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Field

Represents a profile field as a name-value pair with optional verification.

    • Example
    • Required attributes
    • Optional attributes
    • See also

Example

    "fields": [
      {
        "name": "Website",
        "value": "https://trwnh.com",
        "verified_at": "2019-08-29T04:14:55.571+00:00"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sponsor",
        "value": "https://liberapay.com/at",
        "verified_at": "2019-11-15T10:06:15.557+00:00"
      },
      {
        "name": "Fan of:",
        "value": "Punk-rock and post-hardcore (Circa Survive, letlive., La Dispute, THE FEVER 333)Manga (Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Death Note, Shaman King)Platformers and RPGs (Banjo-Kazooie, Boktai, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles)",
        "verified_at": null
      },
      {
        "name": "Main topics:",
        "value": "systemic analysis, design patterns, anticapitalism, info/tech freedom, theory and philosophy, and otherwise being a genuine and decent wholesome poster. i'm just here to hang out and talk to cool people!",
        "verified_at": null
      }
    ],

Excerpt from Account[source]

Required attributes

name

Description: The key of a given field’s key-value pair.
Type: String
Version history: Added in 2.4.0

value

Description: The value associated with the name key.
Type: String (HTML)
Version history: Added in 2.4.0

Optional attributes

verified_at

Description: Timestamp of when the server verified a URL value for a rel=“me” link.
Type: String (ISO 8601 Datetime) if value is a verified URL. Otherwise, null
Version history: Added in 2.6.0

See also

  • Account#fields
  • Source#fields
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