Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).
Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.
They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that can’t be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.
I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.
Dependencies:
jqzintmagickunzipcurl or wget
https://gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkpass2png
Usage:
pkpass2png https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass ticket.png
@fabio For convenience on a phone, try PassAndroid, 14MB*, fully FOSS, available on F-Droid. https://github.com/ligi/PassAndroid
TBH, for an Apple-conceived format it's surprisingly open and straight forward, pkpass that is.
*) Yeah, I know that's insane but it's probably as good as it gets with an apk.
@cweickhmann @fabio
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ligi.passandroid