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Asked: 2026-06-13T12:56:53+00:00

I have a script that periodically downloads different App Store pages so I can

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I have a script that periodically downloads different App Store pages so I can easily keep an eye on my app ratings.

It has worked perfectly with a few minor changes over the last couple of years. All of the sudden a couple hours ago my curl call just returns a 0 byte response. I assume Apple just made some changes.

Anyone know how to get it working again? It is a major setback for me not to be able to keep an eye on my app ratings. I would be willing to bet they changed the value for the X-Apple-Store-Front but I don’t have any idea how to figure out what they might have changed it to.

Here is what I was using before to get the top-200 selling iPad Photography apps:

curl -H "X-Apple-Store-Front: 143441-1,5" "http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTop?genreId=6008&id=25236&popId=47"
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  1. Editorial Team

    I have faced this same problem while i was working in my application using itunes url through curl. I had this same curl problem and it returns 0 bytes. Everything was working fine in my server except this curl issue. Later i found the solution that apple has changed the urls from http to https in their api calls (for some time). I have fixed the problem by myself just simply changing the urls http://itunes.apple.com to https://itunes.apple.com. So changing the urls might help your problem.

    I have used itunes api look up calls (http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html#lookup)

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