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Could anyone point me in the right direction for downloading app store statistics from: -the Apple App Store -The Android Market -the Amazon AppStore Specifically, I'd like to get the -average selling price of apps -the top selling apps -the distribution of tablets vs. phones, etc. (e.g. how many apps are there for Honeycomb? How many for iPad?) -total number of apps in store -free vs. paid apps I've seen some sites like http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/ and http://www.appbrain.com/stats/ How do these sites get their data? There must be a way to export the whole app store database as a CSV file, or import it to MySQL and run queries. Thanks much for any direction.

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Thanks for your response. On some pages yes, but the error is also happening on pages where it's only called once.

I am having an issue in which fopen randomly generates either timeout or "failed to open stream" errors when trying to get stock quotes from yahoo finance. Here's an example. <b>Warning</b>: fopen(http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=NFLX&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv) [<a href='function.fopen'>function.fopen</a>]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! This issue occurs sporadically; sometimes it's fine, other times it errors out causing the quote to fail. Any ideas on how I can resolve this? Thanks very much.

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Hi all, I'm trying to scrape the contents of a page that is behind a login screen; namely: http://my.mail.ru/apps. Here's my code. It almost works, but doesn't appear to be properly logging in -- I just get a login screen on the url download. Any ideas? Thanks much. Here's my code <?php $ch=login(); $html=downloadUrl('http://my.mail.ru/apps', $ch); echo $html; function downloadUrl($Url, $ch){ curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $Url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://my.mail.ru/cgi-bin/login?noclear=1&page=http%3a%2f%2fmy.mail.ru%2fapps%2f"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "MozillaXYZ/1.0"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); $output = curl_exec($ch); return $output; } function login(){ $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://my.mail.ru/cgi-bin/login?noclear=1&page=http%3a%2f%2fmy.mail.ru%2fapps%2f'); //login URL curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $postData=' page=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.mail.ru%2Fapps%2F &Login=username &Domain=mail.ru &Password=password'; curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt'); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $store = curl_exec ($ch); return $ch; } ?>