Get player id

Function Syntax

string get_player_id(string player )

Returns the user id number of a given player. If KoLmafia does not already know the player's id number, it will return the input string.

Code Sample

Get user id so that we can check the user's page for their current class.

class player_to_class( string player ) {
   string id = get_player_id( name );
   matcher classy = create_matcher( "Class:</b></td><td>(.+?)</td>", visit_url( "showplayer.php?who=" + id ) ); 
   if(find(classy))  
      return classy.group(1).to_class();
   return $class[none]; 
}

See Also

my_name() | my_id() | get_clan_id() | get_clan_name()