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Re:Pokemon Go API by FungalRaincloud on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:48AM (#12153600)
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.
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Re:Pokemon Go API by danielrmay on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:55AM (#12153618)
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.
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Re:Pokemon Go API by flashman on Sunday July 24, 2016 @11:41PM (#12156335)
Botters aren't as big a threat to Niantic's business as the shortcomings of their own technical infrastructure.

When that changes, watch out.

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Re:Pokemon Go API by Fiahil on Sunday July 24, 2016 @03:57PM (#12154568)
They can't produce a bug-free version of their game, already. Why would they start implementing automated systems to ban people?
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