Hey guys, let's work together on a live map of wild Pokemon!

Windows Guide for Idiots

1. Download and install this python: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.12/python-2.7.12.msi .

Choose to install EVERYTHING

2. Verify or Add "C:\Python27" and "C:\Python27\scripts" to windows PATH environmental variables

3. Download and unzip GITHUB zip somewhere. Shift right click that new folder you just made and "open command window here"

4. At cmd prompt type "pip install -r requirements.txt", apps will install.

5. Open example.py in notepad, look for lines that shows coordinates. They create a "box" area that gets scanned.

6. Go to http://www.latlong.net/ and look up two coordinates, one will be the bottom left corner of the box, and one indicating the top right corner. Replace the line in example.py with those two.

7. Edit line that starts with "print client.login_with_pokemon_trainer", add your Pokemon trainer username and password. Save example.py

8. Use notepad to create a new .BAT file. Enter this

    title Skiplagged Scan        
    :loop        
    start "Scanner" /i python example.py        
    timeout /t 1800 >null        
    taskkill /fi "WINDOWTITLE EQ Scanner"        
    goto loop

9. Run it, sit back, and after a minute go here and put in your location:

    www.skiplagged.com/pokemon

10. The skiplagged server will SAVE all pokemon info you upload. If you scan from 12-3pm on Monday, every day from 12-3pm the pokemon data will show up without you needing to scan again.

Seeing Any errors? This means the servers are down are broken

i have the script up and it seems to be running fine --> here is a gif of what i see https://gyazo.com/497145508c19f56fc35d44ce7745431a

That said, none of my data seems to be showing on https://skiplagged.com/pokemon

Do I have to do anything else to contribute to the map?

Hm, seems to be completely dead now. Nothing is showing up on the map.

How do I make entries?

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hey skiplagged, oni-chan. did you abandon this project? Ive been uploading for 2 days 24/7 for the nyc area and the page is blank half the day

Hey Skiplagged!
I have been using this for a few days now and it's been perfect! However, recently the Pokemon that have gone into the negatives (time) no longer disappear from the map without a refresh.

This thing crapped out on me sometime betweent 25-45 min

For windows users, put this in a .bat file to launch this and then close/re-launch it every 30 min.

:loop
start "PokeScan" /i python example.py
timeout /t 1800 >null
taskkill /fi "WINDOWTITLE EQ Pokescan"
goto loop

So I am not too sure what I am doing wrong:

bounds = ((51.023227, -114.116278), (51.055393, -114.032850))

Outputting:

468980870.82 moving player
1468980871.49 moving player
1468980871.66 found 2 pokemon
Drowzee [96]: 51.024760, -114.089346, 40 seconds left
Drowzee [96]: 51.025810, -114.088498, 150 seconds left
1468980872.16 moving player
1468980872.33 found 1 pokemon
Zubat [41]: 51.022429, -114.089720, 853 seconds left
1468980872.83 moving player
1468980873.0 found 1 pokemon
Drowzee [96]: 51.021504, -114.087622, 799 seconds left
1468980873.5 moving player

But I am still not seeing anything: http://skiplagged.com/api/pokemon.php?bounds=51.023227,-114.116278,51.055393,-114.032850

Suggestion: Enable Hide Pokemon! While there are more and more populating these maps, the map gets very laggy in my browser and it would be nice to filter out those rattatas and pidgeys. :)

Also maybe add different icons like in the other scanners, a little bit bigger.

The names and sprites are not matching up right anymore.

I keep getting an error about unable to retrieve pdata1

Whoa. Great work! Who's paying the bill? ;)

Finally a relatively big company expressing its interest and willing to dedicate their servers and programming expertise to the cause of making a poke go map!

Although I have a question out of curiosity. How are you planning to keep updating the pokemon once the user who mapped a certain "bound" stops running the script?

