Step3: Open Fastfile and add the following script

This will create Fastfile and Gemfile needed for us to write our scripts.Ĭhoose manual configuration when prompted in the terminal because we are not adding any Xcode project in this repository.

Step 2: Initialize fastlane by running the following command in your terminal fastlane init Warning: Keep this repository Private because you will be adding some important variables related to your apple account. Step 1: Create a new repository in Github and clone it to your local computer. Stepsįollow these steps to automate your app reviews workflow This is perfect for our solution as Spaceship API can extract the data within this time frame. We use Github to host our repository with the fastlane scripts, then we link our repository to Bitrise workflow which we configure and schedule to run in a specific time.īitrise offers a free plan which allows us to run 200 builds per month with a 600 minute per build limitation and build can be scheduled based on the time of the day. So it is now possible by writing ruby/swift scripts in fastlane using Spaceship and we can be able to extract the App reviews as objects.įastlane scripts will need to run on a machine, we cannot manually make developers run this script every day in their local machine, so to automate this workflow, we use a combination of Github and Bitrise(CI tool) to automate our workflow. It’s super fast, well tested and supports all of the operations you can do via the browser Spaceship exposes both the Apple Developer Center and the App Store Connect API. Spaceship is also used to power a lot of fastlane features like deliver, match etc. Apple has provided a way to manage the App Store reviews in appstoreconnect but, wouldn’t it be very useful if the app reviews are pushed to a slack channel everyday? Spaceship from fastlaneĪppstore connect does not provide any public API’s that can retrieve the app reviews, but thanks to the fastlane tool called Spaceship, using which we can extract the app reviews using its API. Listening to the users and responding to their feedback is one of the ways to keep the app customers happy.

IOS App Store reviews are an important medium where iOS app developers can receive their app feedback.

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