Hi,

if i try to connect to the MAS with a password containing a special character i have to mask it, to get in.

For example:

mas signin MyUsername My!Password does not work, but ...

mas signin MyUsername My\!Password will sign me in.

Thanx in advance.

Kind regards
Efty

If i try to install LanScan or Pocket (both free apps) i get ukendt fejl (unknown error in danish).

Most apps run remotely via Apple Remote Desktop return the standard output to ARD. This app does not. I was hoping to deploy this on all my systems and use ARD to send a "mas outdated" command but nothing comes back.

I'm getting the following error running mas.

dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/StoreFoundation
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/mas
Reason: image not found
zsh: trace trap mas list

Can mas be built without storefoundation?

Thanks

When I run mas list I get no output, even though I have a few Mac app store apps installed:

However, other mas commands work like mas upgrade and mas search:

Is it required that I download apps with mas install for them to show up with mas list? If not, this may be an issue with Mac Sierra which I am on.

mas install 406056744
Didn't downloaded yet

"This redownload is not available for this Apple ID either because it was bought by a different user of the item was refunded or cancelled." Any way to fix this?

[1] 747 illegal hardware instruction mas install 406056744

Many expats including myself have multiple Apple accounts from multiple country app stores.

There is no easy way Apple provides us to update our apps. The App Store app keeps asking to login again and again to different app stores which makes it impossible to automate it. (automator maybe?)

Any chance such a function to be included here?

Kind regards,
Tony

Hi,

Just curious to know what happens if I install paid app that I haven't purchased yet ? is there some kind of warning that says I will be charged ?. Compare to apps that you have paid for already ?

thanks

The current functionality doesn't allow for an update of Xcode's Command Line Tools. There isn't an update feature from the installer xcode-select so you have to use the App Store to do so.

Command Line Tools also don't show up in man list so there isn't a way to download them manually as far as I can tell.

Not sure if it's possible, but it would be awesome to have a mas info type command to get more details about the package/id. (similar to homebrew)

⇒  brew info mas
mas: stable 1.2.0 (bottled)
Mac App Store command-line interface
https://github.com/argon/mas
/usr/local/Cellar/mas/1.2.0 (4 files, 6.1M) *
  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/mas.rb

mas info 123456
mas info Some App Name Here

If possible, maybe the app name, short description, link to the full appstore page, and whether it's installed or not?

Edit: Looks like the itunes lookup api would provide the required bits of info for this:

Eg. https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=886106985

Useful Sounding Keys: kind, features, supportedDevices (filter for OSX), advisories (maybe), fileSizeBytes, averageUserRatingForCurrentVersion, userRatingCountForCurrentVersion, trackContentRating, trackCensoredName, trackViewUrl, contentAdvisoryRating, minimumOsVersion, formattedPrice, wrapperType, version, currency, artistId, artistName, genres, price, description, trackName, trackId, bundleId, releaseDate, primaryGenreName, currentVersionReleaseDate, releaseNotes, sellerName, averageUserRating, userRatingCount

Other Keys: screenshotUrls, ipadScreenshotUrls, appletvScreenshotUrls, artworkUrl512, artistViewUrl, artworkUrl60, artworkUrl100, isGameCenterEnabled, languageCodesISO2A, isVppDeviceBasedLicensingEnabled, primaryGenreId, genreIds

As one possible example:

trackCensoredName: version [currency price or formattedPrice] (genres)
By artistName(or sellerName)
description(limit length to something reasonable)...
Current Rating: averageUserRatingForCurrentVersion, Overall Rating: averageUserRating
sellerUrl
Released: currentVersionReleaseDate
Min OS: minimumOsVersion(could check this against system)
Size: fileSizeBytes(calculated to a pretty value)
From: trackViewUrl

Hi @argon, thanks for the great project ❤️

I've tried to build HEAD with Xcode 7.3.1 (Swift 2.x) and stumbled across multiple compiler errors inside ./Seeds/Curry/Source/Curry.swift — this library has been already migrated to Swift 3.0 while mas isn't there yet (#33).

