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<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately I didn’t look far enough to figure out some of the newer categories: Books, Catalogs, Food & Drink, Medical, Newsstands<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n