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Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

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378 points nkko | 2 comments | 21 Dec 24 12:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
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pixelmonkey ◴[21 Dec 24 15:17 UTC] No.42480134[source]▶
This looks great. If this Python implementation of the FindMy API actually works, it would be a major technology quality-of-life improvement for me. I hope Apple lets it stay alive.

Everyone who shares location with me does so over Find My, and my family insists on using AirTags. As a 100% desktop Linux and mobile Android user, it is one of the few things that I always need to remote in to my Mac Mini to access because there are no x-platform FindMy apps and the FindMy iCloud web app does not have feature parity to the macOS and iOS apps. One of a long list of offenses where Apple refuses to make things easy for x-platform friend groups and families. Very annoying.

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BeefySwain ◴[21 Dec 24 16:04 UTC] No.42480401[source]▶
What does "x-platform" mean in this context?
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1. sshh12 ◴[21 Dec 24 16:14 UTC] No.42480452[source]▶
Cross platform (something that works well outside of Apple apps/devices)
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2. t00 ◴[22 Dec 24 06:41 UTC] No.42484771[source]▶
Cross platform -> † platform -> t platform might be a better choice