user.show method stopped working

[Nickolai]

user.show method suddenly stopped working. When getting information it returns 500 error.

[Chris]

We have another thread going in the general channel about this. The API endpoint went down July 1, which makes me wonder if it was an unannounced deprecation.

[Chris]

Is there any other way to get the user's display name, then?

Hmm, I don't know your use case or app, but I do see that data available on public profile pages, inside the text content of h1#profileNameTopHeading – maybe you could scrape display names from the public profile page(s) for the short term.

[Nickolai]

The method is working again.