App Annie Status Board

This is a script that generates a downloads graph for Panic's Status Board using the App Annie API. It is based on Tim Brückmann's AppAnnieStatusBoard. I'll keep his installation steps (just adapted to the needs of my version) in here to make the installation easier. If you like it thank Tim, not me. I just adapted a few lines. ;-)

Installation

1. Open app_annie_status_board_downloads.rb and adjust the values inside the configuration block to match you're respective install. To find out how to get the app_id see the section below.
2. Open app_annie_status_board_downloads.sh and update its path to the app_annie_status_board_downloads.rb script to match where you've installed it
3. Open de.flohei.appanniestatusboard.downloads.plist and update its ProgramArguments value to match where you are storing the salesboard.sh file you just updated in step 3.
4. Copy de.flohei.appanniestatusboard.downloads.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents
5. Open Termimal and run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.flohei.appanniestatusboard.downloads.plist. This should generate the first version of your json file.
6. Go to Dropbox and get a shareable link for the JSON file that is output and add it to Status Board on your iPad.

Get app_id

To get the app_id you'll need your account_id. If you already got that one read only the second paragraph.

1. Run curl --basic --user <user>:<password> "https://api.appannie.com/v1/accounts?page_index=0" in your Terminal. This will return your account_id along with some other information about your account. <user> and <password> are your appannie.com credentials.

2. Running curl --basic --user <user>:<password> "https://api.appannie.com/v1/accounts/<account_id>/apps" in the Terminal will return all your app's data. One of those fields is the app_id. This is what you want.

Support

Run into an issue? Throw an issue up on GitHub. Better yet, throw up a pull request with a fix. You may also check out my blog post about this script.