RSS feeds for the App Store

John Gruber's heartfelt plea for iPhone App Store RSS feeds has now been answered.

Hands up if you, like John and me and probably a TUAWload of others, were frustrated at the lack of an obvious, easy-to-subscribe-to RSS feed of the latest additions to the App Store. The only solution was to view the complete list of iPhone apps and choose "Sort by: Release date". Not good enough. No.

The people at Pinch Media obviously felt the same way about this, and have announced a handy collection of four feeds (new apps; updated apps; top 100 free apps; and top 100 paid apps) for your subscribing pleasure.

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Source: http://www.pinchmedia.com/your-view-into-the-app-store/

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timofius

Been using this for a few weeks now on the iPhone in NetNewsWire. Works great. Waiting for all my apps to crank out their next update so they work! I find them really usefull.

August 12 2008 at 10:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Theo

I've never understood or used RSS. What makes this so much better than clicking to sort by release date. Why is that just not good enough?

July 17 2008 at 12:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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tdowling

You can monitor multiple streams of information at once through an RSS reader. So if you read 5 sites on a daily basis, you throw their RSS feeds together and you get them all in one spot without having to waste time navigating to the individual sites (or messing around with the occassionally-clumsy iTunes Store, for that matter).

July 17 2008 at 1:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

WIlbo

VersionTracker has an iPhone app page now, too.

July 16 2008 at 10:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon

You could use Dapper (http://www.dapper.net) to create an RSS feed for any part of the site - not just these four feeds.

July 16 2008 at 9:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Itchy Pajamas

Excellent! I've been sorting the App Store by release date and counting icons with today's date. This will be a great service to many of us.

July 16 2008 at 8:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jesse Rohland

Sorry for that initial hiccup but it looks like our feeds are working once again. That was a huge rush of traffic we got all at once. Thanks TUAW. :)

July 16 2008 at 8:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

XIV

Nice, I just wrote to Apple about this like 2 days ago.

July 16 2008 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom

You guys didnt do your homework. Medialets launched that feature yesterday. http://medialets.com/app-store-metrics/ ...And it works.

July 16 2008 at 8:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Josh

Pinch Media feed works fine for me and appears to have fresher data.

July 16 2008 at 8:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

Great! Thank you! I was hoping there would be a better way than searching on the App store. Looking forward to the new app link when it is fixed.

July 16 2008 at 7:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jesse Rohland

Yeah it looks like feedburner is having issues with the feeds right now. I'm hoping this settles itself out shortly and if not we can look into other ways of providing the feeds. I would try requesting the feeds again in a bit but we'll keep an eye out here at Pinch Media.

The feedback we've gotten from these feeds has been incredible and we thank the community for it.

July 16 2008 at 7:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply