How to Retrieve refId for User Profile

This page details how to retrieve the refId for a user profile.

Background

During user profile creation, you will receive four fields in the response:

{
    "status": "success",
    "title": "Digg It",
    "refId": "140b8709bd6ade099b242d895e268fb886130c53",
    "profileKey": "7TVRLEZ-24A43C0-NJW0Z82-F11984N"
}

It is important to securely store both the refId and profileKey in your system. The profileKey is used to make API requests for a specific user profile while the refId is how Ayrshare refers to that user profile during API calls.

RefId Retrieval

There are a couple ways to retrieve the refId for your user profiles.

1. Use the Get User Profiles endpoint to get all user profiles associated with the primary profile. Filter through each returned profile to find the refId associated with the title provided during user profile creation. (Note: The profileKey for each user profile is not returned from this endpoint, so you can’t associate the refId against an existing profileKey).

2. Navigate to the User Profiles page in the Ayrshare dashboard. Scroll through or search for the relevant user profile. You’ll be able to view the refId for the user profile here.