Tesla is launching their developer APIs

peoplearepeople wrote: post #2

> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage. That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car

then... just use the Tesla app?

Re: Tesla is launching their developer APIs

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Post by ejlxsh » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

peoplearepeople wrote: post #2

> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage. That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car

Automotive software is a regulated space, there's no way the idea of these APIs is developers tinkering with their Tesla for fun (it allows remote execution!) but rather large businesses integrating their apps with Tesla, like Microsoft or OpenAI or something.

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Post by mvdtnz » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:01 PM UTC

Does anyone actually get approved to use these APIs? Or is this another example of Tesla making big claims of openness without following through?

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Post by ejlxsh » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:02 PM UTC

I cannot wait for HackerOne or similar bug bounty sites to have a go with this

https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#door_unlock

Oh my god, what a cool sounding endpoint https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#set_bioweapon_mod...

Edit: This is coming up to EOL, Tesla has an SDK you should use now

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Post by stcredzero » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

ejlxsh wrote: post #5

peoplearepeople wrote: post #2

> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage. That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car

Automotive software is a regulated space, there's no way the idea of these APIs is developers tinkering with their Tesla for fun (it allows remote execution!) but rather large businesses integrating their apps with Tesla, like Microsoft or OpenAI or something.

Someone could start a business to enable such tinkering. However, that doesn’t seem like a profitable business to be in at all. Potential downsides seem huge, and potential upside seems tiny.

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Post by leoqa » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

ejlxsh wrote: post #7

I cannot wait for HackerOne or similar bug bounty sites to have a go with this https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#door_unlock Oh my god, what a cool sounding endpoint https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#set_bioweapon_mod... Edit: This is coming up to EOL, Tesla has an SDK you should use now

I hate to tell you this but there is a "login" and "password_reset" API on Google.com!

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Post by DennisP » Fri, Oct 13, 2023, 6:08 PM UTC

ejlxsh wrote: post #5

peoplearepeople wrote: post #2

> After signing in, get started and provide your legal business details, app name, description and purpose of usage. That's an annoying amount of work if you just want to access your own car

Automotive software is a regulated space, there's no way the idea of these APIs is developers tinkering with their Tesla for fun (it allows remote execution!) but rather large businesses integrating their apps with Tesla, like Microsoft or OpenAI or something.

Or fleet owners. The docs have a lot of stuff useful for fleets.