App Store Review Guideline: 12.1 - Integrate Itunes Podcasts

Question

I´m currently checking the App Store Review Guidelines and I´m stuck at "Scraping and aggregation". Guideline 12.1 says

"Apps that scrape any information from Apple sites (for example from apple.com, iTunes Store, App Store, iTunes Connect, Apple Developer Programs, etc.) or create rankings using content from Apple sites and services will be rejected"

I´m parsing information from Itunes to get the playlinks, artwork-urls and titles of specific podcasts to integrate them in my own player in my app. I have a label saying that this content is provided by Itunes. Does this offend the rule mentioned above? My app also has plenty of other functionalities so its NOT just a duplication of the "Podcast"-app. But I guess it would be a "scraping" right? Thx.

Answer 1

So you don't get the info from Apple's RSS?

Apple's RSS is the "good" source to show data about albums, play links, etc. The problem exists if you take that information by inspecting their websites.

Here you have some info: https://rss.itunes.apple.com/