> If that's all so, could the PoGo devs simply enforce some type of device authentication to 'shut down' these APIs, or otherwise take different steps to make u

> If that's all so, could the PoGo devs simply enforce some type of device authentication to 'shut down' these APIs, or otherwise take different steps to make unofficial APIs less compatible/more difficult/effectively impossible? I sincerely hope that they don't do that, or at least not 'shut it down' completely. The reason is that there are some use cases for this API which don't involve cheating, for example the many different Pokemon Go server status pages including one that I built myself [1]. 1 - https://pokemongostatus.org/ https://pokemongostatus.org/