GET community/get-community-id?community_short_name={community_short_name}

Gets the identifier of a community by its short name

Request Information

Headers

HTTP_AUTHORIZATION: Required. OAuth 1.0 parameters with the OAuth signature of the url you are going to request. The consumer keys and access token can be obtained from the community administration.

Sample: 
        HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:
            OAuth oauth_token="CObXqjfOisVh9%2F2GjC7NNd8BCzY%3D",
            oauth_consumer_key="clGACsiGaMp%2FD%2BUwkSvRBxA1k50%3D",
            oauth_nonce="VqKza6d5x1HpPQWFe08spbdOnkTQpfaLfD9Oeuyg",
            oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
            oauth_timestamp="1462882011",
            oauth_signature="RH5aKKKJaEvK5cIsZZzXtFh7cCk%3D"

URI Parameters

NameDescriptionTypeAdditional information
community_short_name

Short name of the community

 string

Required

Request Formats

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Sample: 
community_short_name=developers

Response Information

Resource Description

DescriptionType

Returns the identifier of the community

 Guid

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample: 
"9f4b28d5-68a6-4081-92f4-bde442477f84"

Response HTTP status code

On success, the response contains 200 code.

On fail, throws a WebException with code:

  • 401 Unauthorized if the OAuth signature is invalid
  • 400 Bad Request if the params are invalid
  • 500 Internal server error if something goes wrong...