Users overview

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A user is a provider's user. They are the Attendees in chats.

Identifiers

Users have 2 identifiers:

  • A Provider internal ID, which is the ID used internally by the provider to identify the user and used in Unipile to reference attendees of resources. For exemple in Message object.

    • Linkedin (regular user) : Last part of the internal profile URL : linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAcDMMQBODyLwZrRcgYhrkCafURGqva0U4E
    • Linkedin (company) : upcoming
    • Whatsapp : [email protected] (The WhatsApp provider's internal ID is deterministic. You can test if a number has WhatsApp by using the GET /users/{identifier} route.)
    • Instagram: A sequence of numbers like 013456789 (You can get the Instagram provider’s internal ID from a username by using the GET /users/{identifier} route.)
    • Telegram: A sequence of numbers like 013456789 (You can get the Telegram provider’s internal ID from a username by using the GET /users/{identifier} route.)
    • X - Twitter : A sequence of numbers like 013456789 (You can get the X provider’s internal ID from a username by using the GET /users/{identifier} route.)

  • A Provider public ID, which is the public ID used by the users to share their profile. It can be found as:

    • Linkedin (regular user) : Last part of the public profile URL : linkedin.com/in/julien-crepieux
    • Linkedin (company) : Last part of the public profile URL : linkedin.com/company/unipile
    • Whatsapp : Phone number : 33600000000
    • Instagram: A username : unipile
    • Telegram: Phone number: 33600000000
    • X - Twitter: A username : @UnipileApp (with or without the @)

Attendees

Since it's impossible to sync the millions of users of a provider, Unipile only sync "know users" that we call Attendees.

They have an additional identifier, a Unipile ID, which is a unique ID used in Unipile to reference attendees of resources, for exemple in Group Participants.

Unipile consider users as known (therefore as Attendees) if you have a relation with them (through contacts or chats) so you can easily retrieve them from those relational elements. Therefore, they are one of the following

  • Contacts of the connected account (known as Relations in LinkedIn, known as Friends in Facebook)
  • Public non-contacts with whom the connected account has an existing chat
  • Public non-contacts who participate in the same groups as the connected account

Unknown Users

Unknown are all the rest:

  • Public non-contact without an existing chat
  • Private users

They become known (therefore a synced Attendee) as soon as you start a chat with them.

Updated 3 months ago