Unable to search in iTunes Store on iOS8 - ios

Question

I'm using this code to open iTunes Store app and search for specific music:
NSString *iTunesLink = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://search.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?entity=album&media=all&page=1&restrict=true&startIndex=0&term=TERM_NAME"];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:iTunesLink];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
Code works fine on iOS7, by changing TERM_NAME value I can search whatever I want. The issue on iOS8 is that somehow search term is appended and prepended by ( " ) symbols. I'm using log to check what's the value of my NSURL but it looks fine.

Answer 1

This code worked for me:
NSString *artist = #"artist";
NSString *title = #"title";
NSOperationQueue *operationQueue = [NSOperationQueue new];
NSString *baseURLString = #"https://itunes.apple.com/search";
NSString *searchTerm = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %#", artist, title];
NSString *searchUrlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#?media=music&entity=song&term=%#&artistTerm=%#&songTerm=%#", baseURLString, searchTerm, artist, title];
searchUrlString = [searchUrlString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#" " withString:#"+"];
searchUrlString = [searchUrlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *searchUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:searchUrlString];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:searchUrl];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:operationQueue completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse* response, NSData* data, NSError* error)
{
if (error)
{
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}
else
{
NSError *jsonError = nil;
NSDictionary *dict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&jsonError];
if (jsonError)
{
NSLog(#"JSON Error: %#", jsonError);
}
else
{
NSArray *resultsArray = dict[#"results"];
if(resultsArray.count == 0)
{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"917xfm" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"No results returned."] delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
});
}
else
{
NSDictionary *trackDict = resultsArray[0];
NSString *trackViewUrlString = trackDict[#"trackViewUrl"];
if (trackViewUrlString.length)
{
NSURL *trackViewUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:trackViewUrlString];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:trackViewUrl];
});
}
}
}
}
}];