How to find your Uber passenger rating

#1

Post by aaln » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 1:18 AM UTC

How to find your Uber passenger rating
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Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#2

Post by mrvladnov » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 1:42 AM UTC

this is dope, got a 4.8

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#3

Post by taroth » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 1:44 AM UTC

Nice hack. I imagine using it to see if a driver gave me a good rating or not based on the delta between my new score and old score.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#4

Post by thrill » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 1:47 AM UTC

5.0 (I've never used the service - so it looks like it's all downhill from here...)

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#5

Post by aaln » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 1:51 AM UTC

taroth wrote: post #3

Nice hack. I imagine using it to see if a driver gave me a good rating or not based on the delta between my new score and old score.

lol, that's a great idea.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#6

Post by chatmasta » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:54 AM UTC

What kind of details do you think go into this rating? My guess: how long driver waits for you to get in the car, how drunk and annoying you are, how much you tip (do they see this before rating?), how profitable your ride is.

I suspect most drivers, like most passengers, give a 5.0 to almost everyone, but dock points for being a dick. It just seems there's no other way to differentiate passengers, since they'll be paying the fee regardless.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#7

Post by madeofpalk » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:55 AM UTC

This is a lot easier than the Charles MITM proxy I used to intercept the Uber iPhone API calls to determine mine. I feel kind of silly now that I didnt bother checking the web API.

I also made a web scraper to get my uber trip details (incl. route driven), save it to JSON and map the trips all at once. http://i.imgur.com/Q1W59rD.jpg. Here's a quick dump of the code https://github.com/joshhunt/uber. It's pretty rough and it makes a lot of assumptions (e.g. metric system and AUD). I never really plan on looking at it again, so your milage may vary.

I also found their API structure to be quite unusual: They make a call to something like `api.uber.com/` with POST data of something like

    {
        url: '/api/user/123123123',
        method: 'get',
        location: [lat, long]
    }

and you'll recieve a response back of something like

    {
        responseData: {
            username: 'madeofpalk'
            ...rest of requested data...
        },
        vehicles: [
            ...list of all vehicles and their locations...
        ]
        ...other data that wasnt explicitly requested but comes through with every request...
    }

I had never seen this pattern before, and thought it was quite unusual (especially for a 'new hip startup' that uses Python and Node.js). Anyone care to comment on why they may have choosen something like this?

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

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Post by enneff » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #6

What kind of details do you think go into this rating? My guess: how long driver waits for you to get in the car, how drunk and annoying you are, how much you tip (do they see this before rating?), how profitable your ride is. I suspect most drivers, like most passengers, give a 5.0 to almost everyone, but dock points for being a dick. It just seems there's no other way to differentiate passengers, since they'll be p…

You don't tip Uber drivers.

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#9

Post by mxpxrocks10 » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:57 AM UTC

awesome- this was great. 4.9

Re: How to find your Uber passenger rating

#10

Post by korzun » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:57 AM UTC

chatmasta wrote: post #6

What kind of details do you think go into this rating? My guess: how long driver waits for you to get in the car, how drunk and annoying you are, how much you tip (do they see this before rating?), how profitable your ride is. I suspect most drivers, like most passengers, give a 5.0 to almost everyone, but dock points for being a dick. It just seems there's no other way to differentiate passengers, since they'll be p…

Tip is included in the ride, you can't adjust it.

This is not very scientific. I got 4.8 which means absolutely nothing to me.