# The unofficial Winterbash inbox API

If you have any user's `account_id` then the hats information is just one call away.

And the call is

    http://winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/api/inbox?accountId=<account_id>

For example, hats information about me can be retrieved via

[http://winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/api/inbox?accountId=4996787][1]

But here are the caveats:

- This is most probably a temporary API, so no idea how long it will work, or if it will change in between.
- <s>I have no idea whether it works with an API key or not, thus for now, it only works for yourself</s> It works for everyone who is participating in the WinterBash.


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To get any user's `account_id`, simply use the `/users` API.

For example, a sample API for PPCG with name search on `peter` is

    http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/users?order=desc&sort=reputation&inname=peter&site=codegolf&filter=!)RwcIFaJnzoLPrdy_GOamMlj

which gives the following output

    {
      "items": [
        {
          "account_id": 278703,
          "user_id": 194,
          "display_name": "Peter Taylor"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 262054,
          "user_id": 788,
          "display_name": "Peter Olson"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 4989165,
          "user_id": 31378,
          "display_name": "Peter Weistroffer"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 24885,
          "user_id": 8977,
          "display_name": "Peter Mortensen"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 23121,
          "user_id": 1852,
          "display_name": "Peter Lawrey"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 45792,
          "user_id": 833,
          "display_name": "PetersenDidIt"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 4284,
          "user_id": 842,
          "display_name": "peter"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 25835,
          "user_id": 1280,
          "display_name": "Peter Mourfield"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 3012,
          "user_id": 1441,
          "display_name": "Peter Hart"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 62463,
          "user_id": 1535,
          "display_name": "Peter Jaric"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 190859,
          "user_id": 1986,
          "display_name": "Peter DeWeese"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 15021,
          "user_id": 2019,
          "display_name": "peterchen"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 113435,
          "user_id": 2259,
          "display_name": "Peter Milley"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 130125,
          "user_id": 2648,
          "display_name": "Peter Smith"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 951403,
          "user_id": 3203,
          "display_name": "Peter John Acklam"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 130009,
          "user_id": 4617,
          "display_name": "Peter"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 13104,
          "user_id": 4648,
          "display_name": "Tony Peterson"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 8490,
          "user_id": 4871,
          "display_name": "Peter"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 31204,
          "user_id": 5419,
          "display_name": "Peter Smit"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 872850,
          "user_id": 6893,
          "display_name": "peter"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 349151,
          "user_id": 7927,
          "display_name": "Peter Majeed"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 25721,
          "user_id": 9002,
          "display_name": "Peter Gibson"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 211922,
          "user_id": 9036,
          "display_name": "Eric Peterson"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 104670,
          "user_id": 12672,
          "display_name": "PeterT"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 14690,
          "user_id": 12910,
          "display_name": "Peter Hosey"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 172638,
          "user_id": 13568,
          "display_name": "Peter Nixey"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 2799,
          "user_id": 13621,
          "display_name": "Peter Cooper"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 1988549,
          "user_id": 14149,
          "display_name": "Peter Horvath"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 2239333,
          "user_id": 14160,
          "display_name": "Peter Vasilev"
        },
        {
          "account_id": 1055603,
          "user_id": 14216,
          "display_name": "Peter W."
        }
      ]
    }


  [1]: http://winterbash2014.stackexchange.com/api/inbox?accountId=4996787