iTunes Music Store Link Maker — how to search from within my app?
- by prendio2
I'm writing a music reference app and for each album (pulled from last.fm) would like to link to the ITMS (if the album is in the store).
iTunes link maker web tool http://apple.com/itunes/linkmaker/ is great for getting links for a known album but I need to access it programatically from within my app.
This NSLog blogpost which is from 2003 but was referenced more recently in another question here seems to offer the only solution I've come across so far, suggesting to submit a query to:
phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?
Put "itms://" before it and the link will work in iTunes, put "http://" before it and the link will work in Camino (Safari sometimes spits back a malformed XML error).
The tags that are of importance are as follows:
songTerm - song title
artistTerm - artist name
albumTerm - album name
composerTerm - composer name
term - all fields
The suggestion is that would using http:// rather than itms:// the server will return an XML document of results instead of opening iTunes but either way I am sent directly to iTunes.
Is it possible to get back a list of results?
