Question: how to fetch information about a user #821
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Hi, For my bot, I republish changes that have been made on OpenStreetMap automatically and I do ping people if they have their Mastodon set on OpenStreetMap. However, I don't want to ping people who indicate that they don't like bots. They do this by setting the "no-bot"-field on their profile. However, I'm struggling to fetch the profile of a user. I tried What am I doing wrong? |
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According to the Mastodon doc:
Therefore the If you don't know the ID of the target account or don't want to hard-code the ID, you might be able to use const acct = await masto.v1.accounts.lookup({
acct: '@mastodon@mastodon.social',
});
console.log(`ID: ${acct.id}`);I hope this helps |
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Thanks! I initially used |
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According to the Mastodon doc:
Therefore the
idparameter is the ID of the account which is different from a username. It consists of 18 digits of integer and should look like109385598812984542. The value is different in each instance because each instance has its own database.If you don't know the ID of the target account or don't want to hard-code the ID, you might be able to use
v1.accounts.lookupfor getting a profile from the username. c.f.I hope this h…