Retrieving basic member profile info

[James]

I'm working on an integration project and need to retrieve basic profile info for a specific authenticated user. User.show is working great for that, it just gives me back WAY more info than I need. Is there an alternative method (or filtering option) that doesn't return the users bookshelf and updates?

Thanks,
James

[Michael]

I think we have a call that returns just their id.

For the moment, is it that hard to ignore the stuff you don't need?

[James]

Hi, Michael. Yes, I used the auth.user method in order to get the id first, and that call does return a little extra info (which I could not find documented anywhere, BTW), but it doesn't return user_name.

Ignoring the stuff I don't need on the user.show call is no big deal. It's just a waste of bandwidth and slows down the call unnecessarily.

Thanks for your response,
James

[Michael]

What stuff do you need?

[James]

What I had in mind was something more like a user.profile call, which would just have the core profile elements from user.info -- similar to Twitter's account/verify_credentials call. It would not have status updates, reviews, bookshelves, or any other "array" elements that I could get later through some other API call.

This part of the integration is just to link accounts between the sites, so I don't need much ancillary info.

[Michael]

I'll try and work on something.