Documentation on iTunes Search API

I'm looking for a documentation on the Search API. I don't mean the short doc provided on http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web- service-search-api.html but a complete overlook of possible entities and return values.

That and this: http://www.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/API/AffiliatesSearch2.1.pdf
...are it.
More than that, Apple intends to keep out of public view, apparently.

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  • ITunes Search API Returns Incorrect Type

    Hello,
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    (don't mind the content)
    The issue here is that at times, results of kind:music-video are returned. I believe since I specified entity to be musicTrack, only results of kind:song should be returned as per the API documentation.
    The type of results you want returned, relative to the specified media type. For example: movieArtist for a movie media type search.
    The default is the track entity associated with the specified media type.
    This issue has had me stumped for quite some time since upon refreshing the page (of the above search), results of kind:song will appear, but after another refresh, results of kind:music-video continue to show up.
    Am I forming my search URL incorrectly? Help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    ~dan

    I'm having exactly the same problem!
    Really frustrating. I hope someone here can shine some light on this as it seems too fundamental to be a bug:
    loads of people must share this requirement for a list of only audio tracks...
    **EDIT**
    Seems like we've been wasting our time on out of date documentation
    If you check this out - http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web- service-search-api.html
    Seems like you need to use &entity=song instead of &entity=musicTrack
    It states:  Please note that "musicTrack" can include both songs and music videos in the results

  • ITunes Search API returns Different Rating Count

    Hi everyone,
    When I view this item (iBooks) from iTunes:
    https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
    I got the rating like this:
    Stars 3.5 | 79 ratings (Average Rating For Current Version)
    Stars 3.5 | 9264 ratings (Average Rating For All the Versions)
    But when using the the Search API https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=364709193, I got:
    "averageUserRatingForCurrentVersion":3.5, "userRatingCountForCurrentVersion":608,
    "averageUserRating":3.5, "userRatingCount":83819
    The User Rating Cont numbers don't match: 79 vs 608 and 9264 vs 83819.
    Can anyone explain  the differences?
    Thanks in advance,
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    Hey Robin - just saw this and I've been digging through this stuff the last few days.  I think I know the answer to your question.. its that you have the canada store in the web page reference and in the search API you arent limiting it to just Canada..
    So esentially you're seeing the difference between this:
    https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
    and this:
    https://itunes.apple.com/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
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  • ITunes search api releaseDate - is there another date property somewhere too?

    Hi guys
    Are there two release dates in the API? I notice that releaseDate doesn't always match up with what is displayed in iTunes.
    For example, an api search in the Great Britain store for Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC, looking at the 'Bloody Tourists' album shows the release date as 2002-07-15T07:00:00Z, yet the store says Sep 1978 (the latter being correct).
    https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=dreadlock+holiday&country=GB
    Is there another date to access?

    I have the same question about the releaseDate.
    After investigation I found that lookup API always returns the date of the very first application version release.t
    For ex. if we have next versions:
    1.0.4.8 released 2013-03-20
    1.3.0.1 released 2014-12-31
    2.1.0.0 released 2015-04-20
    Lookup will return us release date 2013-03-20 for each new release.
    Is there some way to get the releaseDate of a specific version?
    Thanks,
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  • Search API Documentation Insufficient

    I'm trying to retrieve information about Movies & TV Shows using the search api.  I can get basic information using:
    https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=tvShow&entity=tvEpisode&term=breaking+bad& country
    But I can't get additional information like the cast, producer, ...  I've tried using the attribute by appending
    &attribute=actorTerm (plus many of the others that say that they are supported for all media types)
    but I get an error.  Is there any better documentation of examples that might help?

    That and this: http://www.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/API/AffiliatesSearch2.1.pdf
    ...are it.
    More than that, Apple intends to keep out of public view, apparently.

  • Search api and captioning

    I have just begun accessing the apple search API here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web- service-search-api.html.  When searching for a specific movie, I want to know if the movie is captioned. Does this API support this?  I have been unable to find any information regarding subtitles/captioning for a movie.

    I have 306 (iAS 1.0.2.0.0) I don't have this api, Where Can I found it. I can't install portal 308 becouse I have Linux Redhat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14 (iAS 1.0.2.0.0 is not certified to this kernel)
    Thanks in advance
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  • "Search API" (affiliate resources) provides previewURL, but not 90 seconds?

