Find out programmatically who rated 5 stars for our iPhone app

Question

I see that many applications say that "if you give a 5-star rating to our application, you will get 1000 coins." The user can use these coins in the downloaded application. I want to implement the same function.

How can we determine who programmatically assigned a 5-star rating to our iPhone app so that we can give them coins as soon as they give the rating?

Answer 1

ITunes does not have an official API, although you can get them in iTunes Connect and applications that clean them (although they can be fragile). ITunes reviews typically display an alias rather than something uniquely identifiable.

So, I think the short answer is you cannot, at least not with 100% reliability. Also, it amazes me as a “game” of a review system that Apple will not approve and may reject your application for a try.

Answer 2

AFAIK. You have no way to verify that a user has rated your application. To rate the application, the user uses his iTunes account, about which you do not have information about the application.

The most likely is that as soon as you click on a bet in the application, you will receive coins. In other words:

"if you give a 5-star rating to our application, you will get 1000 coins"

- just a lie to push ppl to speed 5 ... The correct label could be:

"if you press this button, you will get 1000 coins, but we will really like that you will give us 5 stars" ...

But most ppl will not evaluate the application with this ...