Export from Automatic

README.md

Automatic.com is shutting down their connected car tracking device and service, and there isn't a one-button data export!

You'll need a few things to get your trip data out:

https://developer.automatic.com/

1. Sign up for an app, name it whatever you like.
2. Generate a test token and save this, generate the "OAuth Authorize URL", and go there to get an OAuth authorization code
3. Create the "Example CURL for OAuth Access Token", paste in your OAuth auth code, and run it. save your 'access token'

install the 'automatic-client' and 'json' gem.

put your access token in launcher.sh below

read exporter.rb and make sure you like it

./launcher.sh

Wait a bit, see some http request debug information scroll by, and once it finishes...

enjoy JSON representations of all of your trips for future use.

If you want the path data, you'll want to use https://github.com/joshuaclayton/polylines to decode it

exporter.rb

require 'automatic/client'
require 'json'

trips = Automatic::Models::Trips.all

trips.each do |trip|
  File.open("trips/#{trip.id}.json","w") do |f|
    f.write(trip.to_json)
  end
end

launcher.sh

export API_HOST='https://api.automatic.com'
export AUTOMATIC_ACCESS_TOKEN='yourtoken123'
mkdir trips
ruby exporter.rb