Pull live vehicle telemetry using the Samsara vehicle statistics feed API with cursor-based pagination

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Steps

  1. Authenticate to the Samsara API using an API token with the appropriate vehicle read scopes for your organization
  2. Make an initial call to the vehicle stats feed endpoint to retrieve the most recent stats snapshot for all vehicles and capture the endCursor returned in the response
  3. On subsequent calls, pass the endCursor as a query parameter to retrieve only new or updated stat records since the last call, implementing an efficient polling loop
  4. Select the specific stat types you need (for example, GPS location, engine state, odometer, fuel percent) by specifying them in the types parameter to limit response payload size
  5. Process each vehicle stat record, extracting the vehicle ID, stat type, value, and time fields, and write to your telemetry store with idempotent upsert logic keyed on vehicle ID and timestamp
  6. Tune your polling interval based on the data freshness requirements of your use case while respecting Samsara API rate limits documented in the developer portal

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