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HI
I am trying to get the user profile details and i am getting some details except yahoo ID ,
Here yahoo user ID is very important for my app.
All other service providers giving their users id except yahoo.

Please help out from this problem.

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  • Hi,

    We provide a "GUID" or Globally Unique ID (http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api...ices-guids.html). Every Yahoo user has a GUID but it isn't the same as their Yahoo ID (YID).

    The reason this was done was to protect user email account and help prevent potential phishing vectors. This means that the YID is not available from the Contacts API.

    There are still ways to identify users and send them email. If you can tell us exactly what you want to achieve maybe we can better help you do it.

    Thanks,

    Tom
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  • If you want to collect the user guid, I would suggest using the connections instead of the contacts. Connections are the two way reciprocated contacts and will provide a much richer data set.

    Jon
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  • QUOTE (sh1mmer @ Jan 2 2009, 12:05 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hi,

    We provide a "GUID" or Globally Unique ID (http://developer.yahoo.com/social/rest_api...ices-guids.html). Every Yahoo user has a GUID but it isn't the same as their Yahoo ID (YID).

    The reason this was done was to protect user email account and help prevent potential phishing vectors. This means that the YID is not available from the Contacts API.

    There are still ways to identify users and send them email. If you can tell us exactly what you want to achieve maybe we can better help you do it.

    Thanks,

    Tom


    thanks for your reply,

    Finally is there any other options to get user yahoo id with out asking him,
    I need to take his yahoo id as a user id for my app.
    I think guid is nothing for me,i had all the user infomation with out their yahoo id what is the use of this information
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  • The GUID is the new identifier for the user's profile on profiles.yahoo.com (and currently for many properties on Yahoo!). Depending on what you're actually doing for your app, and what properties you're accessing, you may be able to use the GUID and YQL to capture the data that you want. If you have more details about what you're trying to do we may be able to assist to get you up and running.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Senior Software Engineer
    Yahoo! Developer Network

    QUOTE (narasimha k @ Jan 2 2009, 08:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    thanks for your reply,

    Finally is there any other options to get user yahoo id with out asking him,
    I need to take his yahoo id as a user id for my app.
    I think guid is nothing for me,i had all the user infomation with out their yahoo id what is the use of this information
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