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Is there an alternative to guid?

 

For example when linking to a cache I sometimes use ?wp=gcrh7x in the url instead of ?guid=5e9600b5-cca3-415b-a42f-04545dca8bef for obvious reasons.

 

Is there a "?wp=" for a user account?

 

I already have a field for geocaching on the forum I admin in the user's profile that links back to their profile here on geocaching.com. Problem is users have a hard time finding their guid. It would nice if there was a means to pass their caching name in the url rather than their guid.

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Yes, there is a way!

 

Hover over a username here in the forums. The number at the very end of the URL after the "id=" is your user ID. You can just instruct users to visit their profile, hover over the "See the forum posts for this user" link, then copy the digits from the end of that link.

 

Then, append that number to the end of this URL to link to their profile:

 

"http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id="

 

For example, yours looks like this:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=128064

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If you are looking for a geocacher you can use the following link:

 

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=weedboer

 

See my blog for other search plugins for IE7 and Firefox1.5+

 

Regards,

Hans

 

:huh: That's funny.... I tried that and it didn't work for me. But I think GC was having a "moment" and I was too disillusioned to think more deeply about it. That's perfect.

Thanks,

If you have spaces in your user name you need to replace them with a plus sign

 

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=Team+Four+Paw

 

Other special characters ! *'();:@&=+$,/?%#[]

may need to be encoded as %hh where hh is the hexadecimal ASCII value of the character

Edited by tozainamboku
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