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My goal is to display a table to the user with a list of all of my applications for cross-promotion. I have considered adding my applications (icons, names, descriptions) to a database on my website and accessing the data over the Internet, but I'd rather be able to directly query the App Store. The reasoning is that I will not have up manually update my database each time an update with a new logo is released or a new app released. Is this possible? A search including only my other apps where I can display the information in a table view. Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Furthermore, I have seen ads that link to the app store. When you click on it, an app store scene pops up with a link to download it, but without switching to the actual App Store app. Does this happen automatically through iOS when you link to a specific app, or is this done through code that we write.

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  • The iTunes rss generator would be a good place to start https://itunes.apple.com/rss/generator/ but you might also want to check the app store review guidelines and the rules on building apps using 3rd party data before you start building anything https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ – kye Feb 04 '16 at 18:22
  • Unfortunately the itunes rss generator doesn't allow search queries, it only offers a drop down box with options like "top games" :/ But an rss feed would be a lot like what I'm looking for. – Alec O'Connor Feb 04 '16 at 21:09

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Here is how to link to an app or business's apps: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1633/_index.html

Use this to open app store links without leaving the application that is already open: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/StoreKit/Reference/SKITunesProductViewController_Ref/index.html

This was also helpful: How to link to apps on the app store

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