Some steps that help getting started creating the Apple Music JWT tokens needed to use MusicKit on iOS
Added a NodeJS version.
These instructions supplement the information found in the Get Started section of the Apple Music API Reference documents.
First, you must follow the instructions at Apple Music API Reference
Next, follow the instructions below to help create your developer token in the JSON Web Token format.
A developer machine running macOS Sierra (10.12.5) You will need to run Terminal and have root access, or can run sudo After following the instructions at the URL above, you should now have 3 pieces of data:
- a MusicKit private key in a *.p8 file
- a 10-digit key identifier in your Apple Developer account
- your 10-digit Apple Developer Account Team ID
Run the following on the command line:
sudo easy_install pip
Download the Python package manager from pip
Download the get-pip.py script from https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
Install Python package manager
sudo python get-pip.py
Now that the Python Package Manager (pip) is installed, use it to install the Python JWT library
sudo pip install pyjwt
Add the necessary Cryptography package
sudo pip install cryptography
All of that was just housekeeping to get you ready for the main event... actually generating the token.
Use you favourite editor to customize the script that will create your token.
open -e music_token.py
Copy your MusicKit private key from the .p8 file you generated and downloaded.
secret = """-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
REPLACE-THIS-WITH-YOUR-OWN-PRIVATE-KEY
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----"""
Substitute your 10-digit key identifier (kid) as found in your developer account
keyId = "9876543210"
Substitute your 10-digit Apple Developer Team ID
teamId = "0123456789"
Run the script
> python music_token.py
The script will output a sample curl command you can run to see if you were successful.
Ensure you have a current version of Node and npm running on your system.
Download the repo and run npm install in the project directory to install dependancies.
The project supports .env and you can add the following to your own .env file in the project directory.
TEAM_ID=[YOUR_TEAM_ID_FROM_APPLE]
KEY_ID=[YOUR_KEY_ID_FROM_APPLE]
There are two ways of using the Node create_token.js package:
In the project directory, run npm run generate and pass in the filename to your .p8 private key file.
** OR **
Simply run npm run generate follow the on screen prompts.
- provide the file path/name
- provide your Team ID
- provide your Key ID
The script has built in tests and will display test results during runtime.
If you wish to skip the validation step (i.e. 'offline mode'), configure the VALIDATE_TOKEN flag in create_token.js
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
- Anonymous Apple Marketing Guy - Initial work - [Anonymous]
- Darren Baptiste - First Commit - Pelau Imagineering
- Nate Blake - NodeJS version - n8blake
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
- Hat tip to the folks in the MusicKit Lab at WWDC17