iTunes search api releaseDate - is there another date property somewhere too?

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iTunes search api releaseDate - is there another date property somewhere too?

Hi guys

Are there two release dates in the API? I notice that releaseDate doesn't always match up with what is displayed in iTunes.

For example, an api search in the Great Britain store for Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC, looking at the 'Bloody Tourists' album shows the release date as 2002-07-15T07:00:00Z, yet the store says Sep 1978 (the latter being correct).

https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=dreadlock+holiday&country=GB

Is there another date to access?

Posted on Apr 21, 2013 9:43 PM

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MishaZ

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Apr 30, 2015 2:21 AM in response to shaunapple

I have the same question about the releaseDate.

After investigation I found that lookup API always returns the date of the very first application version release.t

For ex. if we have next versions:

1.0.4.8 released 2013-03-20

1.3.0.1 released 2014-12-31

2.1.0.0 released 2015-04-20

Lookup will return us release date 2013-03-20 for each new release.Is there some way to get the releaseDate of a specific version?

Thanks,

Misha

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