Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

From a quick skim of the repository, it looks like this is only for accessories/devices that you own. I hope that this is the case, and that it doesn't work for the "Find My Friends" functionality.

I'm okay sharing my location with trusted people so that they can occasionally manually check where I currently am. I don't like the idea of them theoretically being able to automatically record my location and build a complete history of my movements over time.

You should probably just assume that the recording is possible and not share your location with people you don't trust to not do that. Find my Friends isn't Snapchat—there's nothing in the pitch about ephemerality, so you shouldn't assume they engineered it in as a design constraint.

You're right, locating friends is not currently supported. I would assume that this feature is implemented by simply sharing your device's (already recorded) latest location ping with your friends, in which case this is also currently out of scope for the project - the library only intends to interact with the "other-devices-find-my-device" network in order to be account-agnostic.

On a separate thought, if Apple has not taken concerns such as the one you portrayed into account when designing Find My Friends then I would suggest not using the system altogether. At that point it's only a matter of time before someone figures out how to extract the data. But that's an entirely different story and a personal consideration you'll have to make.

Yeah, uh... you might do well to assume that they can. The Find My Friends API is really really simple, I have a script somewhere that can pull the locations of everyone who has shared their locations with me and record it.

(I'm also the one who wrote the original code that was refactored a couple times until it became this project... https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush/blob/async/examples/ope...)