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Mac AppStore support #211
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Apologies for the off-topic, but this may help you and others. You can go to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683 and click on the link for each operating system you want to “backup”. This doesn’t invalidate that it would be nice if the IPATool could download any app type. It is our (the community) job to help figure out the right parameters to use, as it’s easy to figure out the parameters for the mobile apps, via Apple Configurator, but much harder to understand what kind of calls the Mac App Store app is doing underneath the encryption layer. |
I'm well aware of that page, but that is unfortunately inadequate. The requirement of having a compatible Mac is already a big limitation, but backing up the installed app from the file system is just not possible in a clean way. Also you don't need recovery to get rid of it. Just move to /tmp and reboot. |
You are correct. I had to use a Mac mini M1, an Intel, and even a 2011 Intel stuck at High Sierra 10.13 to retrieve all available versions. Moving to /tmp used to work, but maybe something changed on Sonoma as the files were moved into /var/dirs_cleaner/ and never disappeared, even after many reboots. |
I am not sure if that would be possible through the API currently being used by ipatool. The current API originates from an older version of Apple Configurator which was used to install the apps owned by the Apple ID, onto the connected iOS device. mas-cli/mas is closer to what you're looking for but I'm not sure if you're able to obtain the installer package through that tool. |
Hm, I see. The linked project seems to just be using host frameworks to call into the same code as the App Store, and not talk to the API directly. Honestly, I was just hoping that the MAS API would be a mere URL change away or something, or that someone might have looked into this before. |
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Any idea what it would take to support the Mac AppStore?
My primary use case for this is trying to obtain clean IPA copies of the installers for macOS 10.14 and 10.15.
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