    The "Search API" (affiliate resources; http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web- service-search-api.html) provides previewURL to access a song preview, but this preview is 30 seconds, even though Apple has moved to 90 second previews for most songs (if they are longer than 2:30).  How can we get access to the 90 second previews so we can effectively sell the song (30 seconds not being long enough, as indicated by Apple's change to 90...)

    FYI, this question was answered by Apple's iTunes Global Affiliate Program Manager, Ted Hosmann, in another forum.  He wrote:
    “30 sec song previews are all that is available outside the store - the iTunes store reserves the 90 sec preview for users in the store.”
    You can guess my reaction...  Ok, I'll tell you anyway .  As affiliates, we're trying to promote Apple products, in this case songs, so that we can send a customer to the iTunes store and earn a nickel (and so Apple can earn five nickels).  Apple has determined that 90-second previews are the best way to promote and sell a song, but won't give us access to that tool?

  • Missing large number of results through Bing Search API (web results only)

    When making multiple calls to the Bing Web Search API (with a different $skip parameter), many queries I try seem to be missing many of the result I'd expect.
    For example, searching for the string 'obama' on bing.com shows 107,000,000 results available.
    When I search using the web search API using:
    https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Query=%27obama%27&%24format=json
    I get 50 results, and the '__next' parameter is given as 'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/SearchWeb/v1/Web?Query='obama'&$skip=50'
    If I repeat this several times, eventually I get a response with less than 50 results, and no '__next' parameter, indicating there are no more results.
    However, I always get far fewer than 1000 results (I'd expect there to be at least 1000). Trying to get 1000 results (by making a request and querying against the '__next' URL), I get different numbers of results each time:
    attempt 1: 355 results
    attempt 2: 441 results
    attempt 3: 358 results
    attempt 4: 692 results
    attempt 5: 692 results
    attempt 6: 694 results
    attempt 7: 659 results
    Querying for this should always return at least 1000 results, since 'obama' has 107,000,000 results listed when searching from bing.com
    Any idea what's going on here?

    Sorry to respond to this old thread, but the problem persists. It exists in both the web UI and the API. The initial result page (on the web) or result object (in the API) report millions of search results, however after clicking through a number of result
    pages (on the web) the total number is reduced to a few hundred. Similarly, in the API, setting the '$skip' parameter above this number does not return results. In the Obama case the first page shows 18.2 million results (http://www.bing.com/search?q=obama&go=Submit+Query&qs=bs&form=QBRE)
    but from page 35 and over only 529 results are reported (e.g., http://www.bing.com/search?q=obama&qs=n&pq=obama&sc=8-3&sp=-1&sk=&ghc=1&cvid=92729d6076e24a37a9e6ee099da99a4a&first=527&FORM=PERE7). Therefore the above problem
    does not seem to be related to the difference between the API and the web UI, but rather that Bing does not provide any results from a certain point (presumably because nobody is interested in them anyway). However, for data mining/web content analysis it
    is desired to get all results, even uninteresting ones. Is this behaviour documented somewhere, or can it be influenced?

  • Documentation for Service Contract API

    Hi All,
    Sub: Any Documentation For The Public API's OKS_CONTRACTS_PUB,
    OKC_CONTRACTS_PUB.
    Firstly i would like to say Thank You for spending your valuable time for this Query.
    Introduction:
    Currently i am working in Oracle Service Contracts module, which is Oracle
    Application's CRM module.
    Specifications:
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    with web.
    API's are:
    OKS_CONTRACTS_PUB,
    OKC_CONTRACTS_PUB.
    I search so much to the documentation for these API's, but i did not get any thing.
    I search in Oracle Meta Link, Google.
    Could you help If any Documentation If you find (or) you have ?
    Please forward to:
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    Any help from your side will appreciate.
    Thank you.
    Regards,
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    Look at this link you will be able to get some information about the Api
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  • Get audiobook link by passing ISBN using the Search API lookup request

