PokeNotifier-Whatsapp

Notifier for Pokemon Go, get updates about appearing pokemon in your city via Whatsapp, based on PokemonGo-Map. More about it in this blog post.

This is not a native plugin, extension or fork of PokemonGo-Map, it's merely a script that accesses a running map server.

One advantage is that you can simply update the server by redeploying it to Heroku and hack around in the script locally, or run it when needed.

After installing and configuring as follows, you can start it with simply running

python pokenotifier.py

Notice: Using PokemonGo-Map is probably against the TOS and you may get banned from Pokemon Go.

Installation

First, head over to PokemonGo-Map and deploy the app to Heroku or similar, do a full installation. You'll need the following:

a throwaway Google account (or pokemon trainer account - for the Pokemon Go login, don't use your real account, the one used here has some risk of getting banned)
a Heroku account (or other account for deployment, or set it up locally)
Google Maps API key, just follow the tutorial over at PokemonGo-Map: Google Maps API key

Configuration

All configuration is in config.json. If repeat is set to true, the configuration will be reloaded each time the script runs, so changes to rare_pokemon or server-URL will be applied in the next run without restarting.

{
    "rare_pokemon": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151],
    "coords": {
        "ne": [46.9629, 7.466357],
        "sw": [46.9429, 7.437958]
    },
    "server": "https://your-map-server.herokuapp.com",
    "whatsapp": {
        "sender": "41791234567",
        "sender_pw": "3jHkhGHVIJF4dDIBIkhbjg87jkbb=",
        "recipient": "41791234567-1442956787"
    },
    "repetition": {
        "repeat": true,
        "delay_sec": 10
    }
}

Some explanation:

All pokemon you specify in rare_pokemon will trigger a notification once found. You can build your own list by adding pokemon ids (using a list like pokewiki.de). The notification will be only triggered once per encounter.
If repeat is set to false, the script will run only once. This will be useful if you want to run it via cron or something.
The coordinates are specified as a rectangle, so you'll specify the upper right corner with the ne tuple and the lower left with sw.
Whatsapp sender and sender_pw have to be configured as follows.
Whatsapp Recipient can be a single number or a group, see configuration below.

Whatsapp / Yowsup

For whatsapp notifications, you'll need the following:

a separate, activated SIM card (and a phone for getting a one-time registration sms)
the yowsup library

Install Yowsup

First, install yowsup in the directory this file lies:

git clone https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup
cd yowsup
python setup.py install

After building (this may take a while), the yowsup folder should now be a subfolder and contain a file named yowsup-cli, which we're gonna need for registration and sending messages.

Register number

The registration is needed to send messages. You'll need to first send a request for registration, this will send you a SMS with a code, and then send that code for confirmation. --cc is the country code flag, you'll need to set it accordingly (41 is Switzerland).

Request registration SMS:

yowsup-cli registration --requestcode sms --phone 41791234567 --cc 41

yowsup-cli registration --register xxx-xxx --phone 41791234567 --cc 41

You'll then receive a confirmation:

status: ok kind: free pw: 3jHkhGHVIJF4dDIBIkhbjg87jkbb= price: CHF 1.00 price_expiration: 1472454114 currency: CHF cost: 1.00 expiration: 4444444444.0 login: 41791234567 type: new

The important part is the pw. Test if it worked by sending a sample text to the number specified with -s:

yowsup-cli demos -l 41791234567:3jHkhGHVIJF4dDIBIkhbjg87jkbb= -s 41793214567 'Hello Whatsapp!'

If everything went well you should receive a message and you can plug in sender and sender_pw in config.json.

Sending to a group

You can also send to a group. To do this, first add your sender nr. to a new group, then find the id of that group:

yowsup-cli demos --yowsup -l 41791234567:3jHkhGHVIJF4dDIBIkhbjg87jkbb=
/L              # login
/groups list    # the group number will show up as id, something like 41791234567-1442956787