announce today the release of a few new RSS feeds which provide a way to view activity in the Apple App Store without having to load up iTunes or the App Store on the iPhone yourself. The first two feeds are the most recent stream of new and updated applications added into the App Store updated hourly.

New applications feed

New free applications feed

Updated applications feed

We just started aggregating this data yesterday so the updated application feed is only based off of applications we’ve seen updated since yesterday. This feed will grow as we discover more applications releasing updated versions. The links inside of both of these feeds will take you directly into the App Store. If you’re using NetNewsWire on the iPhone, you’ll need to click “Open in Safari” for it to work. Loading the feed directly in mobile safari and clicking will load the application in the App Store just fine.

Our next two feeds are updated nightly and show the top 100 list of free and paid applications and also their ranking as of when we updated the list the previous day. Like the previous two feeds, clicking the links inside the feeds will take you directly into the App Store.

Top 100 free applications

Top 100 paid applications

Just like Pinch Analytics, we are releasing these feeds free of charge and they may be used however you’d like.

This entry was written by Jesse Rohland, posted on July 16, 2008 at 1:11 pm, and filed under Announcements, Data. Here's the permalink. You can follow any comments via this post's RSS feed. If you like, post a comment or leave a trackback.

42 Comments

  1. Joe Lazarus
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    Cool. Any way you could add a description to the feeds?

  2. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 1:27 pm | Permalink

    Yup we’re working on aggregating that data now and will hopefully have that available in the feeds soon.

  3. esd
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 1:32 pm | Permalink

    Wow! This is awesome. What a cool idea.

  4. jethro
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    This is a great idea. I noticed that a game called Cube Runner was in the App Store at launch but is no longer there. Do you have any information on Apps that get the boot?

  5. esd
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    As part of the “Top 100″ feeds, could you publish a summary report that lists the top 100 in one entry?

  6. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

    Sure I’ll play around with it. I wasn’t sure while developing it how we should present the data through RSS but having one new item a day with the data is a good idea.

  7. Glenn Marcus
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 2:49 pm | Permalink

    It would be great if you could pull at least the first screenshot as well. Just curious, where is the source coming from?

  8. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 3:24 pm | Permalink

    The new and updated application feeds have been improved to include the application description and also for the updated feed we include the updated text.

  9. Joe Lazarus
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Jesse, thanks for adding the description!

  10. greg
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

    Glenn - this is just us taking a bit of the data we’re using internally and making it public facing.

  11. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 4:58 pm | Permalink

    Following the suggestion from esd, the top 100 free and paid feeds are now showing one entry per day. Hope this didn’t cause any issues with anyone’s RSS readers changing the feed’s format so drastically.

  12. Art Vandalay
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 6:38 pm | Permalink

    Jesse - great work! When you say “Top 100,” I assume you/we are referring to “most downloaded.” Any way to determine “Highest User Ranking?” Thanks!

  13. Jim
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

    Thank you!

  14. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:03 pm | Permalink

    @Art The ranking is coming straight from the App Store ranking which I believe is most downloads in a certain time period. What that time period is I’m not really sure. Maybe someone at Apple could enlighten us on how exactly the ranking is calculated.

  15. moo083
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:10 pm | Permalink

    Could you add version number to the RSS feed? If its an updated version, the only way to know is by the version number!
    Thanks for the RSS feed, this will be very useful!

  16. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:12 pm | Permalink

    @moo083 Sure I’ll take a look at including the version number in the feeds.

  17. Anonymous
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    The New applications feed is returning error:
    Bang! Kapowww! Krakkk!
    (FeedBurner encountered an error while trying to bring you this feed and is now keeping its head down. Details follow.)
    Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedIphoneApplications-PinchMedia

    HTTP Error Code: 500

    Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out

  18. Nathan
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Any chance of doing versions for the UK store?

  19. greg
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:32 pm | Permalink

    @Anonymous - Yes, Feedburner seems to be giving us a bit of trouble at the moment. Hopefully it’ll be sorted out soon.

  20. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:34 pm | Permalink

    Hey everyone, it looks like feedburner is having some issues of its own right now. I would wait a bit and try to request the feed again.

  21. Ryan
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 7:35 pm | Permalink

    The new feed is down

  22. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 8:44 pm | Permalink

    Feeds are running once again. Sorry for the initial hiccups.

  23. Manatee
    Posted July 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm | Permalink

    This is excellent! These feeds will save me a lot of time counting “today’s” icons in the App Store, seeing if one has been added.

    Thanks!

  24. AW
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 1:27 am | Permalink

    What am I doing wrong? I have loaded the feeds. When I click on an app that is listed, Itunes opens. I thought that the purpose, was so that Itunes would not open. What’s happening?

  25. Morten
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 2:17 am | Permalink

    Wow, thanks a lot! This will make it a whole lot easier to track down new applications, and updates to existing ones!:-)

  26. robin
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 3:14 am | Permalink

    Any chance you could set up the equivalent feeds for the UK store as there are different availabilities there

  27. Jordy
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 3:59 am | Permalink

    I would love to see images added to these feeds to give us an idea of what the app looks like as well.

    Brilliant though, well done.

  28. Cacahuete
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 5:07 am | Permalink

    Avaivable for the FrenchStore too ?
    It’s possible ? Thanks

  29. SM
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 8:12 am | Permalink

    It would be nice to have also a “New free applications” feed… keep up the great work! Thx

  30. dnono
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 9:11 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the feed!

  31. David S
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    THANK YOU very much!

  32. Kyle
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 10:18 am | Permalink

    This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for! Thank you!

    Showing at least the first screenshot from the store would be really handy too.

  33. shriya
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 12:57 pm | Permalink

    Very useful. Thanks for putting this up and I second the request for images in the feed. That would make it so hard to visually identify an app easily while looking at the AppStore list.

  34. Josh
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    Adding to the chorus… the addition of screenshots would be really appreciated.

  35. Corey
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

    @jethro (#4): According the developer, he took down Cube Runner after discovering a bug. He’s working on getting it back up.
    http://andyqua.co.uk/CubeRunner/News.html

  36. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm | Permalink

    @SM Here you go, a new free application feed. http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedFreeIphoneApplications-PinchMedia

  37. Douglas
    Posted July 18, 2008 at 1:50 am | Permalink

    Can we get the date stamp in the feed? It’s not showing up for me…

  38. SM
    Posted July 18, 2008 at 7:39 am | Permalink

    Thank you very much!! Great work!

  39. Jesse Rohland
    Posted July 18, 2008 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    Time stamps are now in the feeds.

  40. Douglas
    Posted July 18, 2008 at 3:36 pm | Permalink

    Thanks so much!

  41. andrew wulf
    Posted July 26, 2008 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

    How are you getting this information? Some kind of backdoor? Apple doesn’t seem to publish this information anywhere that I can find. Surely for free you aren’t going through iTunes by hand and copying/pasting?

  42. andrew wulf
    Posted July 26, 2008 at 4:29 pm | Permalink

    Never mind I found it :-)

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