require "rubygems" require "nokogiri" require "mechanize" require "plist" require "app_store" # Caller regroups all the calling and xml parsing mechanism to call the AppStore. module AppStore::Caller extend self FeaturedCategoriesURL = "http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeaturedSoftwareCategories" ApplicationURL = "http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware" CategoryURL = "http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGenre" SearchURL = "http://ax.search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search" # Call the Apple AppStore using given url and passing params with an HTTP Get method. def iphone_get(url, params = {}) # About the X-Apple-Store-Front header: this is used to select which store and which language. # Format is XXXXXX-Y,Z where XXXXXX is the store number (us, french, ...), Y the language and Z the return format. # If you omit the language, the default one for the store is used. # Return format can be either "1" or "2" : "1" returns data to be directly displayed and "2" is a more structured format. answer = iphone_agent.get(:url => url, :headers => {"X-Apple-Store-Front" => '143441,2'}, :params => params) raise AppStore::RequestError if answer.code.to_s != '200' Plist::parse_xml answer.body end alias :get :iphone_get def itunes_get(url, params = {}) answer = itunes_agent.get(url, params) raise AppStore::RequestError if answer.code.to_s != '200' Nokogiri.parse answer.body end protected def iphone_agent @iphone_agent ||= WWW::Mechanize.new { |a| a.user_agent = 'iTunes-iPhone/3.0 (2)' } end def itunes_agent @itunes_agent ||= WWW::Mechanize.new end end