App Store – Krunk4Ever! https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog After eliminating all other possibilities, the one remaining-no matter how unlikely-must be the truth. Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:05:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 Direct Links to Apple’s iTunes App Store Categories https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2013/09/18/direct-links-to-apples-itunes-app-store-categories/ https://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/2013/09/18/direct-links-to-apples-itunes-app-store-categories/#respond Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:05:32 +0000 http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog/?p=4483 Continue reading "Direct Links to Apple’s iTunes App Store Categories"

]]> If you ever wanted to post a direct link that opens to an App Store category on iTunes, you’ve probably ran into a bit of trouble. If you right click and copy the link from an app’s category, you’d probably end up somewhere like: https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-games/id6014?mt=8

No problem when you try opening it from a iOS device, but if you open that link on a computer browser, you’ll most definitely be disappointed.

You can change https:// to itmss:// and if the protocol is registered, it’ll open up on iTunes. But Facebook and Twitter don’t really treat itmss links correctly. Facebook redirects to http:// and Twitter doesn’t even linkify it.

I have gone on a quest to find the regular http links that’ll open App Store categories and I have found the following. Basically what you’ll need is the MZStore.woa API which calls viewGrouping and figure out what the group id is.

Unfortunately I didn’t look far enough to figure out some of the newer categories: Books, Catalogs, Food & Drink, Medical, Newsstands

So if you know the direct links to the newer categories, feel free to post it in the comments below and I’ll update my post.

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