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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by jacalata on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:16AM (#7590700)
Uber has a mobile website - you could either scrape the site (probably much easier than trying to scrape an app) or capture the traffic and build your own kind of API. There's a service called gargl that says they do that kind of thing, although I haven't got around to looking at them yet.
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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by xivzgrev on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:10AM (#7596351)
Hm interesting! I had not heard of gargl - may check it out. This is a hard feature to implement without their permission. There is a benefit to Uber / Lyft, if there was a direct link to their apps.

Stack overflow q said exactly same thing - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878609/is-it-possible-t...

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