ITunes U
In May 2007, Apple announced the launch of "iTunes U" via the iTunes Store, which delivers university lectures from top U.S. colleges. With iTunes version 12.7 in August 2017, iTunes U collections became a part of the Podcasts app.
On 10 June 2020, Apple formally announced that iTunes U will be discontinued from the end of 2021
Archiving
There are three main branches of iTunesU which are:
- Beyond Campus
- K12
- University
Each has a list of institutions, each institution can have many courses. It is common for courses in the same institution to share files with other courses in the same institution.
URLs
- Get Institution with list of courses: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/DZR.woa/wa/viewArtist?id={INSTITUTION_ID}
- Get Course Data: https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/LZDirectory.woa/ra/directory/courses/{COURSE_GUID}/feed
The following URL can garner more meta details for organizing, this is the URL used by iTunesU app but requires you to subscribe to the course, then use the cookie to request and get the meta.
https://p1-u.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/LZStudent.woa/ra/feed/{COURSE_GUID}
User Agent
In some cases if you want to pull data from iTunes links you can set the following user agent in your request.
"user-agent", "iTunesU/3.8 iOS/13.3 model/iPad6,7 hwp/s8001 build/17C54 (5; dt:111) iTunesU/3.8"
Archiving Status
TBD