I do have a good long-term solution for this if you would like to PM me for more info.

https://gyazo.com/a8a6763f60cfb01b920899ba642399a0

https://gyazo.com/8dddab1e858b6db394ec298e8452a3b1

i am so happy! i love you skiplagged!

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so now that it's live, can you tell me how i can help populate it with more pokemon? in an ELI5 version?

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Alright, running this.

Would like to ask though, could you implement a lookup so I can select an area and it tells me what time per day stuff spawns? That way people can see what time stuff spawns at their home/work.

I'm also trying to contribute, however i own a Synolgy NAS and would rather run it on there so it can run 24/7.

I copied the batch file from the nice fellow below which is

title Skiplagged Scan
:loop
start "Scanner" /i python example.py
timeout /t 1800 >null
taskkill /fi "WINDOWTITLE EQ Scanner"
goto loop

Can someone make this into a .sh file please? Because that's the only thing my synology can run.. Thanks i advance!

u/skiplagged could you please document changes to your api behavior?

I'm sticking to your project because it's the best to run to provide coverage to a local area without having to host stuff on my private devices. But compared to other projects, you're falling behind. Filters were promised a week ago and my little telegram bot is returning empty google static maps all the time because you seem to change the behaviour of your API twice a day ( use tighter bounds - nah, we're rounding now - we put the box in a box ).

My small bounds seemed to work fine after the rounding comments, but today I didn't get any results at all and I have to ask the server for a 2° by 2° box to get any results at all - but then I'll be screwed if there's more than 500 Pokemon in that box or what?

I think it's a fair deal that I can expect 20 API calls per day to work in exchange for running 6 scanners on my raspi for you, but with all the fiddling I have to do to get valid results, I could use the time and set up well-secured local hosting instead that will only benefit people I know.

Edit: Please don't get me wrong, I like your work and it's great that you're providing your corporate resources for free. Of course I also like improvements and progress, but just write it down somewhere how your API works. Thanks!

use this to easily get coordinates , guise

http://www.latlong.net/

what are your guys plan to share this aggregated information/generated insights? will we get a google map with spawn locations which we can test by changing time? i would be willing to switch over to this tool vs the other ones already posted here

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find_pokemon keeps failing on me, anyone seeing similar thing?

1468984697.91 called login_with_pokemon_trainer
('ptc', 'xxxx-sso.pokemon.com')
1468984698.89 called get_specific_api_endpoint
https://pgorelease.nianticlabs.com/plfe/408/rpc
1468984699.5 called get_profile
{u'username': u'xxxx', u'currency': {u'POKECOIN': 0, u'STARDUST': 0}, u'duration': 0.0074269771575928, u'creation_time': 1468978248301L}
1468984699.87 called find_pokemon
exception: failed to get requests

Can I make the live map jump to a certain location on load, by submitting some kind of argument? (like on the api?)

Installed and ran -- no pokemon showed up on the live site. :'(

Fantastic! Thanks so much for this! This tool refreshes much faster than the other map tool I was using. Though the sprites are harder to read than the other tool.

I don't know if this is easy or hard to do or possible, but can you make a one click deploy for heroku? I don't have a PC to download all this and get it working for my area.

Some features that would be nice:

Collect Pokestops\Gyms ( Can cache them as they never move )

Collect spawn points ( All\most spawn points are specific and spawn at XX every hour, thus negating the need to constantly be updating )

Ability to hide certain pokemon\gyms\pokestops

Ability to highlight certain pokemon

Wow, this map is amazing!

Two feature requests: filter in/out different pokemon less important, but change seconds to minutes and seconds

Thanks for your great service!

After editing example.py, I get this message:
1469036528.11 called login_with_pokemon_trainer
('ptc', 'TGT-1044917-rUC5HsSxVEdzvnRd2SnTwOxjVW6Nyebim1gYJBzATB9XQUUi9h-sso.pokemon.com')
1469036529.1 called get_specific_api_endpoint
https://pgorelease.nianticlabs.com/plfe/79/rpc
1469036529.56 called get_profile
exception: failed to retrieve profile

It is up in my area, I can log out / back in my phone just fine using my club account.

