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Asked: 2026-05-20T12:50:22+00:00

I am trying to download Xcode from the Apple Developer site using just wget

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I am trying to download Xcode from the Apple Developer site using just wget or curl. I think I am successfully storing the cookie I need to download the .dmg file, but I am not completely sure.

When I run this command:

wget \  
   --post-data="theAccountName=USERNAME&theAccountPW=PASSWORD" \  
   --cookies=on \  
   --keep-session-cookies \  
   --save-cookies=cookies.txt \        
   -O - \  
   https://developer.apple.com/ios/download.action?path=/ios/ios_sdk_4.1__final/xcode_3.2.4_and_ios_sdk_4.1.dmg > /dev/null

A file called cookies.txt is created and contains something like this:

developer.apple.com FALSE / FALSE 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX  XXXXXXXXXXXX
developer.apple.com FALSE / FALSE 0 developer.sessionToken

I’m not completely certain, but I think there should be more to it than that (specifically, an alphanumeric string after sessionToken).

When I try to do the same thing with curl using this:

curl \  
   -d "theAccountName=USERNAME&theAccountPW=PASSWORD" \
   -c xcode-cookie \ 
   -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1" \
   https://developer.apple.com/ios/download.action?path=/ios/ios_sdk_4.1__final/xcode_3.2.4_and_ios_sdk_4.1.dmg

I get a file called xcode-cookie that contains the same information as the cookies.txt file wget gives me, except that the lines are reversed.

I then tried to download the .dmg file.

Using wget:

wget \
   --cookies=on \
   --load-cookies=cookies.txt \
   --keep-session-cookies \
   http://developer.apple.com/ios/download.action?path=/ios/ios_sdk_4.1__final/xcode_3.2.4_and_ios_sdk_4.1.dmg

This gives me a file called login?appIdKey=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&path=%2F%2Fios%2Fdownload.action?path=%2Fios%2Fios_sdk_4.1__final%2Fxcode_3.2.4_and_ios_sdk_4.1.dmg
, which is just an HTML page containing the login form for the developer site.

Using curl:

curl \
   -b xcode-cookie \
   -c xcode-cookie \
   -O -v \
   -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1" \
   https://developer.apple.com/ios/download.action?path=/ios/ios_sdk_4.1__final/xcode_3.2.4_and_ios_sdk_4.1.dmg

Which prints basically the same thing as wget (minus the HTML).

I want to say it has to do with the sessionToken not being in the cookie, but like I said before I am not sure. I even tried exporting the cookies from my browser and following the instructions in the blog post I linked below and several other sites I found while searching for help.

I must be doing something wrong, unless Apple has changed something since Oct. 10 because this guy seems to be to do something right.

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    For Chrome,

    1. Install cookies.txt Chrome extension
    2. Login to Apple Developer site and get the url for downloading
    3. Run cookies.txt extension and download cookies.txt file

    4. From the cookies.txt download directory, load cookies into wget and start resumable download. For example, to download Xcode_7.dmg, you would run:

      wget –load-cookies=cookies.txt -c http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7/Xcode_7.dmg

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