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Nirav Bhatt
Nirav Bhatt

Reputation: 6969

itunesconnect iTMSTransporter hell - in app purchase bulk upload stopped working

This awesome feature called bulk upload of In app purchase items via csv - available via Application Loader so far, has been suddenly taken away by Apple from XCode 9 and on. I tried some previous versions of Application loaders (2.9.1) but they lacked this feature as well.

Today I had about 50 IAP items and I struggled with command line iTMSTransporter but got no way of working around it any way.

After entering some test IAP products on itunesconnect, I got itms (XML) file but could not upload it back to itunesconnect post adding my other IAP items.

I have already tried naming it same on portal and my local storage but to no avail.

Why can't Apple make life simple enough for devs paying 30% of their hard earned money?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 666

Answers (1)

Nirav Bhatt
Nirav Bhatt

Reputation: 6969

The key thing to do here was:

  • Not to put screenshot files under the same folder as itms xml
  • but to put it inside itms (as itms is a package, like zip file).

Having specified the same screenshot file name (inside metadata xml under review_screenshot section) as the one manually uploaded in itunesconnect for a test IAP item, following command worked like a charm:

iTMSTransporter -m upload -u "[email protected]" -p "mypassword" -vendor_id "<itunes connect product id>" -f <path to itms package that contains metadata xml AND screenshot file>

Upvotes: 0

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