#1

I am having a strange issue, if I make a request to the user by username lookup , the response is giving me the wrong account if there is an account by the same name which starts with an underscore.

E.g. a request for ‘AGT’ is returning the account _A_G_T, and a request for ConnieTalbot is returning the account _Connie_Talbot

Is anyone else seeing this?!

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#2

Either I am doing something very funky in my code or this is a HUGE issue…

#3

That’s very strange - what library / language are you working with? Do you have a code sample? Is there any URL encoding of parameters happening?

Testing with twurl i can’t reproduce this:

twurl "/2/users/by/username/ConnieTalbot"

{ 
  "data": {
    "id": "116024420",
    "name": "Connie.",
    "username": "ConnieTalbot"
  }
}

twurl "/2/users/by/username/_Connie_Talbot"

{
  "data": {
    "id": "245404457",
    "name": "Connie Talbot",
    "username": "_Connie_Talbot"
  }
}
#4

This is very odd. I am in PHP. If I make the request with a pure Guzzle GET request it works fine.

If I use codebird, it does the funky behavior above. It must be an API issue, because there’s no way it should be providing me these random accounts!

Will keep digging.

#5

Wow, it was a weird codebird issue. Crisis averted.

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#6

Cool, did you report this to Codebird maintainers? Thanks for sharing the resolution!

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