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").
I tried several ways but none is reliable.
There is a list of apps at http://iphoneapplicationlist.com/apps/ipad/ but the list stops at November 2012. Also apple provides a search list at https://itunes.apple.com/us/genre/ios-education/id6017?mt=8 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 :-) ).
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.