    Hi,
    is there any possibility to get the link to an audiobook in the iTunes Store automatically by passing the ISBN?
    The solution provided in the Search API only seems to work for EBooks!?
    http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?isbn=9780316069359
    A request like this, via the Search API doesn't seem to work: (the audiobook exists in the store but is somehow not found)
    http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?isbn=9783844505511&country=DE
    Thanks

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  • Apple Search API screenshotUrls problem

    Currently Apple provide search API for developers to grab app information, but there is a problem.
    The Search API gives screenshot urls sometimes in tiff format, for example, if you look at http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=427451581, it outputs a json object and gives the screenshotUrls property as:
    screenshotUrls: [
    "http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/105/Purple/f4/1e/10/mzl.iglsmwvl.png"
    "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/091/Purple/36/c1/6c/mzl.jjjtwaoh.tiff"
    "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/093/Purple/0e/f9/22/mzl.fzvvuldk.tiff"
    "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/099/Purple/e2/90/12/mzl.qxijgrsp.tiff"
    "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/086/Purple/ae/6d/85/mzl.egcruftz.tiff"
    "http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/075/Purple/2c/07/fa/mzl.yoylibvb.tiff"
    note it give 5 images with tiff format, but browsers cannt load tiff images, which brokes some functionality of application using the search API
    however, the itunes store itself uses a converted jpg format image, just look at the corresponding itunes appstore page and take a look at screenshots: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/strahlenschutz-osterreich/id427451581?mt=8&uo=4
    the screen shots url are:
    http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/105/Purple/f4/1e/10/mzl.iglsmwvl.320x480-75.jpg
    http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/091/Purple/36/c1/6c/mzl.jjjtwaoh.320x480-75.jpg
    and so on, all with .jpg format
    so, is there a way to extract out the .jpg image urls, or is there any other API that provides desired screenshot and icon urls?
    Thanks

    I am surprised to say that I don't think this is possible.  Which is strange because upon inspection of the JSON results there is a return key for EVERYTHING except target iOS version.  I would imagine that this may be an oversight by apple.  It does not make sense that I can search "supportedDevices", "isGameCenterEnabled", and "fileSizeBytes" but not minimum or target OS.

  • JAM ODATA search api

    what entities does Search api return? How do we display info about the groups listed as search results?
    I tested the search api with a query and it returned search result objects but these object only have references to other objects. Our requirement is to display some informative text about the search results to the user and navigate to the object upon user selection of the search result.

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  • Search API Causing Timeout

    Hi there,
    I'm not sure if this is a problem occuring with anyone else, but since the recent change of the affiliates program, we have come across a few issues that points towards what I believe to be the Search API.
    When we query the search API between 8AM (PST) until around 12PM (PST), any page which runs a query through the Search API takes a very long time to load and then causes the page to timeout. Even when I type in the query URL directly (http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=xxx), it takes quite awhile to load the output page too.
    Has there been a recent change that could be causing this or what as this problem was not there until recently.

    Anyone from Apple able to help on this, or others who are facing this same issue?

  • ITunes COM API for Windows - iTunes 7.7 broken!

    I use the iTunes COM API for Windows to control iTunes as part of a program which helps users create audiobooks.
    Version 7.7.0.43 of iTunes breaks this software. So far as I can determine, the iTunes.ConvertTracks2 and iTunes.ConvertFiles2 routines are now broken, in that they no longer return a reference to the converted tracks.
    Is this a bug on Apple's part, or is it a fundamental change? The COM API documentation describes the earlier behavior, which makes sense.

    I'm seeing the exact same behaviour in my application calling the COM API from Perl. No track reference can be obtained after ConvertTracks2 completes.
    What's going on?
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  • How to get anonymous guest link "View Only" and "Edit" URL using JSOM or Search API ?

    Hi,
    I need to get list item anonymous guest link View Only and
    Edit URLs (as shown in image below) using JSOM or SharePoint 2013
    Search API.
    the URL will be like this - https://<site URL>/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=yRaYGmE9n
    Any one has any idea how to do achieve this?
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    Shakir

    Hi Shakir,
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    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj246826.aspx
    To get the anonymous guest link “Edit”, we can use SP.ObjectSharingInformation.anonymousEditLink property in sp.js.
    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj246468.aspx
    We can also use REST API to get the guests links:
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