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Script for reliably downloading binaries (e.g. Xcode) from Apple's CDN
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| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| print "What is the URL of your Apple Downloads resource?\nURL:" | |
| url = gets.strip | |
| print "What is the ADCDownloadAuth cookie token:\nADCDownloadAuth: " | |
| token = gets.strip | |
| command = "aria2c --header \"Host: adcdownload.apple.com\" --header \"Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\" --header \"Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1\" --header \"Cookie: ADCDownloadAuth=#{token}\" --header \"User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 10_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.2.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0 Mobile/14B72 Safari/602.1\" --header \"Accept-Language: en-us\" -x 16 -s 16 #{url} -d ~/Downloads" | |
| exec(command) |
Alternatively, I found out that using a VPN can greatly increase the download speeds while using the regular App Store. Using Mullvad for this but other providers are probably similar
You solved my problem that I spent 3 years on finding the answer.
FYI. The latest Apple developer portal (as of 2022-Jun-6th) does not seem to include the ADCDownloadAuth cookie.
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There is a tool that work great without any pain to download xcode.
You can download, install & switch between different versions of installed xcode.
It's called xcodes - - > https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/xcodes