go-ios

README

Welcome 👋

npm install -g go-ios can be used to get going. Run ios --help after the installation for details.

The goal of this project is to provide a stable and production ready opensource solution to automate iOS device on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. I am delighted to announce that a few companies including headspin.io will use or are using go-iOS. If you are interested in controlling iOS devices, please also check out https://github.com/nanoscopic/controlfloor written by my good friend @nanoscopic

Follow my twitter for updates or check out my medium blog: https://daniel-paulus.medium.com/

If you are interested in using go-iOS please get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter or the Github discussions above, I always love to hear what people are doing with it.

If you miss something your Mac can do but go-iOS can't, just request a feature in the issues tab.

New REST-API

Go-iOS is getting an experimental REST-API check it out https://github.com/danielpaulus/go-ios/tree/main/restapi

Design principles:

1. Using golang to compile static, small and fast binaries for all platforms very easily.

   Build Manual: Install golang and run go build

2. All output as JSON so you can easily use go-iOS from any other programming language

3. Everything is a module, you can use go-iOS in golang projects as a module dependency easily

Features:

Most notable:

• Install apps zipped as ipa or unzipped from their .app folder ios install --path=/path/to/app
• Run XCTests including WebdriverAgent on Linux, Windows and Mac
• Start and Stop apps
• Use a debug proxy to reverse engineer every tool Mac OSX has, so you can contrib to go-ios or build your own
• Pair devices without manual tapping on a popup
• Install developer images automatically by running ios image auto
• Set thermal states and network emulation on the device with the ios devicestate command

All features:

Options:
  -v --verbose   Enable Debug Logging.
  -t --trace     Enable Trace Logging (dump every message).
  --nojson       Disable JSON output (default).
  -h --help      Show this screen.
  --udid=<udid>  UDID of the device.

The commands work as following:
	The default output of all commands is JSON. Should you prefer human readable outout, specify the --nojson option with your command.
	By default, the first device found will be used for a command unless you specify a --udid=some_udid switch.
	Specify -v for debug logging and -t for dumping every message.

