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Public API for accessing osu! related data.
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Beatmap creator id #153

Open Syriiin opened 7 years ago

Syriiin commented 7 years ago

Currently the get_beatmaps endpoint only provides the map creator name, which is based on the when they made the map rather than their current name. It would be a lot more useful if creator_id was also returned.

My use case for this (and reason for asking) is that in regards to osu!chan, I have received a lot of messages from users asking me to fix mappers such as "monstrata" and "Monstrata" being counted as separate mappers; however this isn't possible (unless I scrape beatmap pages for links) for mappers who had a name change that is more than just capitalisation.

christopher-dG commented 7 years ago

Bump, my bot links to https://osu.ppy.sh/u/CreatorName but that doesn't work in cases such as this where the mapper has since changed their name.

LtLi0n commented 6 years ago

same issue too, frustrating and code-breaking :(

christopher-dG commented 6 years ago

You can scrape the website for the ID (there's a link to the mapper that displays the old name but links to the user ID) but it's discouraged.