How do I use a unique displayname of a user to get his profile or playfabID ?

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xigmasuji asked Oct 12, '23

How do I use a unique displayname of a user to get his profile or playfabID ?

I would like to have the functionality in our game where users could use the display name(unique) to find other players. Could that be achieved ? (P.S : all player displaynames in our title are unique) So far I could not be able to find an API that would allow me to procure the MasterPlayerAccountId/PlayFabID using the display names(unique) or even the PlayerProfile if that is a possiblity, The end goal is to show the player's DisplayPicture and their Avatar URL when a player tries to search for another player.

Player Data apis unity3d multiplayer

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Answer 1 · 2023-10-13T03:13:42Z

Infer Wang answered Oct 13, '23

You can use this Api GetAccountInfo, put TitleDisplayName in your request body. The result contains PlayFabID ana AvatarUrl.

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xigmasuji commented · Nov 16, 2023 at 09:23 AM

Thank you it helps, but I would love to do this in our server, your suggestion is great but uses the Client API but I want something that uses Admin API or the Server API since I will be handling it in the server.

I tried the following code it did not work

         PlayFab.ServerModels.GetUserAccountInfoRequest request = new PlayFab.ServerModels.GetUserAccountInfoRequest
         {
             PlayFabId = "Theactualdisplayname"
         };
    
         PlayFabResult<PlayFab.ServerModels.GetUserAccountInfoResult> result = await serverAPI.GetUserAccountInfoAsync(request);

and this also

   PlayFab.ServerModels.GetPlayerProfileRequest  profileRequest = new PlayFab.ServerModels.GetPlayerProfileRequest
             {
                 PlayFabId = "Theactualdisplayname"
             };
    
         PlayFabResult<PlayFab.ServerModels.GetPlayerProfileResult> profileResult = await serverAPI.GetPlayerProfileAsync(profileRequest);

Neither of them worked kindly suggest me an API that I can use over the server that takes title name in the request of a player and gives back the avatar URL

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Answer 2 · 2023-11-15T07:10:31Z

xigmasuji answered Nov 15, '23

Thank you and a follow up question, I am trying to pull this off using Azure Servers and that would require me the

 PlayFabServerInstanceAPI api = new PlayFabServerInstanceAPI(
          new PlayFabApiSettings
          {
                  TitleId = context.TitleAuthenticationContext.Id,
                  DeveloperSecretKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PLAYFAB_DEV_SECRET_KEY", EnvironmentVariableTarget.Process)
          },
          new PlayFabAuthenticationContext
          {
              PlayFabId = context.CallerEntityProfile.Entity.Id,
              EntityToken = context.TitleAuthenticationContext.EntityToken
          }
      );

And there is no API in the PlayFabServerInstanceAPI that helps me set the TitleDisplayName of a player. Can you suggest me any for getting it I am using

      PlayFab.ServerModels.GetPlayerProfileRequest  profileRequest = new PlayFab.ServerModels.GetPlayerProfileRequest
      {
      PlayFabId = context.CallerEntityProfile.Lineage.MasterPlayerAccountId
      };
      PlayFabResult profileResult = await api.GetPlayerProfileAsync(profileRequest);

Even what you have suggested is using the ClientAPI not the server API I need help with this, appreciate if you guide me in the right way

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