'Is there a way to get Google Maps Shared Locations via API?
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
Solution 1:[1]
Shared locations are not available via Google Maps API at the moment. There is a feature request in Google issue tracker for this:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/62938530
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Solution 2:[2]
Unofficial Python library for this that's based on session cookies. Who knows how long that'll last:
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| Solution | Source |
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| Solution 1 | xomena |
| Solution 2 | xd1936 |