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> When you publish something on the internet, people can link to it. That's how the internet works. I think one issue is that Apple themselves prohibit it. Fr
by SyneRyder 8y ago
> When you publish something on the internet, people can link to it. That's how the internet works.
I think one issue is that Apple themselves prohibit it. From their App Store Review Guidelines, section 5.2.2 [1]:
"5.2.2 Third Party Sites/Services: If your app uses, accesses, monetizes access to, or displays content from a third party service, ensure that you are specifically permitted to do so under the service’s terms of use. Authorization must be provided upon request."
And Apple also prohibit you from doing so on parts of their website, from 4.5.1:
"4.5.1 Apps may use approved Apple RSS feeds such as the iTunes Store RSS feed, but may not scrape any information from Apple sites (e.g. apple.com, the iTunes Store, App Store, App Store Connect, developer portal, etc.) or create rankings using this information."
[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#intellectual-property https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#int...
- threeseed 8y agoBeing a little disingenuous there. Scraping != Linking. Scraping involves stealing and reusing content from another party. Linking does not.
- dazmax 8y agoThis shortcut could be seen as scraping the website, since it's just pulling out one image
- JimA 8y agoScraping = save a local copy of the image Linking = point to source image If they are referring to jguitar.com each time then this is linking.
- ryandrake 8y agoI had an app in the AppStore for years that scraped Vonage’s web site and neither them nor Apple seemed to care. There is nothing innately immoral about downloading a web page and parsing it in ways the web site operator did not consider.