unique id rather than gamertag

Other Halo API Support
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Is there a way to link a spartan to a unique id rather than a gamertag? When people change their gamertag’s it tends to mess up my script.

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All Xbox Live Gamertags have a unique id called ‘XUID’ (Xbox User ID).

The public Halo API currently strips this information from the response (you might have seen that a lot of the responses have a null XUID property).

It’s possible to query a gamers XUID from the Xbox Live API but there is currently no official access (there are a few ways of going about it though).

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> All Xbox Live Gamertags have a unique id called ‘XUID’ (Xbox User ID).
>
> The public Halo API currently strips this information from the response (you might have seen that a lot of the responses have a null XUID property).
>
> It’s possible to query a gamers XUID from the Xbox Live API but there is currently no official access (there are a few ways of going about it though).

Bummer. I track weekly stats for my Spartan Company’s Achilles progression, and every time someone changes their gamertag it mucks it up, and then I have to figure out which of the 100 members has a new name.

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> > 2753093343646559;2:
> > All Xbox Live Gamertags have a unique id called ‘XUID’ (Xbox User ID).
> >
> > The public Halo API currently strips this information from the response (you might have seen that a lot of the responses have a null XUID property).
> >
> > It’s possible to query a gamers XUID from the Xbox Live API but there is currently no official access (there are a few ways of going about it though).
>
> Bummer. I track weekly stats for my Spartan Company’s Achilles progression, and every time someone changes their gamertag it mucks it up, and then I have to figure out which of the 100 members has a new name.

TBH it has to be a bit of an edge case; gamertag changes aren’t that common. You could provide a way for a user to sign in and relink their gamertag?

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> > 2533274829664406;3:
> > > 2753093343646559;2:
> > > All Xbox Live Gamertags have a unique id called ‘XUID’ (Xbox User ID).
> > >
> > > The public Halo API currently strips this information from the response (you might have seen that a lot of the responses have a null XUID property).
> > >
> > > It’s possible to query a gamers XUID from the Xbox Live API but there is currently no official access (there are a few ways of going about it though).
> >
> > Bummer. I track weekly stats for my Spartan Company’s Achilles progression, and every time someone changes their gamertag it mucks it up, and then I have to figure out which of the 100 members has a new name.
>
> TBH it has to be a bit of an edge case; gamertag changes aren’t that common. You could provide a way for a user to sign in and relink their gamertag?

Tell that to the pros lol