ios listen [options]                                               Keeps a persistent connection open and notifies about newly connected or disconnected devices.
   ios list [options] [--details]                                     Prints a list of all connected device's udids. If --details is specified, it includes version, name and model of each device.
   ios info [options]                                                 Prints a dump of Lockdown getValues.
   ios image list [options]                                           List currently mounted developers images' signatures
   ios image mount [--path=<imagepath>] [options]                     Mount a image from <imagepath>
   ios image auto [--basedir=<where_dev_images_are_stored>] [options] Automatically download correct dev image from the internets and mount it.
   >                                                                  You can specify a dir where images should be cached.
   >                                                                  The default is the current dir.
   ios syslog [options]                                               Prints a device's log output
   ios screenshot [options] [--output=<outfile>]                      Takes a screenshot and writes it to the current dir or to <outfile>
   ios instruments notifications [options]                            Listen to application state notifications
   ios crash ls [<pattern>] [options]                                 run "ios crash ls" to get all crashreports in a list,
   >                                                                  or use a pattern like 'ios crash ls "*ips*"' to filter
   ios crash cp <srcpattern> <target> [options]                       copy "file pattern" to the target dir. Ex.: 'ios crash cp "*" "./crashes"'
   ios crash rm <cwd> <pattern> [options]                             remove file pattern from dir. Ex.: 'ios crash rm "." "*"' to delete everything
   ios devicename [options]                                           Prints the devicename
   ios date [options]                                                 Prints the device date
   ios devicestate list [options]                                     Prints a list of all supported device conditions, like slow network, gpu etc.
   ios devicestate enable <profileTypeId> <profileId> [options]       Enables a profile with ids (use the list command to see options). It will only stay active until the process is terminated.
   >                                                                  Ex. "ios devicestate enable SlowNetworkCondition SlowNetwork3GGood"
   ios lang [--setlocale=<locale>] [--setlang=<newlang>] [options]    Sets or gets the Device language
   ios mobilegestalt <key>... [--plist] [options]                     Lets you query mobilegestalt keys. Standard output is json but if desired you can get
   >                                                                  it in plist format by adding the --plist param.
   >                                                                  Ex.: "ios mobilegestalt MainScreenCanvasSizes ArtworkTraits --plist"
   ios diagnostics list [options]                                     List diagnostic infos
   ios pair [--p12file=<orgid>] [--password=<p12password>] [options]  Pairs the device. If the device is supervised, specify the path to the p12 file
   >                                                                  to pair without a trust dialog. Specify the password either with the argument or
   >                                                                  by setting the environment variable 'P12_PASSWORD'
   ios profile list                                                   List the profiles on the device
   ios profile remove <profileName>                                   Remove the profileName from the device
   ios profile add <profileFile> [--p12file=<orgid>] [--password=<p12password>] Install profile file on the device. If supervised set p12file and password or the environment variable 'P12_PASSWORD'
   ios httpproxy <host> <port> [<user>] [<pass>] --p12file=<orgid> [--password=<p12password>] set global http proxy on supervised device. Use the password argument or set the environment variable 'P12_PASSWORD'
   >                                                                  Specify proxy password either as argument or using the environment var: PROXY_PASSWORD
   >                                                                  Use p12 file and password for silent installation on supervised devices.
   ios httpproxy remove [options]                                     Removes the global http proxy config. Only works with http proxies set by go-ios!
   ios ps [--apps] [options]                                          Dumps a list of running processes on the device.
   >                                                                  Use --nojson for a human-readable listing including BundleID when available. (not included with JSON output)
   >                                                                  --apps limits output to processes flagged by iOS as "isApplication". This greatly-filtered list
   >                                                                  should at least include user-installed software.  Additional packages will also be displayed depending on the version of iOS.
   ios ip [options]                                                   Uses the live pcap iOS packet capture to wait until it finds one that contains the IP address of the device.
   >                                                                  It relies on the MAC address of the WiFi adapter to know which is the right IP.
   >                                                                  You have to disable the "automatic wifi address"-privacy feature of the device for this to work.
   >                                                                  If you wanna speed it up, open apple maps or similar to force network traffic.
   >                                                                  f.ex. "ios launch com.apple.Maps"
   ios forward [options] <hostPort> <targetPort>                      Similar to iproxy, forward a TCP connection to the device.
   ios dproxy [--binary]                                              Starts the reverse engineering proxy server.
   >                                                                  It dumps every communication in plain text so it can be implemented easily.
   >                                                                  Use "sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/Apple/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.usbmuxd.plist"
   >                                                                  to stop usbmuxd and load to start it again should the proxy mess up things.
   >                                                                  The --binary flag will dump everything in raw binary without any decoding.
   ios readpair                                                       Dump detailed information about the pairrecord for a device.
   ios install --path=<ipaOrAppFolder> [options]                      Specify a .app folder or an installable ipa file that will be installed.
   ios pcap [options] [--pid=<processID>] [--process=<processName>]   Starts a pcap dump of network traffic, use --pid or --process to filter specific processes.
   ios apps [--system] [--all] [--list]                               Retrieves a list of installed applications. --system prints out preinstalled system apps. --all prints all apps, including system, user, and hidden apps. --list only prints bundle ID, bundle name and version number.
   ios launch <bundleID>                                              Launch app with the bundleID on the device. Get your bundle ID from the apps command.
   ios kill (<bundleID> | --pid=<processID> | --process=<processName>) [options] Kill app with the specified bundleID, process id, or process name on the device.
   ios runtest <bundleID>                                             Run a XCUITest.
   ios runwda [--bundleid=<bundleid>] [--testrunnerbundleid=<testbundleid>] [--xctestconfig=<xctestconfig>] [--arg=<a>]... [--env=<e>]...[options]  runs WebDriverAgents
   >                                                                  specify runtime args and env vars like --env ENV_1=something --env ENV_2=else  and --arg ARG1 --arg ARG2
   ios ax [options]                                                   Access accessibility inspector features.
   ios debug [--stop-at-entry] <app_path>                             Start debug with lldb
   ios fsync (rm | tree | mkdir) --path=<targetPath>                  Remove | treeview | mkdir in target path.
   ios fsync (pull | push) --srcPath=<srcPath> --dstPath=<dstPath>    Pull or Push file from srcPath to dstPath.
   ios reboot [options]                                               Reboot the given device
   ios -h | --help                                                    Prints this screen.
   ios --version | version [options]                                  Prints the version
   ios setlocation [options] [--lat=<lat>] [--lon=<lon>]              Updates the location of the device to the provided by latitude and longitude coordinates. Example: setlocation --lat=40.730610 --lon=-73.935242
   ios setlocationgpx [options] [--gpxfilepath=<gpxfilepath>]         Updates the location of the device based on the data in a GPX file. Example: setlocationgpx --gpxfilepath=/home/username/location.gpx
   ios resetlocation [options]                                        Resets the location of the device to the actual one
   ios assistivetouch (enable | disable | toggle | get) [--force] [options] Enables, disables, toggles, or returns the state of the "AssistiveTouch" software home-screen button. iOS 11+ only (Use --force to try on older versions).
   ios diskspace [options]											  Prints disk space info.