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spaceship is part of fastlane: connect all deployment tools into one streamlined workflow.
spaceship is a Ruby library that exposes both the Apple Developer Center and the iTunes Connect API. It’s super fast, well tested and supports all of the operations you can do via the browser. Scripting your Developer Center workflow has never been easier!
Up until now, the fastlane tools used web scraping to interact with Apple's web services. With spaceship it is possible to directly access the underlying APIs using a simple HTTP client only.
Using spaceship, the execution time of sigh was reduced from over 1 minute to less than 5 seconds.
spaceship uses a combination of 3 different API endpoints, used by the Apple Developer Portal and Xcode. As no API offers everything we need, spaceship combines all APIs for you. More details about the APIs.
More details about why spaceship is useful on spaceship.airforce.
No matter how many apps or certificates you have, spaceship can handle your scale.
Enough words, here is some code:
Spaceship.login
# Create a new app
app = Spaceship.app.create!(bundle_id: "com.krausefx.app", name: "Spaceship App")
# Use an existing certificate
cert = Spaceship.certificate.production.all.first
# Create a new provisioning profile
profile = Spaceship.provisioning_profile.app_store.create!(bundle_id: app.bundle_id,
certificate: cert)
# Print the name and download the new profile
puts "Created Profile " + profile.name
profile.downloadHow fast are tools using spaceship compared to web scraping?
sudo gem install spaceship
To try spaceship, just run spaceship. It will automatically start the spaceship playground. It makes it super easy to try spaceship 🚀
Open DeveloperPortal.md for code samples
Open iTunesConnect.md for code samples
Most fastlane tools already use spaceship, like sigh, cert, produce, pilot and boarding.
The detailed documentation of all available classes is available on RubyDoc.
You can find the log file here /tmp/spaceship[time].log.
Up until now all fastlane tools used web scraping to interact with Apple's web services. spaceship uses a simple HTTP client only, resulting in much less overhead and extremely improved speed.
Advantages of spaceship (HTTP client) over web scraping:
- Blazing fast 🚀 90% faster than previous methods
- No more overhead by loading images, HTML, JS and CSS files on each page load
- Great test coverage by stubbing server responses
- Resistant against design changes of the Apple Developer Portal
- Automatic re-trying of requests in case a timeout occurs
I won't go into too much technical details about the various API endpoints, but just to give you an idea:
https://idmsa.apple.com: Used to authenticate to get a valid sessionhttps://developerservices2.apple.com:- Get a detailed list of all available provisioning profiles
- This API returns the devices, certificates and app for each of the profiles
- Register new devices
https://developer.apple.com:- List all devices, certificates, apps and app groups
- Create new certificates, provisioning profiles and apps
- Disable/enable services on apps and assign them to app groups
- Delete certificates and apps
- Repair provisioning profiles
- Download provisioning profiles
- Team selection
https://itunesconnect.apple.com:- Managing apps
- Managing beta testers
- Submitting updates to review
- Manaing app metadata
https://du-itc.itunesconnect.apple.com:- Upload icons, screenshots, trailers ...
spaceship uses all those API points to offer this seamless experience.
spaceship does a lot of magic to get everything working so neatly:
- Sensible Defaults: You only have to provide the mandatory information (e.g. new provisioning profiles contain all devices by default)
- Local Validation: When pushing changes back to the Apple Dev Portal
spaceshipwill make sure only valid data is sent to Apple (e.g. automatic repairing of provisioning profiles) - Various request/response types: When working with the different API endpoints,
spaceshiphas to deal withJSON,XML,txt,plistand sometimes evenHTMLresponses and requests. - Automatic Pagination: Even if you have thousands of apps, profiles or certificates,
spaceshipcan handle your scale. It was heavily tested by first usingspaceshipto create hundreds of profiles and then accessing them usingspaceship. - Session, Cookie and CSRF token: All the security aspects are handled by
spaceship. - Profile Magic: Create and upload code signing requests, all managed by
spaceship - Multiple Spaceship: You can launch multiple
spaceshipswith different Apple accounts to do things like syncing the registered devices.
The initial release was sponsored by ZeroPush.
spaceship was developed by
Open full list of contributors.
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.
This project and all fastlane tools are in no way affiliated with Apple Inc. This project is open source under the MIT license, which means you have full access to the source code and can modify it to fit your own needs. All fastlane tools run on your own computer or server, so your credentials or other sensitive information will never leave your own computer. You are responsible for how you use fastlane tools.