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magpies22
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Members ID numbers

Post by magpies22 » 02 September 21 5:26 pm

Hello there...I am trying to solve a mystery puzzle that involves finding out the member ID numbers of a select bunch of Geocachers. I eventually found my own, which took a little while but have had absolutely no luck in looking for others. Does anyone out there have an answer?

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by caughtatwork » 02 September 21 5:49 pm

Are you looking for member numers of geocacher at geocaching.com or geocaching.com.au?

At Geocaching Australia you can look at the forum member list: memberlist.php
Then by going to their name alphabetically hover over their name and you will see a link to their forum profile.
e.g. memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=178684

178684 would be your member number. I assume that would be the member number you are looking for.

If you're looking at geocaching.com then I really don't know. You used to be able to see their forums in a similar way but that now seems to be restricted.

You could try going to their member page. e.g. https://www.geocaching.com/p/?id=230070 or https://www.geocaching.com/p/?u=caughtatwork same thing.

The click on View Forum Posts https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index. ... k/content/
230070-caughtatwork should tell you their member id.

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by magpies22 » 02 September 21 6:12 pm

Thanks for your reply. The member ID that I am looking for is the one from Geocaching.com , which I can find when looking at my own profile under account/settings. It's not the one you found from the forum. When I try other people's names, that number is hidden. I also tried all the links you provided but no good.
I appreciate you trying though!

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by Chwiliwr » 02 September 21 8:58 pm

Hi
On GC go to their public profile and then hover over the link 'View Forum Posts' and you would get a link like

'https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/profile/11077677-West%20Oz%20Geocaching/content/'

I believe the number after 'profile/' and before their name is the one you want.

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by magpies22 » 02 September 21 10:36 pm

Hi there. Thanks for your input. How do I find someone else's public profile? I read what you said but can't make it happen...

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Post by whitewebbs » 04 September 21 10:46 pm

I thought I would look and went to another cachers cache,clicked on their name and it bought up there page and from there I clicked on forum posts and saw a number in a link like mentioned in the last helpful post. I did it on my android phone as well as I thought it might be only through a compter. Handy info to know for puzzle caches.

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by magpies22 » 04 September 21 11:15 pm

Thanks for also having a go for me. Once again, I have tried what has been suggested but don't get a result. Can you give me a live example of a cache owner's name that I can also try, to see if it's just a setting problem for me? There are plenty of cachers that have never posted anything on the forum. I wonder if that is also an issue?

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by Chwiliwr » 05 September 21 8:19 am

Hi again
https://www.geocaching.com/p/?u=magpies22
Using your cacher name as an example the above is the format that you can use to get to a cachers profile by using their name instead of their UID which is way that the system does it when clicking on their cacher name in, say, a cache log.

When I did this I get the following when hovering over the link I mentioned in my previous post which gives your number as 32680354.
https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/profile/32680354-magpies22/content/
BTW it doesn't matter if they have never posted in the forums as the link is always there regardless. If you do happen to actually try the link for such a cacher all you get is a page that says 'We could not locate the item you are trying to view' which is what I get if I actually follow your profile link. The number is always visible in the URL regardless.

Another example is 'LittleJimmyR' ,(the owner of the last cache you logged), giving a number of 33366657

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Re: Members ID numbers

Post by magpies22 » 05 September 21 8:35 am

Terrific! Thanks heaps for your effort!

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