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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Big John said 6:19PM on 7-16-2008
Can't say I was exactly foaming for that one. This is probably nicer for the blogosphere (which Giles and Gruber definitely fall in) than it is for most end users.
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spyker said 6:34PM on 7-16-2008
Well I'm happy with this. The app store is getting updated so often it's easy to miss something.
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totoro said 7:06PM on 7-16-2008
Nice!
I didn't know they were already adding new apps to the Store since launch, damn.
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Ryan said 7:28PM on 7-16-2008
I get an error when I try to add the most important feed, the new feed...
Bang! Kapowww! Krakkk!
(FeedBurner encountered an error while trying to bring you this feed and is now keeping its head down. Details follow.)
Feed Address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RecentlyAddedIphoneApplications-PinchMedia
HTTP Error Code: 500
Detail: There was a problem retrieving the feed: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
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Tom said 7:30PM on 7-16-2008
I get the exact same error as Ryan. Bummer because the "New Apps" feed is the only one I'm interested in.
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Jesse Rohland said 7:41PM on 7-16-2008
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.
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Andy said 7:56PM on 7-16-2008
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.
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Tom said 8:06PM on 7-16-2008
You guys didnt do your homework. Medialets launched that feature yesterday. http://medialets.com/app-store-metrics/ ...And it works.
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Josh said 8:33PM on 7-16-2008
Pinch Media feed works fine for me and appears to have fresher data.
XIV said 8:29PM on 7-16-2008
Nice, I just wrote to Apple about this like 2 days ago.
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Jesse Rohland said 8:42PM on 7-16-2008
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. :)
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Itchy Pajamas said 8:58PM on 7-16-2008
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.
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Jon said 9:41PM on 7-16-2008
You could use Dapper (http://www.dapper.net) to create an RSS feed for any part of the site - not just these four feeds.
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WIlbo said 10:48PM on 7-16-2008
VersionTracker has an iPhone app page now, too.
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Theo said 1:02AM on 7-17-2008
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?
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puhsitch said 1:36AM on 7-17-2008
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).
timofius said 10:57AM on 8-12-2008
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.
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