http://www.doedoegames.com/blog Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:19:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once a race to produce the most visually realistic titles, today's games industry is courting perhaps the most diverse audience ever — Nintendo's Wii and DS handheld proved just how successful a game publisher can be in targeting this diverse audience, even to the detriment of the competition (witness Electronic ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/evolving-challenges-of-casual-games Last week I started a series of posts detailing how I scraped the iTunes store and how you might do the same for your needs. Today I will add just one last thing and we will call this a wrap. In order to grab the rating for another country's iTunes store, ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/scraping-itunes-finishing-up At this point our script (if you haven't been following along) gives us the xhtml for five images which we can include in our webpage. This works nicely but requires that we name and store our images a certain way. What if we want to use different image names? In a ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/scraping-the-itunes-store-part-4 Today I want to take a look at how to modify our Perl script so that it returns the html we need instead of a number. The current version of our script can be found here. Before I get ahead of myself, I want to mention that we will continue ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/scraping-the-itunes-store-part-3 I finished off my last post by sharing a Perl script which will output the number of stars for an application given the app id. Today I will explain what I hoped to accomplish when I came up with the idea and then the direction in which I ended up ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/scraping-the-itunes-store-part-2 With the release of Bailout America we wanted to find a way to display the game's App Store rating on the website without editing it manually, so we decided to scrape the information from iTunes automatically. I figured if I could pull the number of stars as a numeral I ... http://www.doedoegames.com/blog/scraping-the-itunes-store