Webhook basic question

API
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Super basic question: Can a user_id have more than one user_names ?

For some reason I thought they were a one to one, but I’m starting to think that one user_id can have multiple user_names associate with it. Is that correct?

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A user can’t have multiple usernames. It is possible for a user to change their username but not have multiple at the same time.

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An email can be on multiple user_ids

But a user_id can only have one user_name and one display_name where the display_name can be different from the user_name

Not sure how this applies to your title/topic “Webhook basic question”?

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Well I was testing my code to subscribe to different users using the webhook, but then in my database I noticed two instance where two user names were assigned to the same user ID.

Here they are:

user_id: 139181164 contained 2 user_names:
nzurisana (https://www.twitch.tv/nzurisana says “Unless you’ve got a time machine, that content is unavailable”)
sana (https://www.twitch.tv/sana says “User Offline”)

Second example is
user_id: 237700531 contained 2 user_names
chayla_l (https://www.twitch.tv/chayla_l says “Unless you’ve got a time machine, that content is unavailable”)
colossalcake4 (https://www.twitch.tv/colossalcake4 says “User Offline”)

Am I to assume the “Unless you’ve got a time machine” user_names are old user_names that are dead and gone?

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My records indicate both of those users changed usernames recently

sana on the 5th August
colossal on the 28th August

Thats why New API/Helix focusses more on UserID, so you track that rather than the username which can change.

So both of those users have changed usernames. And you didn’t account for that

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How were you able to detect those changes?

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You already did.

And there are a few tools online that log the changes.

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hahahaha.

I guess you’re right.

Thanks for your help!

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