Query Apple's FindMy network with Python

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455 points nkko | 1 comments | 21 Dec 24 12:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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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vitovito ◴[22 Dec 24 05:11 UTC] No.42484506[source]▶

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I ended up using Shortcuts to publish a set of screenshots from an always-on Mac every 10 minutes or so for a set of shared, family AirTags: http://vitor.io/android-airtags

I couldn't reliably get iOS to do the same, and my tests of an Android-compatible tag found it was detected much less often than an AirTag riding along with it.

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1. pixelmonkey ◴[22 Dec 24 12:29 UTC] No.42485936[source]▶

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Wow, that's some dedication to solve this problem! Very nice write-up. It was also good to see your thinking behind why doing this on an always-on Mac was better than possible alternatives. Thankfully M-series Macs don't draw much power at all at idle.

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