The problem is that in your Seedfile you don't pin thoughtbot/Curry dependency to any tag but use "master" (aka HEAD) reference instead. I suggest that you'll choose a correct tag that supports Swift 2.x (e.g. tag "v.2.2.0" works great for me) until mas’s codebase is upgraded properly.

Thanks again for your work and have a great day!

Don't see iTunes in the outdated list and thus cannot update it. I'm currently have iTunes 12.5.1 and AppStore suggests to update it to 12.5.2.

I guess this is somehow related to the fact that I actually didn't get iTunes via AppStore, it was rather preinstalled. But I couldn't find any info about that in docs or issues, so I wonder if this is true.

FYI, mas version: 1.3.1, macOS: 10.12.1

On Mavericks it crashes with:
mas signin [email protected] "**********"
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/StoreFoundation
Referenced from: /Users/frasc/./mas
Reason: image not found
Trace/BPT trap: 5

Is it possible to get it to work on older OS versions ?

Thanks a lot, that's an awesome idea!

Just wondering if this is compatible with Apple Remote Desktop? I can't seem to get the mas commands to work properly when I push a unix command via ARD.

This isn't a bugreport as much as a "hey, look what I found".

If I ssh in to a remote mac (as an admin-enabled user), I can install and run mas, signin and list applications. If I on the other hand start a tmux session and try running mas there, I get errors like this:

$ mas list
Illegal instruction: 4
$ mas account
Not signed in
$ mas signin [email protected] "<password>"
==> Signing in to Apple ID: [email protected]
The operation couldn’t be completed. (MASErrorDomain error 6.)
$ 

Outside of tmux, things work fine. I've not been able to work out what differs between the regular ssh environment and the tmux one, but something happens with tmux that prevents mas from working properly.

I don't know if this is a bug or if it's just not implemented yet. When I run mas install 12345678, it starts downloading immediately, even if the app is already installed.

I install by command brew install mas, and get this error.

OS Version: 10.10.5
Xcode Version: 7.2.1 (7C1002)
Homebrew Version: 1.0.4

Is there any way I can install this under Xcode 8.0?

How is it possible to uninstall packages with this cli tool?
Is this something, which could be developed?

This would allow multiple applications to be installed more concisely when setting up a new machine. The syntax is offered by other package managers like Homebrew and RubyGems.

Current syntax: mas install 1234 && mas install 2345 && mas install 3456
Suggested syntax: mas install 1234 2345 3456

I'm running mas over ssh to several machines to automate install of mas apps. Different machines may be signed into different mas accounts, and the apps each one has purchased may be different.

Currently attempting to install an app that's not "purchased" blocks the mas tool. Also not being logged in blocks the tool. Blocks in the sense a dialog would normally pop up when running locally on the machine, but remotely over ssh there is no way to interact with dialog boxes popped up by the Apple MAS app.

The following, which may or may not be possible, would make proper automation possible:

• A command to have mas list all purchased (available apps) for the logged in user account
• mas should return an error and quit if an app is not available (not purchased)
• mas should return an error and quit if user is not logged into the store yet

Some apps provide additional functionality/pro features as an in-app purchase. Usually the app has a menu item or button in preferences to restore the in-app purchase when the app is reinstalled on a different machine.

Not sure this is possible to do (might be app-specific) but would be great.

mas is working great for me currently with the features it provides.

Would it be possible to add the ability to search and install by name, e.g. mas search "Degrees Weather" or mas install "Degrees Weather"

The application ID can be looked up using a URL call:

https://itunes.apple.com/search?entity=macSoftware&term=OneDrive&attribute=allTrackTerm

Which will return a JSON response with matches, including the trackId which is the applications ID number.

Reference: http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html

(Related to #60)

As of right now, search results look like this:

$ mas search Tweetbot
557168941 Tweetbot for Twitter

I think search results should display the price of an app as well, like this:

$ mas search Tweetbot
> 557168941 ($9.99) Tweetbot for Twitter

Just wanted to say thanks for mas. I just added it to my workstation configuration over at https://github.com/cweagans/workstation and this is really useful for those apps that brew cask can't handle.

