Upload apps using public URL

In order to test your native and hybrid apps on BrowserStack using Appium, you first need to upload your app to BrowserStack servers. Its easy to upload an Android app (.apk or .aab file) or an iOS app (.ipa file) from a public URL to BrowserStack using the REST API. This approach is useful when the app is hosted on a remote server (e.g. S3 bucket) and its downloadable via a publicly accessible URL.

Here is an example cURL request to upload an Android app using a public URL :

curl -u "YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" 
-X POST "https://api-cloud.browserstack.com/app-automate/upload" 
-F "url=https://www.browserstack.com/app-automate/sample-apps/android/WikipediaSample.apk"

A sample response to the above API request is shown below :

{
    "app_url":"bs://f7c874f21852ba57957a3fdc33f47514288c4ba4"
}

Please note the value of app_url in the API response (bs://f7c874f21852.... in the above example). This value will be used later to set the app capability to specify application under test in your Appium test scripts.

You can manage your uploaded apps by using our REST API. Use the recent apps API endpoint to list your recently uploaded apps. You can delete your uploaded apps by using the delete app API endpoint. By default, we will delete the uploaded app after 30 days from the date of upload.