Niantic managed to take down all third party scanners with their recent security update. Bots did not escape the onslaught as well. In order to bypass the new API, reverse engineer is needed. The lack of interest from reversing community is troubling, but this is not surprising as Niantic has made it very clear that they are not happy with third party services accessing their servers.
Basically there's no one trying to reverse the 0.39 api, everyone gave up. Niantic's constant lock down just tired everyone.
— FastPokeMap Official (@FastPokeMapCom) October 9, 2016
FastPokeMap is Working on a Fix
There is still hope for third party scanners. The developer behind FastPokeMap is working diligently to reverse it himself.
Update of the day: Well no one was helping but I managed to get a lot done today. If i end up reversing this alone i'm not sharing with any1
— FastPokeMap Official (@FastPokeMapCom) October 9, 2016
However, he did mention in a tweet that if he managed to reverse engineer the API, he will not share it out as no one wants to help. FPM managed to hire some help and got a lot done within these few days. There might be good news pretty soon.
FastPokeMap’s Latest Update
FPM developer has identified the algorithm which is actually the Pseudorandom Number Generator (PRNG) algorithm used in old Pokémon games.
So apparently the used algo is actually the prng algo used in old Pokémon games.
— FastPokeMap Official (@FastPokeMapCom) October 12, 2016
If everything works out, the biggest Pokémon Go map scanner, FastPokeMap might be up and running within two days.
We should be running again by friday/saturday. Testing everything
— FastPokeMap Official (@FastPokeMapCom) October 12, 2016
At the meantime, there are still some community based Pokémon Go maps that are still working.
