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A while ago, I made a search app using Google Custom Search: https://itunes.apple.com/app/in-app-search/id908073064 https://itunes.apple.com/app/in-app-search/i
by steve_taylor 12y ago
A while ago, I made a search app using Google Custom Search: https://itunes.apple.com/app/in-app-search/id908073064 https://itunes.apple.com/app/in-app-search/id908073064
The URX App Search API certainly looks a lot more promising than Google for this purpose. It's good to see the documentation is public now and I'm sure it won't be long before a large number of apps are using this API.
One question about the app index: It doesn't specify the availability of apps in different operating systems. I have come across a number of apps whose sites have deep link information only for Android or iOS.
Also, it's interesting that IMDb isn't in the list, considering it is one of the most widely cited examples of app deep linking and its complete site index is easily downloaded and you can follow the links to it via /robots.txt.
- jmilinovich 12y agoCEO of URX here- thanks for your excitement Steve! We're definitely big fans of the app you built! Currently we list out the availability of apps in our index by company and not by operating system; we’ll look into providing more detailed information. Regarding IMDb: while the site index may be accessible and their app does have deep links, IMDb has not publicly exposed their deep link structure via meta tags. Currently, we're only indexing sites with these tags, but that will change shortly.