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I am looking for as large as possible list of app names. The app names can be iOS or Android, does not really matter.

The data is needed for a machine learning solution that requires large number of training examples. I can harvest manually a couple of hundreds but that is not enough.

Spent some time searching on the web and could not find any. Perhaps this information is classified but I wonder why.

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  • classified? iOS is a walled-garden that denies web access....so web searching most likely is not going to help. – albert May 23 '15 at 02:39
  • I put 2 answers here that may be of interest: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/q/4638/1511 – philshem May 23 '15 at 17:31

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F-Droid is a repository of Android apps.
All data is open source and freely reusable, including app names.

The app names can be extracted from the XML file https://f-droid.org/repo/index.xml by filtering on <name> tags.

I just extracted them for you, there are currently 1539 app names, here they are:
https://gist.github.com/nicolas-raoul/b20677ebcf6a39ca3ba2

F-Droid

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There is one public access MySQL Database that hosts a large number of records about iOS apps: StatsiOS

After little of cleaning I could obtain 1.98M unique app names!

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There are available Databases and Crawlers for both Android and iOS app stores

Google Play Apps Crawler

The main idea of this project is to gather/mine data about apps of the Google Play Store and build a rich database so that developers, android fans and anyone else can use to generate statistics about the current play store situation

Apple Store Apps Crawler

A simple, scalable scrapper for apps data being listed on Apple's AppStore

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