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costastf / locationsharinglib

A library to retrieve coordinates from an google account that has been shared locations of other accounts.
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More precisions about "get-maps-cookies" #76

Closed guillaumecardon closed 4 years ago

guillaumecardon commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I'm reading doc about installation and usage of your library. Unfortunetaly, i think it miss some parts to understand how the library works.

In this page : https://locationsharinglib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html we see cookies_file = 'FILE_CREATED_BY_MAPSCOOKIEGETTERCLI_AUTHENTICATION_PROCESS'

What is this "cookie file" ? After some searches in "closed issues" section, we need to use "get-maps-cookies" but what is it ? Where is documentation about this ?

Thanks for your help :-)

linuxnico commented 4 years ago

i find this: https://pypi.org/project/mapscookiegettercli/

costastf commented 4 years ago

Hi, apologies for missing this issue, I did not get a notification for it. The documentation needs updating. The cookie file mentioned is a file from a browser extension after you successfully log in interactively with your credentials in Google maps. Hope that helps in clarifying.

guillaumecardon commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your answers. After some searches, i found the previous link given by linuxico. Thanks to that, i discover i need python3.7.. and a graphical browser...

I think it was easy to get google sharing location on my raspberry headless... and finally, i need to install a third party library on another OS ... 😄

It doesn't really matter, but it's confusing compared to initial readme of locationsharinglib 😉

costastf commented 4 years ago

Hi, you do not need a browser on your raspberry and it is easy to get it running, but you do need Python 3.7. you can extract the cookies from any computer and provide them to the library. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_maps/ documents how the component is set up for home Assistant but the directions are the same up until you get a valid cookie file. That is what you need to provide to the library. I hope this helps. If you need more details please let me know.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 10:02 guillaumecardon notifications@github.com wrote:

Thanks for your answers. After some searches, i found the previous link given by linuxico. Thanks to that, i discover i need python3.7.. and a graphical browser...

I think it was easy to get google sharing location on my raspberry headless... and finally, i need to install a third party library on another OS ... 😄

It doesn't really matter, but it's confusing compared to initial readme of locationsharinglib 😉

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