User ID

[scratchyone]

How could I get a user name from a user ID, and a user id from a username? The getUser function returns null. Thanks!

[philliphenslee]

If using a username it would look something like this....

client.users.getUser('phil', function (err, result) {
        console.log(result.id);
    });

[scratchyone]

Thanks! How would I get a name from an id?

[philliphenslee]

The same way, like this...

client.users.getUser('U0BC6D9V1', function (err, result) {
console.log(result.name);
});

[philliphenslee]

If you will log the entire result variable you can see the data that is accessible using result.fieldname

Hope this helps...

[scratchyone]

Thanks! Great job on this module. I will close this unless I have any issues

[philliphenslee]

Thanks for the feedback and glad I could help.

[scratchyone]

Hmm.

client.users.getUser('U0BC6D9V1', function (err, result) {
console.log(result.name);
});

returns result as null
I am using an ID from my room

[philliphenslee]

For your room?

Write client.users to the console and see if you see your userid in the output.

Example:

var client = new SmartSlack(options);

// Login to Slack
client.start();

client.on('connected', function () {
    client.users.getUser('U0BC6D9V1', function (err, result) {
        console.log(result);
        console.log(client.users);
    });

[scratchyone]

That worked!

[scratchyone]

Thanks!

[scratchyone]

It seems like the user IDs I used were invalid.

[philliphenslee]

Are you may have been calling it before the data was available in the cache. Glad you got it working.

[scratchyone]

It looks like I was looking for message.user, instead of message.bot_id