title: Getting global list of all ios apps
body: <p>i want to do some global statistics on the apple app store. One bottleneck is getting getting at least the ids (these 9 digit numbers) of all currently active apps. Does anyone know a way to get a complete list of all ids of currently active apps on the iOS app store. Even better all ids of a specific category (say "education"). </p>
  
  <p>I tried several ways but none is reliable.</p>
  
  <p>There is a list of apps at <a href="http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/apps/ipad/" rel="nofollow">http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/apps/ipad/</a> but the list stops at November 2012. Also apple provides a search list at <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8</a> but this list turns out to be incomplete. (If I compare it with the other list there are more than 8000 apps missing, In particular my own one :-) ).</p>
  
  <p>So my qeustion is: provided one can oneself do some php and javascript programming is there a good way of getting all app ids of all apps. </p>