I can't open App Installer from Microsoft Store Apps page.

[doggy8088]

I'm at Use the winget tool to install and manage applications page. When I clicked get App Installer from the Microsoft Store link. I always get Not Available for bots to index message.

I checked the URL. It's been redirected from https://www.microsoft.com/p/app-installer/9nblggh4nns1#activetab=pivot:overviewtab to https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/9NBLGGH4NNS1?hl=zh-tw&gl=TW#activetab=pivot:overviewtab.

I actually can remove the ?hl=zh-tw&gl=TW from URL to get it working. But I don't know why I have to that in the URL.

I'm not sure where to report this issue. Hope the Microsoft guys can report this issue to them.

[gyp]

It's not specific to AppInstaller -- we've been seeing the same issue with our own app for the past few days. It seems to be a server-side rate-limiting/caching issue at Microsoft as changing anything in the URL fixes the problem temporarily -- only to get back to the same issue a few hours later. We also found that VPN-ing to some locations (mostly to the US) helped as well. As a temporary solution we ended up adding the timestamp to the link, but that does not seem like a scalable solution to be honest.

We've reached out to our MS contact about this but we haven't heard back yet.

[V3NG3URZ]

thanks for the answer. @gyp DO you have exemple of what type of query do you ad ? i use this kind of links :
"https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/p/qr-code-for-windows-10/9nblggh5m02g"
"https://www.microsoft.com/p/heif-image-extensions/9pmmsr1cgpwg"

thank you

[gyp]

This is what we link to:

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/shapr3d/9N4K9QFV4XFC?gclid=f-3579a28842a7bcac7ba630d698829e9b

Where the "f-...." is a pseudorandom string (basically the md5 hash of the timestamp, but practically anything would do). It's an ugly crude hack, but seems to be working and better than a good percentage of our users going to a dead end.

[V3NG3URZ]

i still got the issue when i add it to my links

[gyp]

I'm sorry to hear that. It worked for us.

As it seems to be something that happens due to a setting on the MS side, I've got zero insight into what's going on so I can't offer you any more tips. I'll make sure to share any info when I hear back from them.

[V3NG3URZ]

no problem thank you for your help