MadelineProto/old_docs/API_docs_v73/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)**
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			`title: contacts.resolveUsername`
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Http refactor (#307) * refactor * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Implement https and http transport, add support for new req_pq_multi, send pending acks and objects in containers along with the next method call, remove dependency on the socket extension. * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Make types with empty constructors optional, fix phar archives (fixes #217) * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Update to layer 75 * Update github pages gemfile.lock 2018-02-18 14:18:18 +01:00			`---`
			`## Method: contacts.resolveUsername`
			`[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)`
Http refactor (#307) * refactor * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Implement https and http transport, add support for new req_pq_multi, send pending acks and objects in containers along with the next method call, remove dependency on the socket extension. * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Make types with empty constructors optional, fix phar archives (fixes #217) * Apply fixes from StyleCI * Update to layer 75 * Update github pages gemfile.lock 2018-02-18 14:18:18 +01:00