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Is the server down right now? I don't see anything popping up on the maps anywhere.

Can you make it mobile friendly where it use your location? It doesn't work right now.

EDIT: I'm dumb.

Hmm, I'm getting 'failed to get access_token'. Does this mean my secondary account was banned? Or just something temporary? I can log in fine with my main (google) account.

I'm getting this when i'm running the lib:

| 1469216976.86 called login_with_pokemon_trainer

  | exception: failed to retrieve specific api endpoint

Any ideas?

Is there a way to filter out pokemon?

Currently getting the following error:

1469273829.61 called login_with_pokemon_trainer
exception: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects    

Is there issues with the pokemon trainer login again or have they changed the api?

I'm getting this exception a lot http://imgur.com/a/GjHmO .

And I've been experiencing a lot of logins. Atleast 1 logout per minute. Not sure if it's cause of server stability

Which is better to use? The PHP or Python? My Python is working fine, but I was hoping there would be easier way to run multiple instances. Please advice.

u/skiplagged is there any plans to include pokestops/gyms? Not sure if thats what the purpose of this project is, but it would be useful to include those, and since they don't expire they'd only needs to be collected once in a while.

I'm really hoping you add pokemon filtering to the app ! Really hard to see some of them

Anyone have an implementation that uploads spawns found via PokemonGo-Map to Skiplagged?

anyone think they could wrap this up into an exe so that inexperienced users could participate in crowdsourcing?

Looks like your Android app was pulled.

Is this still working for anyone else???

Wow thx :3

For right now you might want to prepend the posted data with a pre tag to make it easier to read.

I would totally be up for this, but I dont really know how the gpsoauth module is used. Could you include that in the "example.py" ? Or just post quick tutorial for how to set it up here on reddit. Great work btw!

To look up the community generated data on wild pokemon, you can make requests like this: Central Park, New York City http://skiplagged.com/api/pokemon.php?address=central%20park,%20new%20york,%20ny

ah, yes...

pokemons: [ ],
duration: 0.015187978744507
}```

:V

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It had some stuff earlier.

BUT, is this something we should tie our main PoGo account to? Or should we make "data farming" accounts for these? I rather like my account and haven't done any API anything with it, and would love to not lose it.

God Job! I have a question, how i can convert those "expires" values into minutes?

I apologize. I am a beginner programmer,and not that familiar with much. All this data has to to be entered manually, or is there a way to capture it from in game?

What am I replacing in example.py ?

I replaced it with my username and password, and went to just test run it with the default NYC to see if it worked, but nothing is loading.

EDIT: Nevermind, it started loading after a while. Looks like Niantic server isn't working.

I have an android app with around 500+ users that can have all of them upload their gps coordinates. Do you have anything for java?

have been feeding some info in queens ny for an hour now, when do we get to see the fruits of our labor?

I don't know anything at all about coding, but iv managed to get https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/comments/4t8ohw/autoupdating_pokemon_go_map_scanner/ working.

How would I submit information to this map? I would like to do my best to help.

Currently have two accounts constantly scanning, I'd swap over to this but there's no filter option for the end user. Any plans for this on the horizon?

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Tried many locations (coordinate and address), but I always get this error:

1468984818.12 called login_with_pokemon_trainer
exception: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects    

Works well with one account, but I can't exec with multiples accounts at the same time : got this error

1468985211.0 called find_pokemon
exception: failed to get requests

No pokemon are showing up in Toronto, but I see plenty in U.S. Is this a U.S-only thing at the moment?

This is awesome. Thanks!

Apparently, i'm the only one in India using this. I'll tell my friends too :D

ok, up and running. I may move this to my amazon web services instance for uptime reasons. Question: can I have, say, 50 pokemon accounts doing 50 simultaneous areas running in 50 instances of this python script? The next step is scripting the creation of accounts to over more area...

