Script for grabing AppStore review based on official Apple RSS feed. Work on Python 2.7 This script is an adaptation of _appreview.py script that was a pythonista (quick and dirty) test script. You might want to know that Apple official feed is bugged and review greater than page 10 does not appears (If I remember well). The best is to grab it f…

_appreviews-no-pythonista.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python2.7

# Desktop version of pythonista script (no console usage nor clipboard)
# Script name: getreviews.py
# Author: Olivier HO-A-CHUCK
# License (OHO Ware): free to use modify, alter, re-use for commercial use or not! :)
# Date: Nov. 15th 2012 
# Usage: _appreviews.py <appID>
# exemple: _appreviews.py 308816822

import json
import urllib2
import re
#import console
#import clipboard
import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
  appID = '530524743' #overblog
else:
	appID = sys.argv[1]

url = 'http://itunes.apple.com/fr/rss/customerreviews/id=' + appID + '/sortby=mostrecent/json'

#console.clear()
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
content = response.read()
data = json.loads(content.decode("utf8"))
text	 = ''
print("Application ID: " + appID)
text += "Application ID: " + appID + "\n"
lastUpdate = data['feed']['updated']['label']
print("last comments update: " + lastUpdate)
text += "last comments update: " + lastUpdate + "\n\n"
lastPage = data['feed']['link'][3]['attributes']['href']
#print(lastPage)
nbPages = int(re.findall(r".*page=(\d*)/.*", lastPage)[0])
print("Theoritical number of pages: " + str(nbPages))
maxPages = nbPages
maxPages = maxPages if nbPages < 10 else 10
print("Using " + str(maxPages) + " pages ...\n\n");

i = 0
page = 1
while page < maxPages+1:
#while page < int(nbPages)+1:
	urlPos = re.sub("customerreviews","customerreviews/page="+str(page),url)
	response = urllib2.urlopen(urlPos)
	content = response.read()
	data = json.loads(content.decode("utf8"))
	if len(data['feed']['entry']) == 11:	# if script does not work anymore, check if this is still true!
		page += 1
		continue
	for entryIndex in data['feed']['entry']:
		if i == 0:
			i = 1
			continue
		#print(str(i) + ": " + entryIndex['title']['label'])
		version = entryIndex['im:version']['label']
		rating = entryIndex['im:rating']['label']
		title = entryIndex['title']['label']
		author = entryIndex['author']['name']['label']
		content = entryIndex['content']['label']
		print(str(page) +"."+ str(i) + ": " + "("+ version +") "+ rating + "* [" + author + "] " + title)
		text += str(page) +"."+ str(i) + ": " + "("+ version +") "+ rating + "* [" + author + "] " + title + "\n"
		print(content+"\n--")
		text += content+"\n--\n"
		i += 1
	page += 1
	i = 0
	
#clipboard.set(text)

Note that the Apple feeds are pretty harshly rate-limited. You can get your IP banned pretty quickly for looping through feeds like this. If you are just looking to get all your reviews in one big feed (for all countries/apps), try an review manager like Review Command