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copied!<p>There are hundreds of services like the one you mention... but building your own scraper is not difficult..</p> <p>Let’s say you want to see all reviews in the UK for the application with id=xxxxxxxxx (right click on iTunes on the application link and select "Copy Link"). You should retrieve the file:</p> <p><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/customerReviews?s=143444&id=xxxxxxxxx&displayable-kind=11" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/customerReviews?s=143444&id=xxxxxxxxx&displayable-kind=11</a></p> <p>If you put this URL in your browser, you won’t be able to see the same amount of information you would see with iTunes. It might also be that you cannot see anything at all, and your browser will ask to open iTunes. Still, the URL above is the same visited by iTunes –only iTunes asks for it in a slightly different way a web browser would do. To do this, you can use cURL, a command you have by default on most GNU/Linux distributions, but you can also install on Windows.</p> <ol> <li><p>If you are on Windows, and do not have cURL installed, download it (<a href="http://curl.haxx.se/download.html" rel="noreferrer">http://curl.haxx.se/download.html</a>), unzip it, and add the bin directory to the PATH variable (<a href="http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm" rel="noreferrer">http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm</a>);</p></li> <li><p>Open a terminal window (META+R, digit CMD);</p></li> </ol> <p>Once you have cURL installed, both on Windows and *nix, cut and paste in your terminal:</p> <p>curl -H 'Host: itunes.apple.com' -H 'Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50' -H 'X-Apple-Store-Front: 143444,5' -H 'X-Apple-Tz: 3600' -U 'iTunes/9.2.1 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5.8) AppleWebKit/533.16' '<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/customerReviews?s=143444&id=xxxxxxxxx&displayable-kind=11" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/customerReviews?s=143444&id=xxxxxxxxx&displayable-kind=11</a>'</p> <p>You should see now the actual XML file seen by iTunes, with all reviews.</p>

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