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AppStore icon extractor

A requirement from one of my latest projects for the iPhone: needed pixel-perfect versions of some (a lot, actually) of the best apps in the AppStore.

The lazy solution: to code a simple tool which extracts the icon of an app given its ID or iTunes Link and saves it as PNG, making the task hopefully painless.

By the way, the name of the iPhone project I made this tool for was Best Apps, an app that has been already rejected two times by different reasons, including wrong accusations of scrapping. Maybe someday I post the whole story.

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Comments (7)

Nov 02, 2009
Dr. Touch said...
Now that's a useful tool! I was thinking about making something like this myself, but I have not made any Mac apps yet, only iphone. Good work!
Nov 02, 2009
xeleh said...
Thank you! (tip: icon drag and drop supported ;)
Nov 02, 2009
Dr. Touch said...
Sorry to bother you, but it seems that something is not working alright, at least on Snow Leopard. Please fix.
Nov 02, 2009
keyvisuals said...
I'm running Snow Leopard also 10.6.1 and I can't get it to pull an icons ;-( Seems like a great tool though!
Nov 02, 2009
xeleh said...
Thanks to Dr. Touch , who kindly took the time to test and fix some bugs, the tool should now be working in Snow Leopard. Thanks!
Dec 04, 2009
 said...
Good to have a heads-up about scraping. I was considering making an app that scraped some sites for images. Now I know better! I guess it's not as big a deal when it comes to Dashboard widgets. My widget ImagesForever scrapes Google Images results and grabs images from the originating source.
Dec 04, 2009
xeleh said...
Icon Extractor updated (v1.2.2) due to changes in iTunes Link format. Thanks to @derekvanvliet for reporting the problem.

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