Mac App Store Functions

The mas is a set of shortcuts for interacting with mas (Mac App Store Command-line)

Requirements

These functions requires mas to be installed. If not found it will warn and ignore calls from definitions. To ensure mas is available you can add to your definition, before calling appstore, this:

use 'brew'
brew_pkg 'mas'

Usage

At your definition file start by requiring mas like so:

use "mas"

Functions

appstore APPNAME APPID

Installs APPNAME if not found using mas install APPID. APPNAME needs to be available in your Purchases of App Store, otherwise mas will fail. This means that you need at least once have bought the application from the App Store. APPID can be obtained using mas search APPNAME. Example of a definition using mas:

use 'mas'
appstore Caffeine 411246225

Will install Caffeine application if not already installed on the machine.