GUID to API ID mapping?

You can pass GUIDs to the api by prefixing them with a 'g'.

For example /api/profile-g4526932894380070385 would return your profile.

We added documentation for this 'feature' http://dev.geni.com/

Awesome, thanks guys.

Awesome, thanks!

Do you have an option to go the other way?

I am working on a desktop app and want to fire up my browser for a specific profile using the id profile-1294997 to open Private User

I know I can load the profile first to get the guid.

Not at this time. Sorry.

A minor update:
The API profile record does now include a profile_url value pointing to the Geni web profile.

Using geni.com/profile-<node-ID> does also work now, i.e geni.com/profile-1294997

Private User, what is the user_id and how do I get it? I know my GUID, which is 5685693775440034593, and I know my profile id, which is profile-16675621, but apparently, I also have a user_id which is 1771709. The user_id is used in the Actions menu for Revisions and the Histogram. How do I get this user_id number from the API?

Also, is there any way to identify a user is a curator via the API?

Private User The user_id is an internal id that we're not exposing through the API at this time.

Private User - Thanks, - if I remember correctly you once said that the api/user-xxx references in the Api should be replaced by profile-Id's?

BTW: I get randomly Internal server errors (500) when trying to process: https://www.geni.com/api/projects - probably because of timeouts when the description parts are large.

Scott, Mike, if you have a reply to that deleted post, PM me on it.

Jeff, the page you asked about is not accessible via the API and wasn't designed to perform with the frequency that an automated process would likely demand.

The frequency that I was thinking wouldn't be any more than once an hour.

I doubt we have the time to put this in the API, but you can fetch the data directly by calling the same URL with "_data" at the end of the action, i.e. "...ogram_data?user_id=nnnn"

Ya, that's what I'm currently doing. Problem is.. it requires the browser cookie and stuff. I'm having difficulty doing it from a python query on a hosted web server.

Private User

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