import json, httplib, sys

strAppId = ''

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
	print 'Require app id as first argument... exiting.'
	sys.exit(-1)
else:
	strAppId = sys.argv[1]

trackName = ''
releaseDate = ''

conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('itunes.apple.com')
conn.request('GET', '/lookup?id=%s' % strAppId)
res = conn.getresponse()
if res.status == 200:
    strData = res.read()
    dictData = json.loads(strData)
    if dictData['resultCount'] == 1:
        dictResults = dictData['results'][0]
        trackName = dictResults[u'trackName']
        releaseDate = dictResults[u'releaseDate']
conn.close()

print 'App name: ', trackName
print 'Release date:', releaseDate