publiclab/mapknitter

Calling API to retrieve user profile location map from PublicLab.org

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#626 opened on May 21, 2019

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Description

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I'm going through PublicLab's API documentation in order to pull a user profile "location map" to display on their mapknitter profile. Looking at the documentation, I can't seem to find what will help achieve that. I'm not returning any profile information when I search for a username that exists. Am I missing something? Will the API not return profile information? Any help is greatly appreciated. Even in the web interface ("https://publiclab.org/api/docs"), I get the same response which you'll see below: image

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https://github.com/publiclab/plots2/blob/master/doc/API.md

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parker_rose

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Investigate the user profile API endpoint to determine why it returns empty results for existing users. Check the controller and serializer.
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ruby
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