This is really really awesome. Thank you!

Need to upgrade just one app instead all list which return mas outdated

It should be mas upgrade -a iMovie

When sign in on Travis, mas signin is failed with exit code 6 and with message Error switching storefront, see https://travis-ci.org/cybertk/vagrant-box-osx#L257.

But actually, mas signin is succeed as mas account returns valid account.

Most mas commands do not work inside of a tmux session.

Repro

1. Open a terminal and observe that mas works correctly

$ mas list
2. Install tmux if needed

$ brew install tmux
3. Start new tmux session

$ tmux new -smas-repro
4. Run mas and observe different results

$ mas list

Output

$ mas list
No installed apps found

Thinking about being able to specify mac app store apps in my Brewfile and have them be installed as part of brew bundle.

Due to new work commitments I am no longer permitted to publish code to, or participate in, the mas project. Therefore I am seeking a maintainer to take good care of it and ensure it remains a useful project.

Please DM me via Twitter (@argon) or send an email to the address on my GH profile if you wish to take it over. If you do take it over, please follow these rules:

• Do not claim to be the original author, so the license should retain my name, but feel free to add yourself to it once you have made any substantial contributions. Please keep my name and Twitter handle intact in the README - but you can move it around as you see fit.
• If at any point in the future, you want to stop maintaining the project:
  • If you find someone else to takeover the project, please ensure they will continue following these rules.
  • If you cannot find anyone to take it over, please add an unmainted badge (see here) to the README and transfer the project back to my GitHub account (@argon). That will allow me to find a new maintainer myself or to at least keep the project available for historical purposes.
• My GitHub account (@argon) should continue to be one of the owners of the project, but you will have full control over its future direction.

When bootstrapping a new computer, I need to go to the Mac App Store to download the apps I need from there. It would be great if I could maintain a list of apps to install via mas list, and then run something like mas install mas-apps.txt on a new computer to ensure that all required apps are installed.

Instead of:

❯ mas outdated
747648890 Telegram (1.90)
557168941 Tweetbot for Twitter (2.1)

❯ mas install 747648890
==> Downloading Telegram
==> Installed Telegram

❯ mas install 557168941
==> Downloading Tweetbot for Twitter
==> Installed Tweetbot for Twitter

just something like ...

❯ mas upgrade
The following applications are outdated: Telegram (1.90), Tweetbot for Twitter (2.1)
==> Downloading Telegram
==> Installed Telegram
==> Downloading Tweetbot for Twitter
==> Installed Tweetbot for Twitter

entering "mas signin [email protected] "password" does not return an error. But when attempting to run "mas install 123456" the MAS GUI pops up. Is signin not happening?

$ mas signin
$ mas install 715768417

opens the appstore dialog, i enter the password, click 'buy'

returns: Unknown Error.

It's a terrible design for passing raw password as an argument.
Your password will be stored in .bash_history.
Use read -s instead.

To sign into the Mac App Store for the first time run mas signin.

$ mas signin [email protected] "ZdkM4f$gzF;gX3ABXNLf8KcCt.x.np"
==> Signing in to Apple ID: [email protected]

When signing in with a new registered Apple ID which has not been used for Apple Store, mas complains with Unknown Error.

$ mas signin "[email protected]" "password"
==> Signing in to Apple ID: [email protected]
Unknown Error.

Not sure if this is possible, but it would be nice to see update notes when listing apps under the "outdated" command so I'm not just blind updating my apps.

Hello - does your app allow people to find out which apple id an app was installed with?

In a company environment, sometimes upgrades are a pain, because different apple Ids were used.

I'm looking for a way to run a script on a computer, to get a list of the MAS apps, but showing which apple id was used for the install.

Is such a think possible, would you happen to know?

mas hang up when installing Install OS X El Capitan_10.11 with mas install 1018109117. Meanwhile, there's a dialog "Redownload Unavailable with This Apple ID" popped up with in MAS.

After close the dialog, mas exit with Unknown error.

