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Pokevision stopped working because they banned the whole ec2 IP range.

I believe you, so please don't take this is a challenge. It's pure curiosity that prompts me to ask: Do you have a source for more info on this IP range ban?

One source is a GitHub issue for one of the popular open source Pokémon Maps -- https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map/issues/2777 . AWS/Heroku/Azure/DigitalOcean (mostly) seem to be banned.

The pokemongo dev forums on reddit have been compiling a list of known hosts that will result in a 403 response code when an api call is requested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/comments/4vhygk/vps_pr...

And added scanning rate limits.

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