Flying SquidiFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them
krayjThere’s already a link to the vid talking about the utter bullshit and corruption surrounding the McD’s ice cream machines posted in this thread, but here’s a resource I haven’t seen posted yet: an online tracker to find out if your local McD’s ice cream machine is working or broken right now.
(love the domain name)
XTornadoHow do they get the data?
iirc it used to get it through a reverse engineering of the McDonald’s app api. Not sure about now tho
If its the one I know, it sends an online ice cream request through the API, and then cancels the successful ones before they reach the stores. The unsuccessful ones are broken machines, essentially.
They reverse engineered the ordering API (that the app uses) and try to add a McSundae to an online order. If the ice cream machine is broken, it won’t let you add that item to an order for the specific location. If the McSundae machine is working, it will let you add that item to the order for the designated location.
It updates each location every 30 minutes, so is very up to date.
More details about it here: hypebeast.com/…/mcbroken-site-mcdonalds-ice-cream…
