searchitunes

nodejs-searchitunes

Light Node.js module to quickly search Apple's iTunes Store for music and apps.

Basically this performs a GET request to the iTunes API and validates the returned data to make sure the process doesn't die by remote failures.

Installation

Installation and connecting is simple:

From NPM

npm install searchitunes

var itunes = require('searchitunes')

From Github

git clone https://github.com/fvdm/nodejs-searchitunes

var itunes = require('./nodejs-searchitunes')

Usage

( paramsObject, callback )

• paramsObject -- object with search parameters.
• callback -- function that receives results.

You can find all the parameters in the API documentation: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html

callback

Success: callbackFunction ( resultObject )

Faillure: callbackFunction ( result, errorObject )

Result is always the response body, in case of JSON the parsed object. In case of faillure errorObject is provided with reason and headers.

Example

var searchitunes = require('searchitunes')

// Find free Github app for iPhone in Dutch App Store
searchitunes({
	entity: 'software',
	country: 'NL',
	term: 'github',
	limit: 1,
	price: 0
}, console.log )

{ resultCount: 1,
  results: 
   [ { kind: 'software',
       features: [],
       supportedDevices: [Object],
       isGameCenterEnabled: false,
       artistViewUrl: 'http://itunes.apple.com/nl/artist/github/id429758986?uo=4',
       artworkUrl60: 'http://a4.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/069/Purple/v4/95/79/4c/95794ce7-4fc0-c7c6-ac3c-5d2ede6b59ce/Icon.png',
       screenshotUrls: [Object],
       ipadScreenshotUrls: [],
       artworkUrl512: 'http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/072/Purple/v4/3e/a9/e7/3ea9e7d5-cea6-be41-d4fc-665f93d6227a/mzl.eefstvnr.png',
       artistId: 429758986,
       artistName: 'GitHub',
       price: 0,
       version: '1.0.5',
       description: '[..]',
       genreIds: [Object],
       releaseDate: '2011-08-09T09:49:17Z',
       sellerName: 'GitHub',
       currency: 'EUR',
       genres: [Object],
       bundleId: 'com.github.iceberg',
       trackId: 453833494,
       trackName: 'GitHub Issues',
       primaryGenreName: 'Utilities',
       primaryGenreId: 6002,
       releaseNotes: '- Bug fixes',
       wrapperType: 'software',
       trackCensoredName: 'GitHub Issues',
       trackViewUrl: 'http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=8&uo=4',
       contentAdvisoryRating: '4+',
       artworkUrl100: 'http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/072/Purple/v4/3e/a9/e7/3ea9e7d5-cea6-be41-d4fc-665f93d6227a/mzl.eefstvnr.png',
       languageCodesISO2A: [Object],
       fileSizeBytes: '1448076',
       sellerUrl: 'http://mobile.github.com',
       formattedPrice: 'Gratis',
       trackContentRating: '4+',
       averageUserRating: 4.5,
       userRatingCount: 3 } ] }

(console.log goes only 3 levels deep, combined with util.inspect would be more useful)

Unlicense

This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

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