BiciMAD (Madrid) need an accessToken

[Manu1400]

actual code

• https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/master/pybikes/bicimad.py
• https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/master/pybikes/data/bicimad.json

source

https://gitlab.com/mobilitylabsmadrid/helps_and_utilities/openapi_documents/-/blob/master/utilities/DEVELOPERS.postman_collection.json#L580-L581

documentation: other issue about BiciMAD

#428

[eUgEntOptIc44]

Hi @Manu1400 @eskerda

TL;DR It took me quite a while but I managed to fix this. -> please see eUgEntOptIc44@66efe06

Unfortunately adding the accessToken mentioned by @Manu1400 didn't worked for me. It seems to be a placeholder or leftover from testing with Postman while documenting the api. Anyways the authentication fails and a error is returned.

So I dug deeper to discover that a account is required to generate a token. The token is only valid during the session. Furthermore a valid (Spanish?) mobile number is required to verify the account. All in all bad news for a possible integration into pybikes.

Searching the 'news' section of Madrid's Mobility Labs I discovered a map dashboard powered by ArcGIS at mynavega.emtmadrid.es. Despite the slightly dated impression it's fully functional and using some sort of proxy/loadbalancer to use the api data endpoints.

So using https://mynavega.emtmadrid.es/services/api/BiciMadrid/GetAllStationsInfo with the referrer header set to https://mynavega.emtmadrid.es/?locale=es works to get the bike sharing data. 🥳

However I had to implement some minor adaptions to access the json encoded results within the json encoded request answer. This seems to be caused by the mentioned proxy/loadbalancer used for the map.

[eskerda]

So I dug deeper to discover that a account is required to generate a token. The token is only valid during the session. Furthermore a valid (Spanish?) mobile number is required to verify the account. All in all bad news for a possible integration into pybikes.

We accept implementations requiring an access token, as long as this access token is something that can be reasonably accessed. See https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/master/pybikes/cyclocity.py for an example

I will dug deeper into their android app to see if there's any shortcut. While not ideal, I think it's reasonable to expect a token from https://mobilitylabs.emtmadrid.es/es/portal/mobilitylabs