PokéSlack

Get Slack messages posted to a #pokealert channel for rare Pokemon close to you. Get walking directions from your search position and the time it expires.

Create your Slack Webhook

Create a new webhook for a channel named #pokealerts
https://my.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook/
And use the web hook url as the SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL in your .env / Heroku config.

Configuration

Create an .env file at the project root with the following content filled out. Do not use your main PokemonGo account information.

AUTH_SERVICE=google/ptc
USERNAME=account@gmail.com
PASSWORD=password
LOCATION_NAME=Some location, USA
RARITY_LIMIT=3
DISTANCE_LIMIT=0.5
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXX

Pokemon Data

This project contains a file pokedata.csv where you can customize the assigned rarity to each Pokemon. Receive notifications for any Pokemon with rarity at RARITY_LIMIT or higher and distance (in miles) less than DISTANCE_LIMIT.

Running

Locally:

pip install -r requirements
python main.py

Using Heroku:

heroku local 

Deploying to Heroku

Ideas for improvement

• Immediately send an alert for found Pokemon meeting the alert criteria instead of waiting for the entire scan pass to be complete
• Use distance (plus a buffer, since distance is calculated via a straight line) and walking speed (3 mph) compared with expiration time to calculate if you can walk there in time, then send a notification. Can then eliminate the distance limit.
• Nicer Slack messages with images to the Pokemon, and a static Google map image of where the Pokemon is in comparison to the search position

Credits

This project builds on existing PokemonGo APIs and integrations:
https://github.com/tejado/pgoapi
https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map