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Do u store collected data and mark it on the map when u find pattern? For example lets say Pidgey spawns at XY every hour, will I be able to see him when i stop scanning?

just an idea, maybe an option for a target loop time for the while loop (configurable by the end user), and then if the loop finishes faster than that, the bound area grows, and if the loop is slower than the target time, the bound area shrinks? default target time of 180 or 360 seconds?

I love you so much right now! This helped me catch a Lapras in Central Park!

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Can we have a filter? I see too many Pidgeys, Rattatas, Zubats and Drowzees

I keep getting the following exceptions when running the script:

called login_with_pokemon_trainer exception: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects

Would there be any reason we couldn't use something like pokevision to map it out? Having to install stuff like Python and run it seems very unhelpful, I know how to do it but many others wont.

If you have it all web interface where people can click anywhere and if its new, it queries the API, if its existing it just loads what is expected that hour.

Hi I just notice it does not work with negative latitude. I'm not a programmer so can someone look into this?

So as soon as I stop running the script all pokemons that have been added - disappear (

Realistically how large of an area should we choose? I could probably leave this running on my server 24/7 - but if the area's too large would that be an issue?

I've just set a couple of runners going on my server and getting the following logs:

Zubat [41]: 51.924037, 0.922146, -280 seconds left
Weedle [13]: 51.924038, 0.921957, -188 seconds left
Rattata [19]: 51.924450, 0.922160, -289 seconds left
Spearow [21]: 51.924122, 0.921865, -161 seconds left
Pidgey [16]: 51.924530, 0.922447, -52 seconds left
Pidgey [16]: 51.924201, 0.922247, -137796 seconds left
Meowth [52]: 51.923785, 0.922612, 241 seconds left

As you can see there's a few negative values. My server's located in France (OVH) but the timezone is set to GMT.

If you can make this into a windows service that would run in the background without any batch file, it would be awesome. I can run it on a lot of machines and it would contribute significantly to everyone.

I've been through all the comments and haven't seen anyone else with this error. Any ideas?

Using a google email like:

print client.login_with_google('myemailhere@gmail.com', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx')

Error:

1469020942.73 called login_with_google
('google', 'xxxxxxxxxxx')
1469020943.41 called get_specific_api_endpoint
https://pgorelease.nianticlabs.com/plfe/382/rpc
1469020943.6 called get_profile
exception: failed to retrieve profile

By the way, that endpoint says it doesn't respond to GET requests:

HTTP ERROR: 405

Problem accessing /plfe/rpc. Reason:

HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL

Whatever I type in the search box returns as 'undefined', including items that Google has recognised and supplied back and the example address (central park,new york, ny), any ideas?

Is there anyway to add countries with no official version yet (in which people use APK) to this map?

With this running, any idea on the refresh rate on your map for this?

Running this in my area, but I'm probably the only person here doing it.

Curious as to when I can expect some results to appear

Edit - Appearing to be happening almost instantly now. Sweet.

undefined, ok (when clicking any suggested result or pressing enter, the text in the search box changes to "undefined" instantly and nothing happens)

• the location search doesn't work.

• would be SICK if you could search for specific pokemon and it would show you either the closest of the pokemon you look for, or (I'd much prefer this) only show the pokemon that you searched for on the map and hide all other pokemon. This way, you could even zoom out to see the entire world but would still be able to find and clearly see all known places the pokemon that you searched for is located.

• Also, im very (pleasantly) surprised to see a website like skiplagged show up here!

Doesn't seem like anything is populating west of the Mississippi. Logs are working fine on my end, but it's not showing up on the map. I changed coords to Roanoke, VA and it works fine. I'm the only one populating the area. Guessing it's not liking the -100's longitudes.

Seems to have been fixed. Sweet!

Can you add a feature where we can put multiple locations on a file, and the script loop on each location for 1 hour? I am currently using it with 4 accounts and log every pokemon I find, and I plan to map my entire region.

mmm. I can't seem to get it to work.

