(Arm Mac) - Shopify CLI Hanging on Getting Development Theme

Shopify CLI and Libraries
1

Hi all!

Presently, I am trying to just get started with the shopify CLI. I have set up my shopify site, etc. everything and installed the shopify-cli with homebrew. (For exactly what I did in terms of setting up the site, I followed all of the directions from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dznKWXkL3E&list=PLsr48ksn9_9Bzii-fRXRTVAo3OPYTtMAU but diverged after the CLI was installed)

However, when I attempt

shopify theme pull --verbose --store=https://not-my-actual-site.myshopify.com/

I am getting this

2025-06-22T23:58:22.321Z: Running command theme pull
2025-06-22T23:58:22.325Z: Running system process in background:
  · Command: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/24.2.0/bin/node /opt/homebrew/bin/shopify notifications list --ignore-errors
  · Working directory: /home/Projects/Shopify/theme

2025-06-22T23:58:22.330Z: Notifications to show: 0
2025-06-22T23:58:22.341Z: Ensuring that the user is authenticated with the Theme API with the following scopes:
[]

2025-06-22T23:58:22.341Z: Ensuring that the user is authenticated with the Admin API with the following scopes for the store not-my-actual-site.myshopify.com:
[]

2025-06-22T23:58:22.341Z: Getting session store...
2025-06-22T23:58:22.342Z: Validating existing session against the scopes:
[
  "openid",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/shop.admin.graphql",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/shop.admin.themes",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/partners.collaborator-relationships.readonly",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/shop.storefront-renderer.devtools",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/partners.app.cli.access",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/destinations.readonly",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/organization.store-management",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/organization.on-demand-user-access",
  "https://api.shopify.com/auth/organization.apps.manage"
]
For applications:
{
  "adminApi": {
    "scopes": [],
    "storeFqdn": "not-my-actual-site.myshopify.com"
  }
}

2025-06-22T23:58:22.342Z: - Token validation -> It's expired: false
2025-06-22T23:58:22.342Z: Getting development theme...
It hangs forever on this last line.

I saw a post here (Shopify CLI theme pull error relating to Graph?), which is pretty dang close to the identical issue. The resolution to the problem was to simply reinstall and uninstall

  • Node and npm (using nvm)
  • Git (using homebrew)
  • Shopify CLI
  • Homebrew

However, this didn’t work for me, and I am still encountering the above error. (I also verified all of these were uninstalled before reinstalling them too)

Any help on this would be appreciated! Thanks!

2

That’s a very weird one! Would you mind restarting your Mac and trying it again? We did see a report come in that seems very similar here: [Bug]: Shopify Theme Pull · Issue #5666 · Shopify/cli · GitHub

If that doesn’t work I’ll look into getting you a special build that will add a few different debugging statements to help us find the root cause.

3

Yes, I have unfortunately / still got that above error :frowning:

Please let me know how I can help / what you would like me to do moving forward!

4

Can you try running the command with this version?

npm i -g @shopify/cli@0.0.0-snapshot-20250625173346

Make sure to run with --verbose again as it’s going to provide a few more logs around where you’re stalling and hopefully point to the problem. If any theme or shop IDs appear feel free to change them to 1.

5

Yes! This worked! Thank you so so much!!

6

Well now I’m very confused because all that did was add more logging to the command, it didn’t actually fix anything!

Maybe try to re-install the latest version again and see if it’s fixed for you.

npm i -g @shopify/cli@latest

How peculiar!