Retrieve a Node Followers List

You can use this API request to retrieve a paged list of FollowRelation (users) that are following a Node.

/services/v2/node/[nodeId]/followers.json

You can use the following parameters in your retrieve node followers list request:

Paging and Sorting: page, pageSize, sort
Projection: include, exclude, includeOnly
Other options: wrap, v1

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Permissions & Notes:

  • You must have the View users list permission under Anonymous Roles in the Advanced Editor.

  • When the details parameter is set as false (the default setting), the system only retrieves the follower information; the system does not return other relation information.

  • When the details parameter is set as true, the system returns a list of "FollowRelation*. Each FollowRelation entry models a social relation between a following user and the followed node.

  • When the active parameter is set as true (the default setting), the system only retrieves active relations.

  • When the active parameter is set as false, the system retrieves all relations (including those that are inactive).

  • With the includeOnly parameter set to id and name (/services/v2/node.json?includeOnly=id,name) to the AnswerHub REST API.

  • We added this request in version 1.6.3.

Sample Request

A GET retrieve node followers list request for a node (nodeId: 473) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:

curl 
-u answerhub:test123 
-H "Accept: application/json" 
-H "Content-type: application/json" 
-X GET "https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/node/473/followers.json"

Sample Response

{
    "name": "",
    "sort": "",
    "page": 0,
    "pageSize": 35,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "listCount": 2,
    "totalCount": 2,
    "list": [
        {
            "id": 7,
            "type": "user",
            "creationDate": 1542778947000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
            "modificationDate": 1549308072000,
            "username": "dzone",
            "slug": "dzone",
            "gold": 0,
            "silver": 0,
            "bronze": 2,
            "reputation": 54,
            "moderator": false,
            "superuser": true,
            "avatar": "http://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/users/7/photo/view.html",
            "postCount": 10,
            "followerCount": 0,
            "followCount": 0,
            "userFollowCount": 0,
            "active": true,
            "suspended": false,
            "deactivated": false,
            "groups": [
                {
                    "id": "5",
                    "creationDate": 1542778947000,
                    "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
                    "modificationDate": 1547066163000,
                    "name": "Super Users"
                },
                {
                    "id": "6",
                    "creationDate": 1542778947000,
                    "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
                    "modificationDate": 1547066174000,
                    "name": "Network Administrators"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": 11,
            "type": "user",
            "creationDate": 1545231253000,
            "creationDateFormatted": "12/19/2018 02:54 PM",
            "modificationDate": 1549059427000,
            "username": "answerhub",
            "slug": "answerhub",
            "gold": 0,
            "silver": 0,
            "bronze": 3,
            "reputation": 2,
            "moderator": false,
            "superuser": false,
            "avatar": "http://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/users/11/photo/view.html",
            "postCount": 3,
            "followerCount": 0,
            "followCount": 0,
            "userFollowCount": 0,
            "active": true,
            "suspended": false,
            "deactivated": false,
            "groups": [
                {
                    "id": "3",
                    "creationDate": 1542778947000,
                    "creationDateFormatted": "11/21/2018 05:42 AM",
                    "modificationDate": 1547066915000,
                    "name": "Users"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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