Hi
I seem to be having issue where mas things I am not signed in, however when I try signing in I get

❯ mas signin [email protected]
==> Signing in to Apple ID: [email protected]
Password:
Error: Sign in failed: The operation couldn’t be completed. (mas.MASError error 1.)

but when I try installing with mas I get

mas install  715768417

Error: Not signed in

[ERROR] failed to install  715768417

also if I open app store, I am showing as been signed in as I can download software and update.

thanks

I also had the problem described elsewhere: needed to run mas signout first in order to do a correct mas signin. (Also did a reboot beforehand to be sure, and also set to "save password" for free downloads in the App Store PrefPane.)

Now there's a different problem: updates are available at the MAS, but mas outdated is showing nothing at all; and the "outdated" option is the primary reason for me to use mas.

System: 10.11.4
Installed with: brew install argon/mas/mas

mas will be more powerful if it supports App Store login, maybe with mas login $APPLE_ID $PASSWORD

Is there a mas command to uninstall App Store Apps? When I trash an app from the App Store, I am unable to use mas install to re-install the application. I get a "Warning: App Name is already installed" and running "mas list" shows the app minus the version number. Is there a way to clear this app from the mas list?

==> Downloading https://github.com/argon/mas/archive/v1.2.0.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/kaczmarzyktomasz/Library/Caches/Homebrew/mas-1.2.0.tar.gz
==> gem install bundler
==> script/bootstrap
==> xcodebuild -project mas-cli.xcodeproj -scheme mas-cli -configuration Release
Last 15 lines from /Users/kaczmarzyktomasz/Library/Logs/Homebrew/mas/03.xcodebuild:
guard let updates = updateController.availableUpdates() where updates.count > 0 else {
^
?
/tmp/mas-20160623-1006-1p3ul22/mas-1.2.0/mas-cli/Commands/Version.swift:15:21: error: 'NSBundle' has been renamed to 'Bundle'
let plist = NSBundle.mainBundle().infoDictionary
^~~~~~~~
Bundle

** BUILD FAILED **

The following build commands failed:
CompileSwift normal x86_64
CompileSwiftSources normal x86_64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
(2 failures)

READ THIS: https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting
If reporting this issue please do so at (not Homebrew/brew):
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues

Warning: You are using OS X 10.12.

Fix this asap

$ mas signin [email protected]
Missing argument for Password

a) prompt for password (it used to work this way?)
b) give a file from where to read the password from

mas install only works when running it from a terminal on the intended machine. mas install hangs silently when invoked over SSH. Any idea why?

Hi

It's my first time emailing someone on github, Just what I was looking for, but do you think it's possible to add "Purchased Apps" command.

Regards

As of right now, list results look like this:

$ mas list
441258766 Magnet (1.9.13)
992076693 MindNode (2.4.3)
443987910 1Password (6.3.5)
489094439 iTeleport (6.1.8)

I think list results should display the purchased account of an app as well, like this:

$ mas list
441258766 [email protected] Magnet (1.9.13)
992076693 [email protected] MindNode (2.4.3)
443987910 [email protected] 1Password (6.3.5)
489094439 [email protected] iTeleport (6.1.8)

Hi,
Kudos for the signin/signout commands!

I've encountered the following error on mas help signout.

$ mas help signout
Sign out of the Mac App Store

Illegal instruction: 4

mas_2016-02-21-122638_mb-2014-i.crash.txt

list command

Current output:

409203825 Numbers
847496013 Deckset
1024069033 Veertu
452840086 Receigen
409201541 Pages

Proposed output:

409203825 Numbers (3.6)
847496013 Deckset (1.6.2)
1024069033 Veertu (1.1.4)
452840086 Receigen (3.4.0)
409201541 Pages (5.6)

outdated command

Current output:

409203825 Numbers (3.6.2)
409201541 Pages (5.6.2)

Proposed output:

409203825 Numbers (3.6 -> 3.6.2)
409201541 Pages (5.6 -> 5.6.2)

I'm working on a PR to implement this feature.
Question: Should I hide this feature under a new flag (e.g. --version) or just make it a default behaviour for both commands?