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Integrate a world-class local delivery platform into your app using the Postmates API.

Using the Postmates Delivery API, developers can integrate our on-demand local delivery platform into their applications. The API is designed to allow application developers to check prices, schedules, book a delivery, then follow updates on that delivery till completion.

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Postmate API not working

I am using postmates API for my book store. I am using their test credentials, but I don't know how to use it. Kindly guide me how can I make a basic api call. I am using PHP. I want to send post data using cURL Thank you
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Inquire deliveries created from Postmates App/website

From POS system point of view, how do I list Postmates deliveries which were CREATED from Postmates app or Postmates website? Via Postmates documentation, it seems like I can only list deliveries which I created myself, but I can't list deliveries…
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Postmates, How to create a list inside a application/x-www-form-urlencoded parameter

I'm trying to work with an API which is lightly documented here: https://postmates.com/developer/docs/#resources__delivery__create-delivery It uses multipart form data (x-www-form-urlencoded). They also have a tutorial here, kind of, for using…
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Postmate : schedule a create delivery

I want to schedule a delivery rather than the ETA time provided by the POSTMATE api in response. Because the customer wants a delivery at some specific time. How to schedule a ETA? I didn't found a documentation for it in postmate api…
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Postmates - Security CAPTCHA Error in Postmates API

I need to integrate Postmates API in my ruby on rails application. I am constantly receiving an error of CAPTCHA when I hit the delivery quotes API The request is https://api.postmates.com/v1/customers/my_customer_id/delivery_quotes error…
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Creating a quote in Postmates - duration and pickup_duration fields

When we create a quote for delivery in Postmates, the response returns 2 params: duration and pickup_duration. Does duration include pickup_duration or duration is delivery estimation only for the route from the store to the customer and doesn't…
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List of Deliveries and Create Delivery POSTMATE API having same URL

In PM Documentation URL of create and list of deliveries are same i.e, vi/customer/customerid/deliveries
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What is returned by the post mates tracking_url when the Creaete Delivery API is called

I am looking into integrating with the Postmates API. Their documentation lists states that the Create a Delivery API returns a tracking url: tracking_url: This url can be used to track the courier during the delivery However, this does not…
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Postmates API mismatched_price_quote error

We keep getting an error as followed when attempting to dispatch deliveries: mismatched_price_quote: 'The price quote specified doesn't match the delivery.' ({'kind': 'error', 'code': 'mismatched_price_quote', 'message': "The price quote…
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Personalizing My Postmates Delivery Experience (for better tips)

I've found that one of the best ways to make extra tips driving for Postmates is to add a personal touch. For example, texting the classic I haz Cheezburger meme when I'm on the way with the food usually results in a better tip (mileage may…
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Postmates API not working

I am using postmates Delivery Quote API for the last one year, And it is working good by the time when I checked. But now it seems to be not working It is throwing an exception with an HTML text with some enable cookies and captcha I can't…
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Passing variable in curlopt_url

I want to pass a variable in CURLOPT_URL, here is my code $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt_array($curl, array( CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.postmates.com/v1/customers/cus_KtQih0aARUZXdk/deliveries/$delivery_id/cancel", CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER =>…
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How to handle development for multiple customers of ours using the Postmates API

We would like to develop an app which can be used by multiple customers (of ours). Each app will be customized to each customer of ours. What we are unsure about is how to handle authentication keys and API keys? Do we create one set of these for…
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Parsing the result from the result - php

How can i get the value of fee in this response I am integrating the postman api in the php application, for that i am using a curl call from php, here is the code
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Postmates API Integration (Python)

I'm using Fareed's Python client for Postmates' API (https://github.com/far33d/py-postmates), but when I integrate it into my site, I get a Server Error (500). I'm using Django and Python, and my site is hosted on an AWS EC2 instance with an Apache2…
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