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Use me.com "find my iPhone" programmatically

Hello!

My wife, my 9 year old and myself, have an iPhone with me.com subscriptions. One of the "killer features" (at least for me) in iOS 3.0 was the "find my iPhone" feature. I would like to create some kind of tool that will periodically try out the find my iPhone service and I could create some kind of database of all the places our 3 iPhones have been to during the day. Does anyone have any ideas on how to easily build such a service?

Thank!

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You can check findmyiphone - what's a ruby ​​script, or similar projects in php or java



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ATT has a family map function. It costs $ 10 months to track up to 2 phones and I think $ 15 to track up to 5. I tried it, it works really well. I thought it was a little creepy at first, but you can only keep track of the phone numbers associated with your account. Also, as soon as the number is followed, text is sent to that number informing them, and also text is sent to the main number in the account. att.com/familymap



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It is unlikely that there is a public API to read the location of any iPhone at any time, as that would be a stalker's dream.

If you have me.com credentials for all the phones in your household, you can probably clear information from the WebKit / IE control when it shows the Find My iPhone page.

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Instead, you can sign up for Google Latitude. This can provide much of the location functionality you are looking for without having to write anything yourself. www.google.com/latitude

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Your best bet is probably to figure out how to clean up the mobileMe site, as that's really the only thing you could ask your phone where it is. You will need to create an application that simulates the login and then parses the results from the mobileMe site.

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