Work with the iTunes Store customer reviews API

Question

I am working with the iTunes Client Feedback API and I have some questions, the general URL is as follows:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/customerreviews/id=(APPID)/sortBy=mostRecent/json

I have two questions: firstly, I do not want to indicate the country, so I delete the country code as follows:

// /us/ has been removed from the URL 
https://itunes.apple.com/rss/customerreviews/id=(APPID)/sortBy=mostRecent/json

... but still the reviews and ratings belong to the American store. Is there any possible way to get a summary of rates and reviews worldwide?

Secondly, can I change the sorting of results defined sortBy=mostRecent?

My third question: if I develop an application that tracks reviews and bids with the official Apple API, does Apple reject my application for reasons such as scraping their website or something like that?

Answer 1

• Unfortunately, there is no way to get results for all countries at once. You must request each country separately. Here is a list of country codes: https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/linking-to-the-itunes-music-store/#CountryCodes

• There is no publicly documented way to change the sort order.

• I would be surprised if you had problems - in the end, you are not cleaning up your website, but using the API that they have disclosed for this purpose. Others have been doing this for a long time, for example. https://reviewbot.io/ or https://appbot.co/ . But there is only one way to know for sure.

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