Using the Jamf Pro API to download installer packages from a JCDS2 distribution point

As part of Jamf’s release of Jamf Cloud Distribution Service 2.0, Jamf has added the ability to communicate with a JCDS 2 distribution point via the Jamf Pro API:

https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/jamf-cloud-distribution-service-release-notes/page/Release_History.html

Among these new API capabilities is the ability to query a JCDS 2 DP for download links, for the installer packages stored in the distribution point.

https://developer.jamf.com/jamf-pro/reference/get_v1-jcds-files-filename

I’m interested in this because I’ve had an existing workflow for downloading installer packages from a non-JCDS AWS-hosted cloud distribution point, where I’ve been using AWS’s awscli command line tool to run a one-way synchronization process between the cloud distribution point in Amazon’s S3 service and a local directory stored on a Mac.

For those who want to use this new capability, I’ve written a script which uses the Jamf Pro Classic API and Jamf Pro API to get the list of installer packages on a Jamf Pro server, retrieve the associated download links and download the installer packages to a directory on my Mac. For more details, please see below the jump.