PokéVision shutdown

[creliuz]

I've downloaded pokevision 64 for windows but it doesnt start? Any suggestions?

[jmshal]

PokéVision has shutdown (for now). So the executable will likely not do anything.

[creliuz]

Okey, so it won't work at all atm?
Thanks for fast respond.

[jmshal]

For the mean time, no. We'll see whether they end up starting back up, but it's likely they've been asked to shutdown by either Niantic, The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.

See http://kotaku.com/pokevision-and-other-pokemon-go-trackers-seem-to-have-b-1784602025

It seems like Map-Scan and so on also works (i test it with an .net API). But they added a Throttle (i try it with the .net api) . So every User only could scan once in 5sec (other calls are empty). With an Throttle like this map-services cant work, with creating Millions of PTC-Accounts^^

So with an new createdUser (i think PTC is the best choice) for the Scan, the Programm could work as before. And there are API-Wrapper in any language:

Here in GoLang
https://github.com/pkmngo-odi/pogo

[jmshal]

I think we'll have to see how it all plays out. If by this weekend PokéVision is still down, I will investigate calling the Pokémon GO API directly. It would have to be done locally, as hosting such a solution would likely end up being shutdown too.

It has to be run locally because every user should create a new PTC Account for scanning (using the account u are playing with is maybe not the best idear).

[samjjx]

No need to create a new PTC Account. I feel you can call the pokemon go API and update the data real time. Then the user can get the response from your website.

[jmshal]

Then the user can get the response from your website.

The only reason I'm not going to do it that way is for legal reasons. It's easy for Nintendo to take down a website if it goes against their terms, and this absolutely does.

Creating a PTC account bypasses any need for a server, costs nothing, and cannot technically be taken down. Only if they update it to work differently.

[samjjx]

https://skiplagged.com/catch-that Have you seen this? It seems to be easier to query on such third-party service company.

[jmshal]

I haven't had much time to do much to this project recently. But I'm definitely willing to accept PRs.