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Re:My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love by bravura on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:39PM (#14665223)
Slight tangent, but how do you script interaction with a mobile app like Tinder?

For the web, you use a headless browser. But what about automating interaction with mobile?

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Re:My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love by swiley on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:47PM (#14665306)
People have reverse engineered the API, there are libraries for it on github.
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Re:My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love by _e on Thursday June 29, 2017 @02:07PM (#14665503)
Bingo. Use wireshark to identify the protocol and if it is http then use mitmproxy.
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Re:My Failed Attempt at Engineering Love by d4nt on Thursday June 29, 2017 @01:47PM (#14665309)
Pure speculation: you could run an Android VM and used an automated testing framework to drive it
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