On Reddit’s PokemonGoDev subreddit, some players said that they were allowed to solve a captcha and then the app started working. There have also been some unconfirmed rumblings that some apps may be fixing the captcha issue, including PokeAlert. These maps work best when a lot of people are using them. These apps intercept data sent to Niantic and record where players are finding Pokemon.
Other maps that are crowdsourced, rather than API-based, also still work. You can see a detailed description on how it works on Reddit here. For this atlas, trainers send in the locations where they find Pokemon. The Silph Road’s Nest Atlas is one option. However, scanners that do not access the API do still work. All scanners are down and fixing the API is going to take a long time. The message is the same from most other developers. I see there are some efforts to pick up what i started, the api might be reversed sooner than expected. They said on Twitter it would take at least two weeks minimum to come back, but the developer later tweeted that he found some people to help and might have the service up sooner than expected: If you use one of these, your account might be softbanned or perma-banned, especially if you use a service that requires a Pokemon Go login to work.ĭo Any Alternative Scanners & Maps Still Work?įastPokeMap is working on getting back online so trainers can start using the service again. It’s worth bearing in mind that any third-party app that accesses Niantic’s servers is likely breaking TOS. I get that in new areas some Pokemon are impossible to find without it, but damn. Not even close too spoofing, but I’ve heard some people say they had caught 5 Snorlax’s in one night on the app, which just gives you such an unfair advantage in gyms. Dangerdave120 wrote on Reddit:įor me I Feel like it’s cheating. They said that third-party maps and scanners are a form of cheating, so they don’t feel bad that the services no longer work. This company is just terrible imo.īut in the other threads, other trainers said they feel differently about the whole thing. I guess I’m done then, i am not going to mindlessly walk around looking for Pokemon that are on my sightings. Without FastPokeMap I wouldn’t have been playing this game as long as I have. The new Recaptcha security feature has shut down some players’ favorite maps and scanners. Now Niantic has disabled access through a new forced security update that’s affecting almost all third-party scanners. This took a lot of apps down for a while, but they were just starting to restore service when a new problem emerged. Problems with these apps and web maps first started cropping up when FastPokeMap developers disabled other scanners’ access to its API because the developers said it was draining their servers. Pokemon Go players sometimes used third-party trackers and scanners, like FastPokeMap, to locate nearby Pokemon.
Does anything still work? And do any of the options not violate TOS?Īll Scanners & Maps That Accessed Niantic’s Servers Are Down A lot of other scanners and maps went down with it, including Quickmap, PokeAlert, OpenPokeMap, PokeEye, ScanGo, and more. FastPokeMap, a favorite Pokemon Go scanner, has been broken after the most recent Pokemon Go security update.
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