Agreed. Googling 'pokemon go lvl20' shows a bunch of accounts for sale already, if people are buying them the motivation to keep botting will be there.
Re:Pokemon Go API
by FungalRaincloud on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:48AM
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The best way to handle this is with account-specific API keys. Even that would just mean creating an account, and the only real benefit to that is that you could track the API key, and if it did "bot-like" things, ban it. That's not really a fix, just a barrier for entry, preventing poorly thought out bots from working.
Re:Pokemon Go API
by danielrmay on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:55AM
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I'm pretty sure this already exists. These APIs have been in development for a couple of weeks now and as far as I can tell (from watching the /r/pokemongodev subreddit) there haven't been any bans. Niantic, at present, don't appear to have any automated system attempting to catch bot-like behavior.
Botters aren't as big a threat to Niantic's business as the shortcomings of their own technical infrastructure.
When that changes, watch out.
That's impossible. If you try this you'll either have a bunch of false positives or even more likely a patched api around 12 hours later. Never underestimate the dedication of botters. There are multiple headless WoW Apis around for 10 years now and Blizzard isn't able to close them out.