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lexapi 0.0.1
An API for the Lex app
Requires Python: >=3.8

Lex API
=======

``` {.shell}
pip install lexapi
```

[Lex](https://thisislex.app) is a personal ads service for queer people.
It\'s a brilliant service, and if you fall under the target groups you
should definitely go check it out.

This is a Python 3 API created from the work I did between early-mid
2020, gathering the web request data the app sent from my phone. Because
of this work I was able to alert the Lex team one possible privacy
vulnerability from the service, which has since been removed.

This work was performed with the help of Android-86x, and
[mitmproxy](http://mitmproxy.org).

Lex relies on Google\'s Identity toolkit and Firebase to handle
authentication, and relies on Chatkit to handle messaging, through a
websockets interface.

Currently this API supports probably about half of the available
functions, including feed-viewing and user profile updating. See [Lex
API/Currently missing](id:0c2915c7-e3d5-4a80-95af-0c78880dd823)

The functions are all named after their respective calls, so you can use
[Lex-api](lex-api.org) for examples of the expected responses.

Docmentation of the API calls themselves, along with IdentityToolkit
authentication, and information about X-Goog-Spatula are contained in
[lex-api](lex-api.org), the code itself should be clean enough to
extend, but please open an issue if there\'s anything re: code style,
etc. that I\'ve messed up. Literally any improvements or iterations
would be nice :)

This readme wouldn\'t be complete without a **huge** thanks to the Lex
team for making such a cool and unique service :)

Example
-------

``` {.python}
# Importing:

    from lexapi import LexAPI
    lex = LexAPI()

# Logging in:

    # Pass the user's phone number
    lex.send_verification_code(phone_number)
    # User gets a message with the auth code, so now we can pass it
    lex.verify_phone_number(verification_code)
    # We are now logged in to the service, but we need the user's feed
    # preferences to get the feed, so:
    lex.get_user()

# Refreshing the token:

    lex.refresh_token()

# Getting the feed:

    lex.get_feed()

# or alternately:

    filters = {
        'max_age': 32,
        'filters': 'foo, bar'
    }
    lex.get_feed(filters)
```

Currently missing {#currently-missing id="0c2915c7-e3d5-4a80-95af-0c78880dd823"}
-----------------

Currently missing functionality is:

-   Username / Instagram logging in, and logging out (It\'s on my TODO)
-   Because of the limitations of mitmproxy, and the updates to the
    service, posting new personals is not supported (It\'s on my TODO
    list to jury-rig something with HTTP/2 support so we can support
    adding new posts).
-   Because of the method they use with Chatkit, viewing anything but
    the most and posting messages cannot, and will not be supported by
    this API, as it requires a private encryption key stored in the
    application.