Scraping Itunes information

[Blaine0002]

So ive figured out how to copy links out of itunes and scrape information using php cURL,

 

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=305974985&mt=8');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

 

but what im trying to do now has me stumped, if you open up itunes and hit browse select a random category, genre, ect, results are displayed on the bottom.

 

how would i go about scraping these results? where are they coming from?

 

Thanks!

[cunoodle2]

When you say "open up Itunes" are you referring to the actual application itself or do you mean something on the website?  If you could be a little more specific I might be able to help.

[Blaine0002]

oops! yeah, run the itunes application, and hit itunes store

 

 

(one of those times where i was unclear yet i knew what i was talking about ^^)

[Blaine0002]

im not sure if it even has a url, when i hit copy link on the browse button i get http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/redirectToBrowse

wonder what its redirecting to...

 

[ccjensen]

I am trying to scrape the itunes movie information. Did you ever manage to get the url/source of the "bottom pane" in iTunes? It's so weird, I have monitored the GET requests going to the apple server, and I have downloaded the source of all the files but they only give the source of the top panes.