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#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

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.
• I have no idea whether it works with an API key or not, thus for now, it only works for yourself It works for everyone who is participating in the WinterBash.

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."
    }
  ]
}