UserID from Username?

[ghost]

Is there currently an API method I am not seeing or undocumented that makes it available to get a User ID from the Username? I don't really want to expose the id for internal app links.

[jdolitsky]

Is that really a security issue? The follow button on the alpha site has a "data-user-id" attribute.

I still need to add the wrappers for all of the following/followers calls. Once those are there, if you're only dealing with a persons followers it might be easy to mine through that response for usernames on the backend. I don't think there is a specific call though

[ralfr]

There's not. Maybe worth an Issue over at the api-spec repo?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:30 PM, hxf148 notifications@github.com wrote:

Is there currently an API method I am not seeing or undocumented that makes it available to get a User ID from the Username? I don't really want to expose the id for internal app links.

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[jdolitsky]

ok just added a workaround function for you @hxf148 . Uses CURLOPT_USERAGENT to act as browser and gets the userId from the html returned by https://alpha.app.net/username

// should return 1365
echo $app->getIdByUsername('jdolitsky');

[ghost]

thanks!!

[jdolitsky]

not a problem :)