apple-purchase-receipt-verifier

Verify Apple in-app purchases locally — no calls to Apple's servers.

Replaces the deprecated verifyReceipt endpoint by validating StoreKit 2 signed JWS transactions and legacy PKCS#7 receipts against pinned Apple root certificates.

pip install apple-purchase-receipt-verifier

from apple_purchase_receipt_verifier import ReceiptVerifier, JwsVerifier, apple_receipt_roots

# Legacy PKCS#7 app receipt
receipt = ReceiptVerifier(apple_receipt_roots(), "com.example.app").verify(receipt_b64)
print(receipt.receipt_type, len(receipt.in_app_purchases))

# StoreKit 2 signed transaction
transaction = JwsVerifier(apple_jws_roots(), "com.example.app").verify_transaction(jws)
print(transaction.product_id, transaction.expires_date)

The import package is apple_purchase_receipt_verifier; the distribution is apple-purchase-receipt-verifier. Requires Python 3.9+.

Why offline

Signature verification cannot fail because a vendor endpoint is down, so a purchase can be honoured immediately and reconciled against the App Store Server API afterwards. Refunds and revocations still need that reconciliation pass — a signature proves what Apple signed, not what happened since.

This is one of four implementations (Java, Node, Python, Swift) that share a single fixture suite, including Apple's own official test fixtures, and are required to agree byte for byte. See the project README for the full picture and COMPARISON.md for how it differs from Apple's official libraries.

Licence

MIT — see LICENSE.