API does not support special characters

[OskarD]

Describe the bug Player names like these return status code 400:

• 環地平弧#3519
• ПАСУЛЯ#1474
• Немо#21207
• #2211 (This name doesn't even work in GitHub apparently, but it works in the game)
• Némesis#21732
• FunkMëMommy#2867
• Chérie#11430
• byuǃ#2931

To Reproduce Click on one of the links

Expected behavior Player profile

[TeKrop]

Hello !

Thank you for the report. Unfortunately, the API is using official Blizzard pages for data, and it seems the users can't be found on these. You can try yourself here : https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en_US/search/

I tried all the names you shared, and FunkMëMommy#2867 is actually the only one working for me 😅

Let me know if I can help you on anything else 👍

[OskarD]

Do the players/{player_id} endpoints do a search to find the profile, then get the information from the profile? I thought it somehow fetched it directly based on the battletag alone

[TeKrop]

Not directly, but it uses it to gather data about the last time a profile was updated, and the player namecard (which is not on the profile page).

I also noticed that if a profile can't be found in Blizzard search, it's not available if we try to use the url directly.

Are the profiles you're trying to use public ? If that's the case, I'm afraid I can't do anything to help on this issue 😕

[OskarD]

I don't know if they're public, I just know that I get that error back so I assume the API doesn't know yet

[TeKrop]

If profiles can't be found on Blizzard pages, the API won't be able to resolve them 😕 It can happen for private profiles, or sometimes for some public profiles for some reason. It's not related to special char issue, I already had this feedback a few months ago.

[OskarD]

Oh, weird! Thanks anyway :)