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