So my latest app got rejected... To cut a long story short... because the app is useful to other developers I released the full source to it, allowing other developers to utilize it. http://code.google.com/p/reviewscraper/ Review Scraper is the ideal app to download App Store reviews on a global scale. Developers can easily track what people are saying about their apps and see how it ranks in all the App Store countries. Search for apps using a familiar interface. Translate app reviews into your native language (language support is limited to what the Google Translation API supports). Downloaded app reviews are saved and can be easily deleted. This app was created due to my own need and an effort to learn Obj-C and Interface Builder. I have no doubt this app and the codebase can be improved ten-fold, please contribute! YouTube video of the app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-WiuYEKrk
Wow, this one looks realy helpfull! I'll defenitively download and use this app when I get the oppertunity to =D Too bad it got rejected =(
Hmmm, does look very nicely done. It'll make a good complement to AppSales Mobile for use when I'm traveling and away from my Mac... SVN checkout in progress Good job!
This is an excellent App. I am really really disappointed for you that Apple rejected it. I would happily have paid for this. Thanks a million for open-sourcing. Do you have any other apps out there? I'll happily buy 1 or 2 to show my gratitude
I'm assuming the reason for rejection that you posted talks about the search feature you've got (which looks awesome btw), so wouldn't you be able to get your app approved, by just making the user type in the app id (the number at the end of the app url, such as with http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=287658020&mt=8 (the 287658020 bit) ) instead of finding it through the search?
Unfortunately not no. The reviews themselves are pulled directly from Apple iTunes servers. There's no other way of getting the data.
Thank You Nicely done. It's a shame this wasn't approved. Do you have any plans to add the rankings for each country? If not I may play around with this in my free time and see what I can come up with. Add the rankings and this would be a killer tool for us developers! Thanks again
I second that! Have you considered doing an OSX version, as that would be even more handy, when you want to copy quotes to use on your website or other marketing material. I would definitely pay a few bucks for a shareware OSX-version.
