Finding COORD.INFO short url for profile

[+coreyshep]

I am getting some cards printed up and I would like to include the coord.info link to my profile on the back. Where can I find this? I know where to get them for caches, and I see them in watchlist emails for logs, trackables, and user profiles. Basically, I'd like to know how to find mine. I did a forum search, but searching for coord, info, link, and profile in any combination returns a plethora of unhelpful results.

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

[+tango501]

On cache listing page hover your mouse over GC#

right click and save short url

 

long url is up in address bar depending on which browser you are using

[+GeoBain]

I'm not sure that's possible.

 

If you go to http://coord.info it tells you about cache pages, waymarks, and trackables. I see nothing about your profile page.

[+GeoBain]

Just a thought. If you just want a short link for the back of your cards, you can go to http://bit.ly and paste in

http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?id=4299862

to generate a short code for your profile.

 

Or use this one that I just generated for your profile.

 

http://bit.ly/pxqL32

[+coreyshep]

Well if I dropped off someone's travel bug at another cache, they may receive an email with the details. One of those details would by a link to my profile in coord.info form. Didn't know if there was a way to find it otherwise. I considered bit.ly, but the coord.info somewhat preserves the spirit of the Geocaching brand. Oh well. I may just email a person before I drop off their travel bug and ask them to forward me the emails they get

[+coreyshep]

Nevermind. I went through gmail and found an email I had sent to another user and my coord.info url was at the bottom of the copy I received. http://coord.info/PR53455

 

Doh!

 

Thanks for the pointers, though.

[+GeoBain]

I've never paid attention to that. Good to know. Thanks.

[+dfx]

For future reference:

 

The coord.info shortcut URLs for profiles follow the same scheme as the GC numbers. I think there's an online calculator somewhere, but FizzyCalc does it also. Convert your user ID (4299862) to a GC code, which gives you GC53455. Take off the "GC" and replace it with "PR". Use that in coord.info context. Voila, http://coord.info/PR53455

[+Ambient_Skater]

long url is up in address bar depending on which browser you are using

I think the address goes in the address bar no matter which browser you use.

[+Redfist]

It's nice to have an excuse to download FizzyCalc.exe.

 

Thanks.

[+robd0gg]

old thread, but always wondered why GC hq has hidden the pathing to their users.. must be out of fear of exploting, stalking etc... but heck, Facebook and every other online social site has an easy way for it's members to get a link to their own profile page..

[+Chrysalides]

old thread, but always wondered why GC hq has hidden the pathing to their users.. must be out of fear of exploting, stalking etc... but heck, Facebook and every other online social site has an easy way for it's members to get a link to their own profile page..

Your own profile is always accessible (once you're logged in) on http://www.geocaching.com/my/

 

Your public profile is http://www.geocaching.com/profile

 

Public profile of any username can be accessed by adding "?u=<username>" and replace any spaces with "+". For example : http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?u=robd0gg

[Keystone]

Since your coord.info profile shortcut link appears at the bottom of the notification email for every log you enter on Geocaching.com, Groundspeak is doing a horrible job of keeping it hidden. If you can't parse out your link code, enter a log on a cache you own or put a cache on watchlist before logging it.

Edited June 10, 2014 by Keystone

[+The A-Team]

old thread, but always wondered why GC hq has hidden the pathing to their users.. must be out of fear of exploting, stalking etc... but heck, Facebook and every other online social site has an easy way for it's members to get a link to their own profile page..

Geocaching profile pages aren't visible to unregistered users, so there simply isn't as big a demand for such a link as there would be for those social media sites.

[+UniQP]

I just found a solution that works for every profile:

 

1. Open the public profile of the person. Example: https://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=3623cefd-d85e-4251-a9a9-819df6ee3a82
   
2. There is a link "See the Forum Posts for This User", which has a URL that ends with "mid=...". Example: mid=4299862
   
3. Convert the mid into a GCCode using http://www.geocachingtoolbox.com/index.php?page=gcCodeIdConversion . Example: GC53455
   
4. Replace "GC" with "PR" (as already mentioned above). Example: PR53455
   
5. Prepend "http://coord.info/". Example: http://coord.info/PR53455
   

[+HeppyShark]

It dosn`t work

[+MKFmly]

Just did it, UniQP's instructions worked fine.

[+ištván]

Also using UniQP's instruction. Thanks!

[+HHL]

Gsak users may try this:

#*******************************************
# MacVersion = 0.3
# MacDescription = Create Short Profile Url
# MacAuthor = HHL
# MacFileName = PRCoordInfo.gsk
# MacUrl =
#*******************************************

	$PR = NumToGsCode($d_OwnerId)
	$CoordInfo = "http://coord.info/PR" + "$PR"
	
	Clip Data=$CoordInfo

	IF YesNo(" The PR CoordInfo Url for user »$d_OwnerName« is: $_CrLf $_CrLf $CoordInfo  $_CrLf $_CrLf Url is clipped.$_CrLf Open the profile page now?")
	WEB Url="$CoordInfo"
	ENDIF

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