get_apple_chart_postion {appler}

Apple App Store Chart Position

Description

Search for whether an application is currently in the top 100 apps of any category on the Apple App Store.

Usage

get_apple_chart_postion(id, country)

Arguments

id

The ID of the App on the Apple App Store. Either found by using search_apple, or available in the URL of the app to pull reviews from. For example, GitHub's App ID is 1477376903, as seen in its URL: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/id1477376905

country

The two-letter country code for the store you want to search. For a list of country codes see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Value

A list of two, containing the 'position' and the 'category' of the app if available.

If the application is not in the charts then both fields will return as NA

Examples

# Search for GitHub in App Store in the UK
country_id <- "gb"
github_search_results <- search_apple(
  term = "GitHub",
  country = country_id,
  media = "software"
)

# Look up chart position for GitHub in the UK
# (App ID found in trackId column of github_search_results)
get_apple_chart_postion(1477376905, "gb")