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Node.js module to download user reviews from the iTunes Store and the Mac App Store

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⚠️⚠️ **This repository is no longer maintained. You may want to use [jcoynel/app-store-reviews-swift](https://github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews-swift) instead.** ⚠️⚠️

## About app-store-reviews

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Node.js module to download user reviews from the iTunes Store and the Mac App Store.

It supports:

* All countries
* All apps on the iTunes Store
* All apps on the Mac App Store

This module uses the public feed to customer reviews

https://itunes.apple.com/rss/customerreviews/page=1/id=555731861/sortby=mostrecent/xml?l=en&cc=us

## Installation
app-store-reviews is available via the npm packet manager.

```bash
$ npm install app-store-reviews
```

## Usage
You can find all the following examples in the [examples](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/) folder.

### Example 1: single app and country
In this example we simply print the reviews of [Tunes Notifier](http://www.tunes-notifier.com) to the console from the **US Store**. The ID of the app is **555731861**.

#### Code
```js
var appStoreReviewsModule = require('app-store-reviews');
var appStoreReviews = new appStoreReviewsModule();

appStoreReviews.on('review', function(review) {
	console.log(review);
});

appStoreReviews.getReviews('555731861', 'us', 1);
```

#### Output
```bash
[ id: '676984080',
  app: '555731861',
  author: 'appwatching',
  version: '1.1',
  rate: '5',
  title: 'Very good',
  comment: 'Mucho mejor ahora. Ya se puede esconder el icono de la barra de menús.',
  vote: '0',
  updated: '2012-10-19T12:48:41-07:00',
  country: 'us' ]
```

### Example 2: import to a database for all countries
In this example we store the reviews in a MySQL database.

You can find the structure of the database in [examples/reviews-to-mysql.sql](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/reviews-to-mysql.sql)

#### Code
```js
var appStoreReviewsModule = require('app-store-reviews');
var appStoreReviews = new appStoreReviewsModule();

var mysql = require('mysql');

function mysqlConnection()
{
	var db = mysql.createConnection ({
		user : 'root',
	    password : 'root',
	    host : "localhost",
	    database : "reviews",
	    port : "3306"
	});

return db;
}

function insertReviewInDb(id, app, author, version, rate, title, comment, country, updated)
{
	var review = {
		id: id,
		app: app,
		author: author,
		version: version,
		rate: rate,
		title: title,
		comment: comment,
		country: country,
		review_date: updated,
	}

var db = mysqlConnection();
	db.connect();
	db.query('INSERT IGNORE INTO reviews SET ?', review);
	db.end();
}

appStoreReviews.on('review', function(review) {
	insertReviewInDb(review['id'], review['app'], review['author'], review['version'], review['rate'], review['title'], review['comment'], review['country'], review['updated']);
});

appStoreReviews.on('nextPage', function(nextPage) {
	appStoreReviews.getReviews(nextPage['appId'], nextPage['country'], nextPage['nextPage']);
});

console.log("Starting reviews-to-mysql.js at " + Date());
var db = mysqlConnection();
db.connect();
db.query('SELECT * FROM apps WHERE enabled=1', function(err, rows, fields) {
	if (err) {
		console.log("DB error: " + err);
	} else {
		for (var index in rows) {
			console.log("App: " + rows[index].id + " - " + rows[index].name);
			
			var countries;
			if (rows[index].countries == null || rows[index].countries == "") {
				countries = appStoreReviews.allCountries();
			} else {
				countries = rows[index].countries.split(',');
				console.log(countries);
			}
			
			for (var countryIndex in countries) {
				appStoreReviews.getReviews(rows[index].id, countries[countryIndex], 1);
			}
		}
	}
});
db.end();
```

### Example 3: automatically email new reviews
In this example we store the reviews in a MySQL database and send the new reviews by email periodically using Cron.

You can find the structure of the database in [examples/reviews-to-mysql.sql](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/reviews-to-mysql.sql).

* In a directory, copy the following files
 * [examples/reviews-to-mysql.js](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/reviews-to-mysql.js)
 * [examples/mysql-to-email.js](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/mysql-to-email.js)
 * [examples/reviews-to-email.sh](https://raw.github.com/jcoynel/app-store-reviews/master/examples/reviews-to-email.sh)

* Install the required Node.js modules
```bash
$ npm install app-store-reviews
$ npm install mysql
$ npm install nodemailer
```

* In **reviews-to-mysql.js**, configure your database connection details.

* In **mysql-to-email.js**, configure your database connection details and email address and password.

* In **reviews-to-email.sh**, set the path to the directory containing this file.

* Make **reviews-to-email.sh** executable: `chmod +x reviews-to-email.sh`

* Add **reviews-to-email.sh** to Cron
 * Edit the current crontab: `$ crontab -e`
 * Add the following line (run every day at 12): `0 12 * * * /EXAMPLE/PATH/reviews-to-email.sh`

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