appstore-tools

Tools for the AppStore Connect API.

This package provides methods to publish, download, and list information about AppStore meta-data (descriptions, keywords, screenshots, previews, etc). Combined with a deployment workflow (such as github actions), the AppStore meta-data can be tracked and deployed along side the rest of the app's source code and assets.

Install

pip install appstore-tools

Usage

appstore-tools [-h] [--version] action [args]

Examples:

# List all apps under the app store account
appstore-tools apps

# Download the assets for an app
appstore-tools download --bundle-id com.example.myapp --asset-dir myassets

# Publish the assets for an app
appstore-tools publish --bundle-id com.example.myapp --asset-dir myassets

Usage Config

Most actions will require authentication with the AppStore Connect API, as well as specifying which app to target.

All these parameters can be passed via command line argument, but for convenience, they (and any others) can also be loaded from a config file.

Use the default config file path of appstore_tools.config, or specify another with --config-file CONFIG_FILE.

; appstore_tools.config
; sample contents
issuer-id=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
key-id=XXXXXXXXXX
key-file=/home/me/AppStoreConnect_AuthKey_XXXXXXXXXX.p8
bundle-id=com.example.myapp

Code

The actions provided by the command line can also be accessed by import in a python script.

# Import the package
from appstore_tools import appstore, actions

# Get the auth credentials
with open("AuthKey.p8", "r") as file:
    key = file.read()

issuer_id="xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
key_id="XXXXXXXXXX"

# Create an access token
access_token = appstore.create_access_token(
    issuer_id=issuer_id, key_id=key_id, key=key
)

# Call the AppStore connect API
apps = appstore.get_apps(access_token=access_token)

# Or call one of the AppStore-Tools Actions
actions.list_apps(access_token=access_token)

Asset Directory Structure

The download and publish actions look for assets in the following directory structure starting at --asset-dir ASSET_DIR. Screenshots and Previews are sorted alphabetically in the store listing.

To leave an attribute unaffected by the publish action, remove the corresponding text file from the tree. An empty text file can be used to set the attribute to an empty string.

Likewise, to leave the screenshots (or previews) unaffected, remove the entire screenshots folder. If screenshots is present, the publish action will add/remove screenshot-display-types and their screenshots to match.

Additionally, filepaths can be explicitly ignored by setting a regex pattern with --asset-ignore ASSET_IGNORE.

[ASSET_DIR]
└── com.example.myapp
    └── en-US
        ├── description.txt
        ├── keywords.txt
        ├── marketingUrl.txt
        ├── name.txt
        ├── previews
        │   └── IPHONE_65
        │       ├── video.mp4
        │       └── video.mp4.json
        ├── privacyPolicyText.txt
        ├── privacyPolicyUrl.txt
        ├── promotionalText.txt
        ├── screenshots
        │   ├── APP_IPAD_PRO_129
        │   │   ├── 10_Image.png
        │   │   ├── 20_AnotherImage.png
        │   │   └── 30_MoreImages.png
        │   ├── APP_IPAD_PRO_3GEN_129
        │   │   ├── a_is_the_first_letter.png
        │   │   ├── b_is_the_second_letter.png
        │   │   └── c_is_the_third_letter.png
        │   ├── APP_IPHONE_55
        │   │   ├── image01.png
        │   │   ├── image02.png
        │   │   └── image03.png
        │   └── APP_IPHONE_65
        │       ├── image01.png
        │       ├── image02.png
        │       └── image03.png
        ├── subtitle.txt
        ├── supportUrl.txt
        └── whatsNew.txt

Additional attributes for media files can be set by placing a json file with a matching base file name along side the media file. For example, the contents of video.mp4.json (along side video.mp4) could look like this:

{
  "previewFrameTimeCode": "00:00:14:01"
}

Source

Clone the source code

git clone https://github.com/bennord/appstore-tools.git

Install dependencies

poetry install

Run from within project environment

poetry shell
appstore-tools --version