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Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

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376 points nkko | 1 comments | 21 Dec 24 12:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.26s | source
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Havoc ◴[21 Dec 24 14:44 UTC] No.42479967[source]▶
What are the chance that this keeps working long term?

Sounds awesome & makes airtags more appealing, but if apple is just going to shut it down next week then less so

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1. malmeloo ◴[21 Dec 24 20:28 UTC] No.42482047[source]▶
So far they don't really seem to care, however we've seen the lengths Apple is willing to go to when it comes to protecting their sweet revenue stream during their fight with Beeper. OpenHaystack has been functional for a long time, but they obtain locations from a running Mac, while this project directly accesses their API. This is also the most attention this project has received in a long time, so we'll see how that goes.

Over the past year only of my accounts has been banned by Apple, and I was using that one to request locations every 5-10 minutes 24/7 in Home Assistant, with no other usage of the account other than one registered hackintosh. I'm currently using another account that is querying data every 15-30 minutes, which has been working fine so far. You just need an account to anonymously download location reports, so if your throwaway gets banned just create a new one and things should work again. Just make sure to attach it to a real device or hackintosh at least once to "activate" the account's iCloud API.

I do just want to make it clear that I have no intentions on keeping this working "at all costs" - at least not without other people willing to help me out. The library is currently not even trying to be stealthy, and it can be easily detected using heuristics if they really wanted to.