iTunes-App-Store-Crawler
Multithreaded Python 3.2 webcrawler that scrapes a large portion of the app store and outputs information for each app.
The script must be run twice to be effective:
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Set operation to "store" in order to get the initial list of links to scrape
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Set operation to "apps" in order to get the information for those links
After running 2), a large set of csv files will be generated. You may concatenate them using the following command:
$cat *.csv > filename
Dependencies
This is written in Python 3.2 and is not compatible with 2.6 or 2.7.
The only outside package is Beautiful Soup 4 (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/), which can be installed using the commands $pip install beautifulsoup4 or $easy_install beautifulsoup4#.