I need to download the icon of an application from the windows phone marketplace. I have the id of the app, and for a WP7 app I was doing so form http://catalog.zune.net/v3.2/en-US/apps/{0}/primaryImage?width=200, where {0} is the app id. This does not seem to work for WP8 apps, and I can't find any way to do it. Is it possible, and if yes - how?
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If I'm understanding correctly, why couldn't you just browse to one of the apps online (i.e. windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/dictionary/…) and then right-click and save it's logo? Or are you trying to access it programatically?
– lhan
@lhan16 Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, I want to access it programmatically. I can do it as you say, but it's just a little more convenient to get the image directly from the marketplace.
– yasen
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It is slightly more complicated for WP8. Given the app id, you need to first get the icon id and then you can get the icon. For example - Angry Birds has app id e4571a02-0b87-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8, so you get the app details on URL http://marketplaceedgeservice.windowsphone.com/v8/catalog/apps/e4571a02-0b87-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8?os=8.0&cc=US&lang=en-US.
You get back an XML response (Atom feed format), look for <image><id> element, which gives you id of the image - urn:uuid:3b32ef92-dba1-4e4f-867a-ee439349f698.
With that in hand, you can get the high quality icon (big size PNG) on http://cdn.marketplaceimages.windowsphone.com/v8/images/3b32ef92-dba1-4e4f-867a-ee439349f698. There are some additional arguments to get a smaller image size in JPG high compression. For example http://cdn.marketplaceimages.windowsphone.com/v8/images/3b32ef92-dba1-4e4f-867a-ee439349f698?hw=469838851&imagetype=icon_small.
