Hi all -
The iTunes search API returns a date against (for my situation) albums called "releaseDate", which appears to be a date that is important to iTunes, possibly when the item was released on iTunes. It's definitely NOT the original release date, however.
When you actually look at an album in iTunes, it has the correct, original release date in the details.
The Enterprise Partner Feed Relational (https://affiliate.itunes.apple.com/resources/documentation/itunes-enterprise-partner-feed/) has two different dates available:
- original_release_date - Date of album release date in “yyyy mm dd” format.
- itunes_release_date - Release date in iTunes in “yyyy mm dd” format.
This looks ideal, but no good for a new app, as to get access to that feed you have to have "proof of being active with the affiliate program". So that's a bit of a blocker...
Is there anyway to either :
1. Get the original_release_date from iTunes Search API (for example by giving a list of fields I want returned)
2. Get access to EPR Relational without being an existing affiliate.
Thanks!