Google Maps has a wonderful Contact Location Sharing feature. Does anyone know if this data is available programmatically? It would would be helpful to have access to mine and my wife's location for things like Home Automation or scripting
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Unofficial Python library for this that's based on session cookies. Who knows how long that'll last:
There is no official API, but someone created a cool Python package locationsharinglib to extract this information from the Google Maps internal browser app.
Install
pip install locationsharinglib
Usage:
from locationsharinglib import Service
cookies_file = 'cookies.txt'
google_email = '<your google username>@gmail.com'
service = Service(cookies_file=cookies_file, authenticating_account=google_email)
for person in service.get_all_people():
print(person)
cookies.txt file
You need to sign out, and manually sign into your Google account. Then browse to google.com/maps and extract from your "google.com" cookies and save it as
cookies.txt- Checkout this chrome extension to help export such file very easily
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