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Chapter 9. User Service

Table of Contents

Services
User information
Responses
User Auth Response (application/xml - ym:User)
guest
member
User Item Response (application/xml - ym:User)
member/guest

Services

User information

/item/current?appid=...&response=...

GET

Returns various user profile information, including the YMID, for the current user.

Requires BBAuth for authentication

Example: http://us.music.yahooapis.com/user/v1/item/current?appid=[yourapplicationidhere]

Responses: “User Item Response (application/xml - ym:User)”

Optional Parameters

Parameter Value Default / Possible values Description
response string Any of:

  • main (default)

    Basic user data.

  • profile

    General profile information.

  • ratingcounts:

    Counts of all user's ratings, for all rating types.

  • playlistcounts:

    Number of playlists the user owns, public and private.

  • premiuminfo:

    Premium information about user like user subscriptions, brandcodes etc.

 Comma-separated list of user response chunks to return. Default is main.