StoreClient is a Portable Class Library that will allow you to acces the data used in the Windows Phone Store app. Allowing you to search for music (albums, artists) and apps. The client also gives you methods for getting the image URLs needed to display the same images that the Store app uses.
My own licence for this is use it as much as you want, do what you want, just create awesome stuff with it, got that!
Installing this can be done through nuget, just use the following command:
Install-Package StoreClient -pre
Usage is very simple and uses the async/await methodology.
A simple search:
var client = new StoreApiClient();
var results = await client.SearchAsync("The Dark Knight", includeArtists: false, includeTracks: false);Getting an album's image URL:
var client = new StoreApiClient();
var url = client.CreateAlbumArtUrl("534be700-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");Get an app's icon (the one that appears in the store):
var client = new StoreApiClient();
var url = var url = client.CreateAppImageUrl("490f05d0-ee29-4f5f-b5c9-66b48c6f63a2", ImageType.IconLarge);- If you want, you can pass in your own implementation of an
HttpMessageHandlerwhen you create your instance ofStoreApiClient, however, by default, one is used and has compression turned on. - You can also change what country the store searches by setting the
Localeproperty ofStoreApiClient.
Sort of, it doesn't really do much yet though, will build it up a wee bit though.
I hope so. See what the future holds.
0.3.0.0 - Updated to use the latest version of HttpClient that supports automatic compression.
0.2.4.0
- Added support for searching the Windows Phone 7 app store and get app listings specific for that version of the OS. This is set using the
WindowsPhoneStoreproperty.
0.2.3.0
- Added the WindowsPhone81 ClientType enum
0.2.2.0
- Fixes for return types that have no entries in them
- Added WindowsPhone70 to the ClientType enum
0.2.1.0
- Added the
IStoreApiClientinterface to allow developers to more easily create design time data when using something like MVVM Light.
0.2.0.0 Added the following methods:
GetAppsListAsynclets you get a list of apps with different criteria (like, new apps, apps by category etc)GetAppCategoriesAsyncgets the list of all the app categoriesGetMusicGenresAsyncgets the list of all music genresGetAlbumsByGenreAsyncgets the list of albums for a genreGetArtistsByGenreAsyncgets the list of artists for a genreGetTracksByGenreAsyncgets the list of tracks for a genre based on sort criteria