Takealot Tracking Sensor?

[ebendl]

Hi all,

So as many here, I receive a lot of packages from Takealot and I was wondering if there's an integration for Home Assistant (or an API, or an existing package tracking service that works with Takealot) to track packages?

I would love to know what packages are arriving today (Between me and my wife) and do some sort of automation on it.

Of course, it would be helpful if it covers other local e-retailers too...

 

[chickenbeef]

The API follows:

https://api.takealot.com/rest/v-1-9-1/order/<ORDER NUMBER>/consignment/tracking/<WAYBILL NUMBER>

I haven't figured out a way to dynamically get the waybill number, previously you could just query the tracking details using the order number only.

 

[Tinuva]

The API follows:

https://api.takealot.com/rest/v-1-9-1/order/<ORDER NUMBER>/consignment/tracking/<WAYBILL NUMBER>

I haven't figured out a way to dynamically get the waybill number, previously you could just query the tracking details using the order number only.

Think I got it further as so:

curl 'https://api.takealot.com/rest/v-1-9-1/order/80570679/detail'   -H 'authority: api.takealot.com'   -H 'pragma: no-cache'   -H 'cache-control: no-cache'   -H 'accept: application/json'   -H 'x-csrf-token: 83388930'   -H 'x-tal-platform: www.takealot.com'   -H 'authorization: Bearer <<your own key here>>'   -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.67 Safari/537.36'   -H 'content-type: application/json'   -H 'origin: https://secure.takealot.com'   -H 'sec-fetch-site: same-site'   -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors'   -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty'   -H 'referer: https://secure.takealot.com/'   -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9'   --compressed | jq '.response.consignments[]|{waybill_number:.waybill_number}'

Output looks like this:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  1864    0  1864    0     0   5037      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5037
{
  "waybill_number": "MDX494515xx"
}
{
  "waybill_number": ""
}

 

[Tinuva]

Damn this actually gives some really good tracking.

 

[Tinuva]

Oh and you need to do the login POST to get the key to talk to the API. So its very possible to make this work actually...if you build your own custom home assistant integration. I would probably base it on the 17track module to automate it a bit, and store the login password in secrets.yaml or even better if you build a gui config for it.

 

[ebendl]

Very cool! Thanks for looking into it!!

I guess if you want to include it in in the Home Assistant releases then it needs to be a full integration with a GUI, and not just some YAML config. But a custom component on Github is a good place to start...

 

[ebendl]

Is there a way to get all the open deliveries, though?

I had a brief look into the 17track component (https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/seventeentrack/sensor.py) and they get all the open (undelivered) packages from the 17track API, while we would have to basically enter every Order / waybill somewhere.

 

[Tinuva]

Is there a way to get all the open deliveries, though?

I had a brief look into the 17track component (https://github.com/home-assistant/core/blob/dev/homeassistant/components/seventeentrack/sensor.py) and they get all the open (undelivered) packages from the 17track API, while we would have to basically enter every Order / waybill somewhere.

The takealot api has something I am sure. Just need to dig into the dev tools using the browser

 

[Tinuva]

Hmm takelot login uses a hidden recapctha