POKEMON GO API CHANGE - Reason for not working bots maps

[coupdegrace23]

Thank you for help and good job

[NexLegend]

not sure if op is a badass 1337-h4x0r or just copied necro statement

Regardless, OP posted this first, while Necro was posting about having a fix ready in 3 minutes lol. Only after this came up did anyone announce 24h minimum.

[eazyCv]

Cause I don't post here?
This is a hacking forum not developer forum.

I'm doing my job on GitHub, on PokemonGo developer reddit and on my VPS doing terminal linux jobs and at least even compiling latest sources by myself and trying to check if it is working.

Thanks man , really have love for all fokes contributing to everyone here .

[iFlame]

Thanks bro for your explanation and does this also mean the Rocket API need to be changed?

Yeah, that's what needs the changes since it's the part that communicates with the server, it needs to be updated to act like the new app does.

[riceshocker]

anyone got a updated apk?:c nox says my device isnt compatible via app store... so... er...

there's a tut on their website. but the short answer is..update nox, go to nox sys settings > properties and modify the settings, download the new apk from 3rd party apk site.

[Slash182]

Thank you for the explanation! It's good to get the info from an expert. Some idiots were claiming it doesn't work because of a ddos -_-

[guskoky]

I noticed this as well

[camsha]

Maybe some of you should.. start playing the game!

[dabnoj]

Maybe some of you should.. start playing the game!

wich game?

[MisterNinja]

The maps part has changed yes, but other request still seem to work, for example the PokeBot.Ninja has Inventory manager which still works currently.

[xoreyo]

Niantic has now began to obfuscate the API answers. This means that we will need to update the POGOProtos and implement the new hash b1f2bf509a025b7cd76e1c484e2a24411c50f0612.

Reverse Engineering an App with SSL Pinning is hard to do, thanks to git user rastapasta & cstrachan88 we able to bypass these security measures.

Niantic took a big step to block Bots. But we are sure this is bypassable.

Sorry for the inconvienience.

from Necrobot Discord

[mewsupe]

it was displaying the message since yesterday when it was working for others

[damein17]

thanks for the info

[kalengsayur]

what should we do next sir
plese help us

[Fadelol]

I tried to write an ELI5 from what seems to be the established idea of what have happened:

The Pokemon App and the server speak with each other using an API. You can compare it to them sharing a common and defined language. What Niantic has done is implement a new language that the client(the iOS or Android app) and server(Niantic side) should speak with. In fact, they did so a couple of days ago together with one of the updates for the app and everybody who has been using the newer versions of the app have been speaking that language since then. However, because everybody does not download the app straight away to learn this new language, they allowed for a grace period in which both languages were allowed. Today they decided that they had given enough time to let everybody learn this new language and forced an update for those who had still not done so (i.e. if you were on a too old version of Pokemon Go you were forced to update).

Now this new language may or may not be more complex than the old one. But it is different. The app and the server knows it because Niantic taught them both and have no problem speaking with each other using the new language. But the bots don't. So the developers of the bots have to find a way to learn this language and implement it into the bots so that they can speak with the server again. We do not now know how long this will take but probably a little while.