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Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 08 September 12 3:14 pm
by iamapom
My mate Kev at mygeogear.com took an order today for a large number of custom travel tags from a lady in the UK who is setting up a memorial website for her geocacher son who passed away. I don't know any more details about the sad story here, but it looks like he was pretty young.
Anyway, I believe on the memorial site, she'd like to show an automatic list, and potentiality a map of current TB locations. Assuming we had access the Groundspeak API (shouldn't be any issue in these circumstances) - does anyone technical out there know if it's possible to access TB location information through the API - I presume through web services ?
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 09 September 12 1:39 pm
by iamapom
Her son was 14 apparently.
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 09 September 12 3:31 pm
by danozz
Spent half an hour earlier today trying to get access to the API, couldn't get past step 1
Couldn't get an auth token.
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 09 September 12 4:31 pm
by akkatracker
danozz wrote:Spent half an hour earlier today trying to get access to the API, couldn't get past step 1
Couldn't get an auth token.
You need to contact Groundspeak for the API and Auth Token, hence the small amount of Live enabled apps
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 09 September 12 4:33 pm
by akkatracker
iamapom wrote:My mate Kev at mygeogear.com took an order today for a large number of custom travel tags from a lady in the UK who is setting up a memorial website for her geocacher son who passed away. I don't know any more details about the sad story here, but it looks like he was pretty young.
Anyway, I believe on the memorial site, she'd like to show an automatic list, and potentiality a map of current TB locations. Assuming we had access the Groundspeak API (shouldn't be any issue in these circumstances) - does anyone technical out there know if it's possible to access TB location information through the API - I presume through web services ?
Oh and this website can plot them on a map so you should be able to
http://ffmann.de/index.php/tb-scanner
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 12 September 12 11:23 am
by covert
iamapom wrote:does anyone technical out there know if it's possible to access TB location information through the API - I presume through web services ?
The API has a function to read a track-able travel list. You would either need to read the list on a regular basis for each TB or else use the watch list feature and have a fresh read for a single TB trigger on the arrival of the watch list email for that TB.
Re: Memorial site - accessing TB locations through GC API ?
Posted: 15 September 12 11:22 pm
by iamapom
Just what I was after. Thanks.