Simple PHP-CLI script to get number of ratings & stars of an app in the AppStore. Takes args from commandline & preset array.

appstore.php

<?php
error_reporting(0);

// Array of appstore ID's to always look up
$idArray = array(
        "428243918",
        "442713833"
);

$arguments = array_merge($idArray, array_slice($argv, 1) );

foreach($arguments as $id) parseID($id);

function parseID($id){
        $data = file_get_contents("http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id" . $id);

        if(!$data) {
                echo "Unknown ID " . $id;
                return;
        }

        // Get title.
        preg_match("/<title>(?P<title>.*?)<\/title>/i", $data, $titleMatches);

        // Get ratings.
        preg_match("/<div class=\'rating\' role='img' tabindex='-1' aria-label='(?P<stars>.*?), (?P<ratings>\d+)\s+Ratings'>/i", $data, $matches);

        echo "{$titleMatches['title']}: {$matches['ratings']} ratings ({$matches['stars']})\n";
}

appstore.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'open-uri'

DEFAULT_IDS = [ "428243918", "442713833" ]

ids = DEFAULT_IDS | ARGV

ids.each do |appstore_id|
  data = open("http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id#{appstore_id}").read
  if data.nil?
    puts "Unknown id #{appstore_id}\n"
  else
    title = %r(<title>(?P<title>.*?)<\/title>).match(data)[:title]
    rating = %r(<div class=\'rating\' role='img' tabindex='-1' aria-label='(?P<stars>.*?), (?P<ratings>\d+)\s+Ratings'>).match(data)
    puts "#{title}: #{rating[:ratings]} ratings " << "(" + ("*" * rating[:stars]) + ")" 
  end
end