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Re: Unofficial APIs

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I love the tinder API. A few years ago I was planing to shift to another locality in my city but couldn't figure out where. I eventually decided to move to an area with the best looking women. Used the python tinder API to move around the whole city with GPS coordinates while setting the shortest possible radius and saved profile pictures tagging them with geo location. The end result was a database of geolocation ma…

That's really freaking creepy...

Re: Unofficial APIs

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I tried playing Final Fantasy XI on a private server for a week, but found the game to involve too much grinding. Then I noticed an SQL injection in their auction house web page, which allowed me to dump prices of items at various times and build a private API. I used this to inform my investment, got quite wealthy and bought equipment for my toon, then quit the game shortly after.

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #59

I love the tinder API. A few years ago I was planing to shift to another locality in my city but couldn't figure out where. I eventually decided to move to an area with the best looking women. Used the python tinder API to move around the whole city with GPS coordinates while setting the shortest possible radius and saved profile pictures tagging them with geo location. The end result was a database of geolocation ma…

That's really freaking creepy...

You really can't do anything with that data unless you are matched with the other person.

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #59

I love the tinder API. A few years ago I was planing to shift to another locality in my city but couldn't figure out where. I eventually decided to move to an area with the best looking women. Used the python tinder API to move around the whole city with GPS coordinates while setting the shortest possible radius and saved profile pictures tagging them with geo location. The end result was a database of geolocation ma…

That's really freaking creepy...

BRB: Going to pitch some real estate agents with an automated system to add Tinder women with super hot profile pics tightly geolocated to their realestate listings...

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #59

I love the tinder API. A few years ago I was planing to shift to another locality in my city but couldn't figure out where. I eventually decided to move to an area with the best looking women. Used the python tinder API to move around the whole city with GPS coordinates while setting the shortest possible radius and saved profile pictures tagging them with geo location. The end result was a database of geolocation ma…

what's it like living above a yogurt shop?

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #51
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Awesome! I tried writing a CLI tool for ordering Chipotle, but I ran into some dynamically generated headers, that made it near impossible to authenticate. In the end, I gave up. Would love to see more examples and see how issues like this can be handled!

I’ve had this come up a few times when doing API snooping, and what I’ve done is decompiling the Android version (if available) of their app using jadx [1]. You get pretty legible Java, sometimes with Kotlin artifacts, sometimes with obfuscation, but in combination with some MITM snooping you can see how auth/headers/hashes are done. Sometimes you even find internal API endpoints with a security issue or two. [1]: ht…

Thanks!

I've used jadx once before to decompile a steamship line app, but it was just curiosity with no end goal in mind. Didn't try it with the chipotle app.

Next project!

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #65

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That's really freaking creepy...

BRB: Going to pitch some real estate agents with an automated system to add Tinder women with super hot profile pics tightly geolocated to their realestate listings...

There are hot women in your area

Here's the data in a spreadsheet

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #68
post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BRB: Going to pitch some real estate agents with an automated system to add Tinder women with super hot profile pics tightly geolocated to their realestate listings...

There are hot women in your area Here's the data in a spreadsheet

YOU LIVE IN ANONYMOUS PROXY TOO?!

Re: Unofficial APIs

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post #57

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I think you misunderstand what this repo calls an "API". The Coinbase "API" in this repo isn't the protocol (eg an HTTP REST API implementation), but the 3rd party Python library which speaks the protocol[1]. [1] https://github.com/danpaquin/coinbasepro-python

I must be lost then. The python code is an implementation of a program that uses the Coinbase API to make trades, fetch market data, etc. In my day, we'd call that a Program, Library or an SDK. Definitely wouldn't call that an "Unofficial API". When I think of "Unofficial API", I think of an API that wasn't intended for public use and is undocumented and supported by the company. Like the Pandora API some music playe…

Coinbase may have an official API, doesn't mean they support the Python implementation of their API, hence the 'unofficial' as in 'not maintained by the coinbase dev team'

These implementations are there for devs to save time and simply import the API implementation as a module and use already made functions to do the API calls

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