I want to know whether I can use uber api to track the ride real-time basis. I have found uber help suggest the following:
"Can I see the path a rider took during a trip?"
This feature is only available for ongoing UberPOOL rides. The request details return a set of waypoints (incl. pickup and dropoff locations) for each UberPOOL ride. This information is not accessible in the history but just during the ride.
So does it mean it is not applicable to other types of ride? Please let me know. It will be great if someone can suggest exact API endpoint for tracking the ride on a real-time basis.
Thanks.
It can be checked for any type of ride that you've requested
The Ride Request endpoint allows retrieving the status of an ongoing or completed trip that was created by your app
You have a few different options
Ride Request - Map API
Ride Request - Current API
Ride Request - Details API
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There is no option in uber api documentation to schedule rides for future.
But the following products provide Uber pre-booking:
https://www.ridesharp.co/
https://www.trykommen.com/
How is this possible?
They are just providing their own mechanism to 'schedule' a ride. All they are doing is storing the time & details for the request and then making the request call at the appointed time. There is no scheduled ride API.
Any API for getting invoice for completed rides in uber? I have checked the uber API docs couldn't find any.
For rider history, you could call the /history endpoint (https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/history-get) but this does not include fare details.
If your app is the origin of the trips, you can call /receipt endpoint for each trip via https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/requests-request_id-receipt-get
If you are looking to get all trips including fare details and they are not coming from your app ID, unfortunately that is not available. "The receipt endpoint will only provide receipts for ride requests originating from your application. It is not currently possibly to receive receipt data for all trips."
For a non-api solution you can look at past trips including fare details in your app or on the web at https://riders.uber.com/trips. Hope this helps!
Is it possible to use the Uber API to detect rides that originated from the Uber app?
I'm trying to get a machine learning system to learn when you are using uber.
No, whether a ride originated from the Uber app or from a separate integration is not a field/endpoint in the current Uber API.
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but something that might be helpful is the /history endpoint. "The User Activity endpoint returns a limited amount of data about a user’s lifetime activity with Uber. The response will include pickup and dropoff times, the city the trips took place in, the distance of past requests, and information about which products were requested."
Documentation: https://developer.uber.com/docs/riders/references/api/v1.2/history-get
I am using Uber's webhooks to trigger retrieving ride information using uber API. Although if the ride's destination changes when the ride is in progress, I don't get a hook callback. And once the ride is completed, the start and destination information is not available in ride details.
Is there a way to get this information (rather than keep polling the API every few seconds?)
You should receive the location information in the 'in_progress' webhook. We do not currently fire event if destination changes so the only way to discover is to poll the /requests/current end point. Uber API will not return the final location after the trip has been completed or via the history endpoint (though you can see the pickup location).
I have created a Uber app(Rides API) and using server token i can able to get
Price and Time estimates.
How can I schedule a driver using Uber api?
If you want to make a request for a ride, you need to POST to /requests. Like agraebe said, you can find documentation on that endpoint here.
This page also has a tutorial on requesting a ride, and the lifecycle of a request, walking you through step by step how requests work.