Extract Apple Maps/MapKit POI icons

apple-maps-poi-icons-extract.md

Extract Apple Maps/MapKit POI icons

You can download icons as of 5th April, 2025 in attached zip file. Download Apple Maps POI icons as zip archive

1. Go to https://duckduckgo.com/local.js?get_mk_token=1
2. Make a GET request to https://cdn.apple-mapkit.com/ma/bootstrap?apiVersion=2&mkjsVersion=5.78.158&poi=1 with Authorization: [previous response] header
3. From that response, parse json and find "accessKey" in it. It should look like this: 1743879209_3285637747132202088_/_gViGKMuzZNzmDskrn2ovwl0pl9XMsGcon7VsPG9kfmg=
4. Finally grab icons from their cdn using GET requests to https://cdn.apple-mapkit.com and access key in query

Example:

https://cdn.apple-mapkit.com/md/v1/icon?scale=2&subtype=poi&tint=dark&emphasis=standard&style=1&zoom=13&attributes=4:226,5:3,6:115,10:14,16:1,47:50,82:5,85:11,89:6,164:1,193:1&accessKey=1743875780_4578807989659320900_%2F_sfsG0vv9WUfbnNCBtCA210EMB0WHnPggaB1dEJOS1XM%3D

This will get you the biggest resolution icon of beer.

Reverse engineering needed cus I couldn't find how attributes are formed aside from the fact that they're called "style attributes" in mapkit javascript source code: https://duckduckgo.com/js/mapkit/mapkit.5.78.158.js

But this should get you started (see apple-maps-poi-icons-extract.ts)

apple-maps-poi-icons-extract.ts

import fs from "fs/promises"

const accessKey = '' // <-- paste your access key here

const max = 500
for (let i = 0; i < max; i++) {
  const scale = 3
  const id = i
  const imgReq = await fetch('https://cdn.apple-mapkit.com/md/v1/icon?scale=' + scale + '&subtype=poi&tint=dark&emphasis=standard&style=1&zoom=128&attributes=4:226,5:3,6:' + id + ',10:0,82:3,85:13,89:1,164:1,193:1&accessKey=' + encodeURIComponent(accessKey));
  if(imgReq.status !== 200) {
    console.log(await imgReq.text());
    console.log(`Error: ${imgReq.status}`);
    console.log(i)
    break
  }
  const content = Buffer.from(await imgReq.arrayBuffer())
  const hash = Bun.hash(content)
  const emptyIconHash = '14793898150699695213'
  if (hash.toString() !== emptyIconHash) {
    await fs.writeFile(`./icons/52x52/${id}.png`, content);
  }
  console.log(id, Math.round(i / max * 100) + '%')
}

// Run `mkdir ./icons && mkdir ./icons/52x52`
// Run with `bun apple-maps-poi-icons-extract.ts`

// This will skip empty icons

apple_maps_icons.zip