MobileDevice.py

A python package which aims to wrap Apple's MobileDevice API; to provide complete support for all iOS, device services.

The project aims to provide both a native Pythin API (using ctypes) and a fully features command line interface.

You can run the project directory as a package e.g.

python MobileDevice/ afc put myfile.txt /var/mobile/Media/

or:

python MobileDevice.zip afc put myfile.txt /var/mobile/Media/

or, if you install the library using: sudo python setup.py install

mdf afc put myfile.txt /var/mobile/Media/

(will upload a file to the device)

at any point append -h to the command line to get more help

In general I recommend you install the package if you're ever going to write scripts using it, or just fancy typing less characters.

Project Structure

The basic structure of the package is as follows:

MobileDevice.py: this is a bare bones ctypes wrapper over the native C library

CoreFoundation.py: this is a simple ctypes wrapper around CoreFoundation and a few helper methods to convert between CFTypes and python types

All other classes: afc.py, syslog.py, filerelay.py, amdevice.py etc are more pythonic wrappers around the base C library.

The idea being that we give a python abstraction of all the services e.g.

To list all files on the file system:

from command line:

mdf afc ls /var/mobile/Media

or in code:

from MobileDevice import *

def printdir(afc, path):
	for name in afc.listdir(path):
		isdir = u''
		if afc.lstat(path + name).st_ifmt == stat.S_IFDIR:
			isdir = u'/'
		print path + name + isdir
		if afc.lstat(path + name).st_ifmt == stat.S_IFDIR:
			printdir(afc, path + name + isdir)

dev = list_devices()[0]
dev.connect()
afc = AFC(dev)

printdir(afc, u'/var/mobile/Media') # recursive print of all files visible

afc.disconnect()

To retrieve a .cpio.gz file of all the readonly special data (crashlogs etc)

from command line:

mdf filerelay dump.cpio.gz

or in code:

from MobileDevice import *

dev = list_devices()[0]
dev.connect()
fr = FileRelay(dev)

f = open(u'dump.cpio.gz', 'wb')
f.write(fr.retrieve([
	u'AppleSupport',
	u'Network',
	u'VPN',
	u'WiFi',
	u'UserDatabases',
	u'CrashReporter',
	u'tmp',
	u'SystemConfiguration'
]))
f.close()

fr.disconnect()

To read and print all syslog messages

from command line:

mdf syslog

or in code:

from MobileDevice import *
import sys

dev = list_devices()[0]
dev.connect()
sl = Syslog(dev)

while True:
	msg = sl.read()
	if msg is None:
		break
	sys.stdout.write(msg)

sl.disconnect()

Keywords

iOS, iPad, iPhone, Apple, MobileDevice, python, command line, lockdownd, usbmuxd