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Getting App meta-data programatically

dra6onfiredra6onfire Posts: 91Member
edited June 2013 in General Development
Is there any known way to grab the logos, app descriptions, and ratings that are shown in the store and launcher? Version 1 of my combined emulator UI is nearing completion and I would like to honor some requests I have received to include the ouya games and software in the build section in the app. If anyone has any info on this, it would help me out a lot. Thanks.
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  • dra6onfiredra6onfire Posts: 91Member
    I gather no one knows. I submitted a help ticket but I was hoping Piers or someone would be able to chime in and give me some info here.
  • SpoonThumbSpoonThumb Posts: 426Member
    You mean for cross-promoting apps? I think the idea got floated a while back, but guess it slipped down the priorities list

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  • StoicHamsterStoicHamster Posts: 113Member
    There was a website out there that had figured out how to do it. It had a list of every Ouya game and the number of likes, categories, screenshots, etc. It updated every 15 minutes or so, presumably scraping the Ouya site each time.

    I can't seem to find it now, though. Wish I had bookmarked it...
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  • KonajuGamesKonajuGames Posts: 560Member
    The Store uses regular RESTful HTTP calls for all communication.  Issue a GET on a URI and it returns JSON data.

    A list of every app in the Store.

    To get more detail about an app, append the UUID from the "version" field for that app.  For example, the latest version of TowerFall

  • dra6onfiredra6onfire Posts: 91Member
    KonajuGames, you are the bomb
  • SpoonThumbSpoonThumb Posts: 426Member
    What you can't do though is launch the game details screen in OUYA discover from within your own app. That's what I'd like to be able to do.

    Though then it'd be ludicrously easy for people to make their own custom OUYA store apps. I wonder if that'd be a good thing or not?
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