I tried to create a test Google account to download apps. I used a new prepaid phone number and created the account in an icognito tab in my Firefox. The account was created without any problems, and then logged into it on my physical test device. However, when downloading apps using the googleplay cli, I ran into errors:
googleplay -d com.pinterest -purchase -p 2
POST https://android.googleapis.com/auth
POST https://android.clients.google.com/fdfe/purchase
panic: 400 Bad Request
goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
This happend for some specific apps, such as Pinterest or Telegram. In the Play Store on the test device, I was asked to verify my age, when I tried to download those apps. Google provides two ways of verifying you age: Government ID (which I don’t want to do) and credit card (but they only accept real credit cards, I only have a debit one).
@baltpeter also created an account with a completely new phone number, but used the account creation dialog in an emulator. This account worked with the cli without any further verification.
I tried to create a test Google account to download apps. I used a new prepaid phone number and created the account in an icognito tab in my Firefox. The account was created without any problems, and then logged into it on my physical test device. However, when downloading apps using the
googleplaycli, I ran into errors:This happend for some specific apps, such as Pinterest or Telegram. In the Play Store on the test device, I was asked to verify my age, when I tried to download those apps. Google provides two ways of verifying you age: Government ID (which I don’t want to do) and credit card (but they only accept real credit cards, I only have a debit one).
@baltpeter also created an account with a completely new phone number, but used the account creation dialog in an emulator. This account worked with the cli without any further verification.