Viewing profiles

A profile is typically made up of a user's biographical information, and their posts.

info

To learn how to fetch a user's posts, see the Viewing feeds tutorial under "Author feeds."

Fetching a user's profile info

Typescript

To fetch a user's profile info, you can use the getProfile method.

agent.getProfile

const { data } = await agent.getProfile({ actor: 'did:plc:...' })
const { did, displayName, ... } = data

Python

To fetch a user's profile info, you can use the get_profile method.

agent.get_profile

data = client.get_profile(actor='did:plc:...')
did = data.did
display_name = data.display_name

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
actor	string	The DID (or handle) of the user whose profile you'd like to fetch	Yes

Fetching multiple profiles at once

Fetching multiple profiles is as easy as fetching a single profile:

Typescript

agent.getProfiles

const { data } = await agent.getProfiles({ actors: ['did:plc:...', ...] })
const { profiles } = data

Python

client.get_profiles

data = client.get_profiles(actors=['did:plc:...', ...])
profiles = data.profiles

Parameter	Type	Description	Required
actors	string[]	The DIDs (or handles) of the users whose profiles you'd like to fetch	Yes