MadelineProto/old_docs/API_docs_v40/methods/contacts_resolveUsername.md

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title: contacts.resolveUsername
description: You cannot use this method directly, use the resolve_username, get_pwr_chat, get_info, get_full_info methods instead (see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info)
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## Method: contacts.resolveUsername  
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**You cannot use this method directly, use the resolve_username, get_pwr_chat, get_info, get_full_info methods instead (see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info)**
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`---`
Fixes to the documentation 2017-01-19 23:02:27 +01:00			`title: contacts.resolveUsername`
Documentation rework (#349) * Documentation rework * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Documentation fixes * Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Logging fixes * Build docs * Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion * Add TL documentator * Document MTProto methods * Documenting methods... * 7% documented * Bugfixes * Update docs * Update docs * Simplify file management * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback * Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media * Update docs * Document new file functions * Fix links * Fix links * Update bot.php to use event loop * Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop * Build docs * Better docs * Fixes to secret chats * Almost finished updating docs * Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs * Finish writing docs * Add automatic documentation builder script * Finished writing docs 2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00			`description: You cannot use this method directly, use the resolve_username, get_pwr_chat, get_info, get_full_info methods instead (see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info)`
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`---`
Fixes to the documentation 2017-01-19 23:02:27 +01:00			`## Method: contacts.resolveUsername`
Fixed update handling, now usernames or bot api ids can be passed as parameters instead of Peer, inputPeer, Channel, User (and other) objects, fixed bugs and typos. 2016-12-30 16:32:25 +01:00			`[Back to methods index](index.md)`


Documentation rework (#349) * Documentation rework * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Documentation fixes * Login as bot through web/cli API, allow using invite links in joinChannel, full invite links in importChatInvite and checkChatInvite, non-invite links in importChatInvite * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Logging fixes * Build docs * Add methods to modify start template, bugfix to logging and keyboard conversion * Add TL documentator * Document MTProto methods * Documenting methods... * 7% documented * Bugfixes * Update docs * Update docs * Simplify file management * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement automatic object conversion for media, and more awesome stuff * Implement event update handler and file upload/download callback * Auto-detect mime type, duration, width and height of media * Update docs * Document new file functions * Fix links * Fix links * Update bot.php to use event loop * Implement webhook update handler and forking in main loop * Build docs * Better docs * Fixes to secret chats * Almost finished updating docs * Bugfixes, implemented infinite loop for loop() method, almost finished docs * Finish writing docs * Add automatic documentation builder script * Finished writing docs 2018-03-20 12:48:05 +01:00			`You cannot use this method directly, use the resolve_username, get_pwr_chat, get_info, get_full_info methods instead (see https://docs.madelineproto.xyz for more info)`
Added custom TL exception trace, reduced memory usage, fixed fetching of dialog list 2017-07-26 08:30:48 +02:00