Search for whether an application is currently in the top 100 apps of any category on the Apple App Store.
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 is1477376903
, 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
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# 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")
}