title: Crawling the WP8 Store
body: <p>Last year I wrote a CMS for a client that allowed them to search the Windows Phone Marketplace for WP 7.5 apps and add them to a list for an app they have. To accomplish the search, I was using the Zest XML feed to get the search data back.</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://catalog.zune.net/v3.2/en-US/apps?q=Spotify&amp;clientType=WinMobile%207.1&amp;store=zest
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Calling the above would return an XML response that my code would parse to display the results in the CMS.</p>
  
  <p>This has all worked fine, but now that Windows Phone 8 is out, I am having to update my CMS to allow our client to search for WP8 apps. The problem is I can't simply change the clientType in the URL above to WinMobile 8.0. Doing so returns no results no matter what. I also can't leave off the clientType parameter because that causes it to throw an error.</p>
  
  <p><strong>So my question is: Is it possible to search the Windows Phone Store for WP8 apps using the above method?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Since Windows Phone 8 is so new, I'm not having much luck finding any info on doing this for 8.0 apps. Plenty for 7 and 7.5. It's entirely possible that the Zest feed simply doesn't support 8.0 queries yet, but I'm hoping someone out there knows a way to do it.</p>
  
  <p>It's not an option to leave it as-is (searching only for WP 7.5 apps) because there are some apps that are only available for 7.5 and not 8 or vice-versa. For example, Spotify comes up if you search for 7.5 apps (from the example URL above), but does not come up if you search for 8.0 apps (<a href="http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/search?q=spotify" rel="nofollow">http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/search?q=spotify</a>).</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.</p>