smartposti-tracker

An unofficial Python library and CLI for tracking SmartPosti (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Posti (Finland) parcels. It also watches parcels and tells you when new tracking events appear.

$ smartposti-track watch JJFI12345678901234567 --interval 300
NEW  JJFI12345678901234567  2026-10-29 06:46  The item is in sorting
NEW  JJFI12345678901234567  2026-10-29 11:02  The item has arrived at the parcel locker

Disclaimer. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Posti Group. It uses the same public endpoints as the tracking page on smartposti.ee, and they are not documented. They may change or stop working without notice. Please poll responsibly (every few minutes, not every second).

Features

• No browser needed. Plain HTTP via requests, with no Selenium or Playwright.
• Library first. Typed Shipment and Event models, and a small exception hierarchy.
• Watcher with pluggable parts. You choose where seen events are stored (memory, JSON file, or your own store) and what happens when one arrives (print, Telegram, email, webhook, and so on).
• CLI for quick lookups, and a --once mode for cron or Windows Task Scheduler.
• Localized events in en, et, fi, lv, lt.

Installation

pip install smartposti-tracker

For development:

git clone https://github.com/kuttim/smartposti-tracker.git
cd smartposti-tracker
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Requires Python 3.9+.

Command line

# Current status and full history
smartposti-track status JJFI12345678901234567

# Raw API response as JSON
smartposti-track status JJFI12345678901234567 --json

# Poll every 5 minutes and print only new events (Ctrl+C to stop)
smartposti-track watch CODE1 CODE2 --interval 300 --bell

# Check once and exit. Good for cron or Task Scheduler
smartposti-track watch CODE --once --state ~/.smartposti_state.json

# Events in Estonian
smartposti-track --locale et status CODE

python -m smartposti_tracker ... also works.

On the first watch check, existing events are only recorded, not reported. Pass --notify-existing to print them too.

Library usage

Look up a shipment

from smartposti_tracker import TrackingClient, ShipmentNotFound

client = TrackingClient(locale="en")

try:
    shipment = client.get_shipment("JJFI12345678901234567")
except ShipmentNotFound:
    print("No such parcel")
else:
    print(shipment.status)                    # "IN_TRANSPORT"
    for event in shipment.events:             # oldest first
        print(event.timestamp, event.description)
    print(shipment.latest_event)

shipment.raw and event.raw hold the original API data.

Watch for new events

from smartposti_tracker import JsonFileStore, Watcher

watcher = Watcher(store=JsonFileStore("state.json"))

@watcher.add_handler
def on_new_events(shipment, events):
    for e in events:
        print(f"{shipment.tracking_code}: {e.description}")

watcher.run(["JJFI12345678901234567"], interval=600)   # blocks
# or: watcher.check("CODE") -> list of new events, for your own scheduler

Extending

The library has three small, replaceable pieces:

Custom notifications

A handler is just a function. Here is one that posts to a webhook:

import requests

def to_webhook(shipment, events):
    requests.post("https://example.com/hook", json={
        "code": shipment.tracking_code,
        "status": shipment.status,
        "events": [{"time": e.timestamp.isoformat(), "text": e.description} for e in events],
    })

Watcher(handlers=[to_webhook]).run(["CODE"])

Custom storage

class RedisStore:
    def __init__(self, redis):
        self.r = redis

    def get_seen(self, code):
        # Return None if this code was never checked, so the first check stays silent
        if not self.r.exists(f"seen:{code}"):
            return None
        return {k.decode() for k in self.r.smembers(f"seen:{code}")}

    def set_seen(self, code, keys):
        pipe = self.r.pipeline()
        pipe.delete(f"seen:{code}")
        pipe.sadd(f"seen:{code}", "__checked__", *keys)
        pipe.execute()

Retries and proxies

import requests
from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter, Retry

session = requests.Session()
session.mount("https://", HTTPAdapter(max_retries=Retry(total=3, backoff_factor=2)))
client = TrackingClient(session=session)

Requesting more fields

The default query asks only for status and events. To get delivery details, pickup point, and similar data, pass your own GraphQL query that still returns consumerSearchShipments.hits, then read the extra fields from shipment.raw.

See examples/ for complete scripts, including a Telegram notifier and a SQLite store.

Running on a schedule

Linux/macOS (cron), every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * smartposti-track watch CODE --once --state $HOME/.smartposti_state.json >> $HOME/parcels.log

Windows (Task Scheduler):

schtasks /Create /SC MINUTE /MO 10 /TN "Parcel tracker" `
  /TR "smartposti-track watch CODE --once --state %USERPROFILE%\smartposti_state.json"

How it works

The smartposti.ee tracking page loads its data in the browser in two steps. This library repeats those two requests:

1. POST https://auth-service.posti.fi/api/v1/anonymous_token returns a short-lived anonymous id_token and a role_tokens[0].token. No account is needed.
2. POST https://graphql.posti.fi/graphql runs the consumerSearchShipments query, with authorization: <role token> and x-posti-token: Bearer <id_token>.

Tokens are cached until shortly before they expire. A 401 or 403 response causes a fresh token on the next call.

If Posti changes this flow, open the tracking page with your browser's dev tools open (Network tab, filter graphql) to see the new requests, then open an issue.

Development

pip install -e ".[dev]"
ruff check .
pytest                                         # offline, API is mocked
SMARTPOSTI_TEST_CODE=<code> pytest -m live     # optional real-API smoke test

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT