If you do want to go into that COM API, here's a codeproject.com article explaining how to get started using C#: http://www.codeproject.com
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Browse All TopicsThe Apple iTunes store allows you to extract via RSS query ... top albums, artists etc.
This is fine ... but I'd really hope to be able to extract more info than this ... such as Top Artists for a specific region.
Anyone know of a more extensive (free) API method for iTunes?
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If you do want to go into that COM API, here's a codeproject.com article explaining how to get started using C#: http://www.codeproject.com
There are a couple of public lists on apple's site where the original iTunes SDK is still listed. However, the link redirects to the ADC (Apple Developer Center) login page (even if you are still logged in). Sounds to me that you should email them that the migration to this new system of them is not entirely without mistakes and dead links.
The SDK is mentioned at least at these links: http://developer.apple.com
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by: abelPosted on 2009-03-08 at 13:35:01ID: 23831187
Yes, there is another more extensive API which is published as an COM interface. You can use it to get such information as short/long descriptisn, albumratings and playlists. It is quite extensive, but it requires (of course) understanding of COM interfaces, which is not easy...
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og/post/10 758/itunes -music-sto re- api/.
, I'm afraid you either have to delve into it quite deeply, or you have to stick to the lousy front end services like many others do...
Documentation on the API can be downloaded here: http://developer.apple.com
Here's some remnants on why there's no webservice API available: http://maisonbisson.com/bl
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