1469031179.13 called login_with_google

('google', 'SomeBigChunkOfData')

1469031179.67 called get_specific_api_endpoint

https://pgorelease.nianticlabs.com/plfe/118/rpc

1469031180.16 called get_profile

exception: failed to retrieve profile

I'm sure someone has asked this already and I may have missed it but will this be available for mobile. I can't install python on my work PC and no one is currently using this in downtown NYC. I'd like to start adding to the map for others to see.

It would be awesome to get a raspberry pi image up so people could just drop in some info and let it go to work.

If I have time I may work on it, but I'm not real optimistic on that...

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I submitted a PR yesterday to pass the settings in example.py as arguments :)

Is there a method to save the data sent to your server so it can be used in a local database as well? Thanks.

Running fine locally but getting 500 ISEs back from your site - map not showing much at the moment. Nice move to crowd source it all!

nice plan, console is showing it has found pokemons, but im not seeing any on the map. any idea?

I click the link and enable location services, but then I see nothing on the map. Am I doing something wrong?

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It is the API working? cause it always give me the same response:

{"pokemons":[],"duration":0.011300086975098}

exception: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'list' objects

For me, this sometimes seems to affect specific accounts. Using a new account on the same instance would make it work again. The affected account would throw the same error on other instances. After some time, it'll work again.

This is just what I'm observing, no idea what it's about.

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can someone post map for Yankton SD

RemindMe! 7 hours

Btw, any possibilities of using 1 single account for different scanning instances? I am currently running 3 using 1 single PTC login. It seems to work. Any drawback?

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Does it matter if i used a level 1 account for the sweeping? Does it influence certain pokemon not been able to be found?

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Bit of a noob question here:

• i installed python and pip and got the PATH working, but now when i enter pip install -r requirements.txt it says that the requirements.txt file can not be found (it is indeed not there in the folder). How i do i resolve this

I have 20 workers now, and i would like to save the data, to see all the spawned pokemons, like in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/comments/4tu584/some_spawn_location_research/

  Can you help me, how to modify the code, to write the spawns to a file?

Is the app pulling the data just from your device, or from the site? I'm not seeing the spawns uploaded from my worker instances.

I am running this and it's working well, however on the live map all pokemon stay, also the ones that say "Disappears in -131s" and are already gone. Any chance you could make it remove the pokemon that have expired?

Thanks

Whenever i go to my city on your website it doesn't load, but when its initially opened it spawns pokemon. What gives?

I've been trying to get this running on a raspberry Pi but its throwing up all sorts of errors.

after using Pip to install the requirements, running the example.py says it cant find any of the things that pip should have installed.

Im assuming that that its just not looking in the right place as all the requirements are installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages.

Any chance someone could write up a dummies guide just like u/drogean3 did for Windows?

I am getting an error when trying to run example.py.

EDIT: I found out how to fix the other issues. All of the print lines needed parenthesis.

Now however, I'm seeing "PokemonTrainerClub" object has no attribute "login_ptc".

I've verified everything with my newly setup PTC account.

Any ideas?

While I understand that the user base for this might be largest in 'Murica, it's a bit annoying that the map defaults to Manhattan instead of using your current location, as it was doing before? I now have to type in my local area every time, when before I just opened the website and started in the right area.

PS: thanks for setting this up! I'm keeping inner Copenhagen populated :-)

It's working very nice, thank you for this awesome tool. Is there any way on the Live Map to link locations in the URL ? And is there any recommended scope 1 script should do ? like 5km²

Got the script working and it logs in just fine, but then after a move or two I get 'exception: pokemons', and it reverts to logging in again.

It seems that it's failing to handle the pokemon when it finds them. so long as nothing is found it works fine..

Is there a maximum range for the square? Script is going quite good, but it seems not to check the whole area i've set.

thumbs up mate for the script..