Python script to fetch min iOS version of an app directly from App Store

app-min-ios-version-fetcher.py

import requests
import csv
import sys
import pandas

def min_os_ver(app_id):
    print('fetching min os version for app id: ' + str(app_id))
    with requests.get("https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=" + str(app_id)) as r:
        for result in r.json()["results"]:
            return result["minimumOsVersion"]


csv_input_file = sys.argv[1]
csv_output_file = sys.argv[2]

csv_input = pandas.read_csv(csv_input_file)
csv_input['minimum_os_version'] = csv_input['app_identifier'].apply(min_os_ver)
csv_input.to_csv(csv_output_file)

Install

brew install python3
pip3 install pandas
pip3 install requests

Usage

python3 app-min-ios-version-fetcher.py input.csv output.csv

Note: Script requires a CSV input with the application_identifier column.

Sample Input

application_identifier
123
321

Sample Output

application_identifier	minimum_os_version
123	13.0
321	11.0