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lyft-cli

Simple implementation of a CLI against the Lyft API that implements OAuth2 and allows for URL-based calls.

To run this sample code, you'll need to install the following python libraries:

This modified version has a workaround to support the Basic Auth headers that Lyft requires during the OAuth process.

You can install the above by running:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Getting Started

Create a Lyft App.

Specify your Lyft App keys and tokens in a new config file named .lyft. There is a sample config file named .lyft.sample:

Run the python script in the project directory:

python Lyft.py

Requests

Public

The below methods are documented at https://developer.lyft.com/docs.

GET /eta?lat=47.587681&lng=-120.393384&ride_type=lyft

GET /rides?start_time=2015-01-01T00%3A00%3A00%2B00%3A00

Private

The below methods are what the Lyft app uses, and can be seen using this technique.

PUT https://api.lyft.com/users/222669192517078410/location

{"marker":{"lat":47.58755990190871,"lng":-120.3912808076761},"appInfoRevision":"","locations":[{"speed":-1,"lng":-120.3912808076761,"fg":false,"recordedAt":"2016-05-03T07:06:07Z","lat":47.58755990190871,"accuracy":65,"userMode":"passenger"}]}

Response can be found in the user.json file

GET /notifications?screenWidth=475&screenHeight=667

GET /venues?lat=47.58754000929794&lng=-120.391293869279 HTTP/1.1

Issues

  • Not having a user endpoint means its difficult (impossible?) to integrate into standard OAuth libraries (python-social-auth)

  • Reliance on Basic Auth client:secret header isn't standard for OAuth2, is it?

  • 3-legged auth: state is required, even if it's not useful/dummy param. Otherwise OAuth fails.

  • Swagger support to auto-generate stubs for Lyft API in Python is poor, because:

    • YAML support is scarse (JSON format more readily supported)
    • YAML support over HTTP was even more scare (couldn't find a library that did it)
    • Support for OAuth2 with "Basic Auth" step is unsupported/uncommon

  • swagger.io site (linked to from docs) doesn't successfully auth and/or make requests

  • For basic samples, need .bashrc to have:

    export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages