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<p dir="auto">The web interface prefers to work with usernames while the api prefers user ids. For example you need a user id for <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6#Details_of_a_user:_GET_/api/0.6/user/#id" rel="nofollow">user details</a>. When you know a username and want to get the corresponding id through the api, you typically do a changeset search by the username and get the id from the search results. It's only difficult to do if the user has no contributions, but then, if it's a genuine user and not a pre-blocked vandal account, there has to be a problem with their contributions and changesets (or notes) searchable by the username exist.</p>

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