This should definitely help with our planning! Free wait times and FP returns!

[Magpie]

EasyWDW just posted this:

http://www.easywdw.com/site-news/free-live-disney-world-wait-times-and-fastpass-return-times/

It's in "Stage 1" of development, but it looks pretty good. For those of you with wait time aps, how does it match up?

 

[Maleficent's Dad]

Gotta love Josh - great stuff! .

 

[tyzzle]

Love it...can't wait to use it

 

[jenn3456]

this looks awesome! I am very excited!

 

[andyman8]

I'd had a feeling a thread about this would show up. I was thinking about started it but figured I'd let someone else have the umm...pleasure.

 

[kgsmith]

I love this! It loads instantaneously. (Although I'm beginning to think anything loads faster than Disney's MDE app )

I'll definitely be using this on our next trip.

 

[Lorilais_mommie]

Nice!

 

[Magpie]

I'd had a feeling a thread about this would show up. I was thinking about started it but figured I'd let someone else have the umm...pleasure.

It was a pleasure, actually. It's nice to be able to share something useful with people.

 

[amomma23]

Fantastic!

 

[jimim]

great job. nice and to the point. no eyecandy that isn't needed to make the loadup time increase. keep it simple!

 

[CandleontheWater]

excuse my ignorance, but how is this different from the MDE app? Doesn't that also have wait times? Is this new app more accurate?

 

[chartle]

excuse my ignorance, but how is this different from the MDE app? Doesn't that also have wait times? Is this new app more accurate?

Its faster and its a webpage so even BlackBerries could use it.

I do think though that it the same data. Hence the last line of the article.

As far as how it works, thats between me and Mickey.

 

[gretchenohar@hotmail]

Thanks!

 

[mom2rtk]

Doesn't the MDE app just give you the info for the park you are in? Maybe this has the advantage of being able to see any of the parks before you're there.

Do we know if it's actual data or if it's user reported, line the Lines app?

 

[notnothin]

Do we know if it's actual data or if it's user reported, line the Lines app?

Those details haven't been revealed but it seems to be scraping data from Disney.

 

[chartle]

1. Doesn't the MDE app just give you the info for the park you are in? Maybe this has the advantage of being able to see any of the parks before you're there.

2. Do we know if it's actual data or if it's user reported, line the Lines app?

1. No that was the old Official Disney App.

2. I'm thinking the website "borrows" the data from the real Disney App.

 

[diskids2]

Just loaded it quickly. Great stuff!

 

[chartle]

Those details haven't been revealed but it seems to be scraping data from Disney.

I somehow think thats why in the first app, Mobile Magic (?), you could only get times when you were in that park. Like it was some sort of security.

Though I'm quite sure you can fool/hack a smartphone into thinking its anywhere on the planet.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Where does he get his data from? Does Disney have web services and an API to access their information?

 

[chartle]

Where does he get his data from? Does Disney have web services and an API to access their information?

I seriously doubt this. That data is very valuable to Disney so I don't think they are giving it away.

I'm not an expert, but it could be something like a phone running a program that intercepts the data that is sent to MDE or there is something running on a PC that emulates a smartphone and then passes that info to a web server.

This is very similar to the way we used to get milage between two locations for our website. We would goto Rand McNally.com do a route and then grab the milage number off of the returned page. They must have figured that people were doing this and changed their page so that data was now image data. Of course now we use a Google API that does it all on the up and up.

In the same light it may be possible for Disney to shut this down somehow.